We are committed to amplifying the voices of Pan-African artists through a curated platform of exhibitions and international art fairs. Please be in touch should you like to attend or would like more information.
Current & Upcoming
Unfinished Lines
Minnesota Street Project, Dogpatch, San Francisco
Unfinished Lines brings together four painters — Papytsho Mafolo, Hussein Salim, Pascal Konan and Aza Mansongi — from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire, on the ways a work refuses to close. A participating exhibition in Nexus: SF / Bay Area Black Art Week, 30 September – 4 October 2026.
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Atlanta Art Fair
Pullman Yards, Atlanta
AOCA is proud to participate in Atlanta Art Fair, Booth E13, presenting nine artists from Africa and its diaspora: Esther Mahlangu, Clint Strydom, Knox Clayton, Pascal Konan, Alexis Daniel Onguene Tassi, Oscar Mawuli, Samuel Allerton, Carol Cauldwell and Opa Bathily.
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The Real Heroes
The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg
Clint Strydom's acclaimed black-and-white series — children playing soccer with pure devotion on beaches, township grounds, and improvised fields across South Africa, ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. FIFA Football World Cup fine art photographic limited edition prints.
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A Continent, Up Close
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
A Continent, Up Close — Directors' Selection brings together sixteen artists working across painting, photography, sculpture and works on paper, from eight countries across the Continent and the Diaspora, in an exhibition of works made to be lived with — chosen personally by the gallery's directors for the intimacy of the encounter they invite. Scale changes how we look. A monumental canvas commands a room; a small work draws you toward it. It asks to be approached, held in the eye at arm's length, returned to daily. These are works made for the lived space, where art becomes a companion rather than an occasion. Across the exhibition, the concerns are anything but small: memory and migration, spirit and street, pattern, light and play. Alexis Daniel Onguene Tassi, whose work featured in Memory in Motion, continues that exhibition's conversation in a new register, joined by voices ranging from the luminous abstraction of Paul Blomkamp to Clint Strydom's photographic poetry, Hussein Salim's chromatic fields and Carol Cauldwell's irreverent sculptural wit. Sixteen artists, eight countries, one continent, in works made to be lived with. Featured Artists: Opa Bathily · Ayanda Mabulu · Carol Cauldwell · Mark Chapman · Gerald Chukwuma · Dieudonne Djiela Kamgang · Ange Arthur Koua · Oscar Korbla Mawuli Awuku · Denis Mubiru · Ndabuko Ntuli · Gavin Rain · Hussein Salim · Andre Stead · Clint Strydom · Mederic Turay · Samuel Allerton
Memory in Motion
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
A major group exhibition curated by Gilles Yoro (Felin Light). Memory in Motion brings together a dynamic group of contemporary African artists whose practices traverse time, geography, and materiality to explore the fluid construction of identity.
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San Francisco Art Fair
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco
AOCA presented at the San Francisco Art Fair with a selection of works by our stable of Pan African contemporary artists.
Inaugural Opening of AOCA — AFROPOP
Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
The much anticipated official opening of our gallery in San Francisco; featuring Samuel Allerton, Esther Mahlangu, Ayanda Mabulu, Clint Strydom, Aza Mansongi, Carol Cauldwell, Papytsho Mafolo, Mederic Turay and many more.
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Art Palm Beach
Palm Beach County Convention Centre
AOCA debuts at Art Palm Beach with a powerful selection of works including Gavin Rain, Clint Strydom, Esther Mahlangu, Carol Cauldwell and Samuel Allerton.
LA Art Show
LA Convention Centre
AOCA debuts at The LA Art Show with a powerful selection of works by our stable of Pan African Contemporary artists.
SCOPE, Miami — Resonant Realities
South Beach, Miami
AOCA | The Melrose Gallery presents Resonant Realities — Dr. Esther Mahlangu, Ayanda Mabulu, Paul Blomkamp, bronzes by Samuel Allerton and Carol Cauldwell. Clint Strydom debuted his Miami collection from Ain't that America.
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Atlanta Art Fair
Atlanta
Featuring Ayanda Mabulu, Dr. Esther Mahlangu, Clint Strydom photography and bronzes by Samuel Allerton and Carol Cauldwell.
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1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, New York
New York
Featuring a strong photographic selection by Clint Strydom and Mohau Modikaseng along with vessels by Dr. Esther Mahlangu, and paintings by Pascal Konan.
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Expo Chicago
Chicago
Featuring Ayanda Mabula, Mederic Turay, Pascal Konan, Samuel Allerton, Carol Cauldwell, Esther Mahlangu, Noria Mabasa, Clint Strydom.
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Cape Town International Art Fair
Cape Town
Play as Praxis, curated by Mpumi Mayisa. Featuring Aza Mansongi, Esther Mahlangu, Pascal Konan, Papythsha Mafolo, Willie Bester and Clint Strydom.
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1-54 London Art Fair
London
Proudly presenting a solo show by Dr. Esther Mahlangu.
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