News and Events
Fathi Hassan is included in the exhibition Arabicity: Such a Near East, curated by Rose Issa at The Blue Coat, Liverpool, July 2rd - September 5th, 2010. The exhibition is presented in partnership with the award winning Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival, an annual celebration of Arabic Arts and Culture.
Bernard Guillot is included in a group show Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, June 10th - September 27th, 2010, curated by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp at the Museo Naconal Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
Aime Mpane is in a group exhibition 'Perceptions" curated by Alite Thijsen at Glazenhuis Amstelpark, Amsterdam, Holland, June 6th - 27th, 2010.
Sumayyah Samaha is in a solo exhibition Aesthetics: Art and Politics at the Art Circle Beirut, Lebanon through June 24th, 2010
Works by Aime Mpane (Lots 6 and 7), Wosene Worke Kosrof (Lot 99), Souleymane Keita (Lot 123) and Olu Amoda (Lot 126) are included in the AFRICA auction by Phillips de Pury New York 2010, May 15th, 2010
Olu Amoda (Nigeria) has been selected as one of the participating artists for The Global Africa Project at The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York City, November 17th, 2010 - May 15th, 2011. The exhibition will include the work of over 60 artists in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean, and survey the rich pool of new talent emerging from the African continent and its influence on artists around the world. Olu Amoda will create a site-specific installation for the exhibition.
Aime Mpane (DR Congo) has been selected as one of the participating artists for Touched, the international exhibition at the Liverpool Biennial September - November 2010
Angele Etoundi Essamba and Etiye Dimma Poulsen are included in the exhibition Black Womanhood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, curated by Barbara Thompson - April 1st - August 10th, 2008 at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
SKOTO GALLERY was voted BEST GALLERY IN CHELSEA by The VILLAGE VOICE reader's poll. (VILLAGE VOICE October 17- 23, 2007).
Aime Mpane is included in the exhibition "Three One-Man Exhibition" at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, May 26th - September 16th, 2007.
"Another Modernity: Works on Paper by Uche Okeke at The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, February 1st
- July 20th, 2006 is a historic exhibition that explores the development of modernism Nigerian art through the work of one of the country's foremost artist. The show offers an intimate look at the artist's creative development from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Curated by Christa Clarke.
Chinua Achebe, Uche Okeke and Simon Ottenberg were among the honored guests at the reception for Obiora Udechukwu's solo show at the gallery, June 1st 2006. The artist also turned 60 on that day.
Chinua Achebe, Uche Okeke: Artist and Author in Conversation with Curator Christa Clarke at the Newark Museum on Friday, June 2nd, 2006.
Sokey Edorh, El Anatsui and Etiye Dimma Poulsen were included in a group show Expanding Africa: New Art, New Directions New Art, New Directions", September 15th, 2006 - March 18th, 2007 at the Newark Museum.
SoHyun Bae was awarded a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship (Visual Arts). Congratulations!
Fathi Hassan, Owusu-Ankomah and Wosene Kosrof are included in a group exhibition Inscribing Meaning: Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art at the National Museum OF African Art, Washington DC (May 9th - August 26th, 2007) Curator: Christine Muller Kreamer. Aime Mpane is included in a three-person solo exhibition at the Station Museum in Houston, TX
May 26th - September 16th, 2007
Olu Amoda is included in a group show Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft (November 13th, 2007 - February 17th, 2008) at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Owusu-Ankomah is included in a group show Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora,
(November 17th, 2007 - April 13th, 2008), at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MI. Curator: Leesa Fanning