African Artist

Africa is home to an enormous range of art traditions, from centuries old sculpture, mask making, and textile work to a fast growing contemporary art scene across cities on the continent and in the diaspora. This section brings together painters, sculptors, and photographers from across Africa, with countries that have enough artists on WooArts getting their own dedicated page, while smaller national scenes are gathered here under one regional home. Bold pattern, color, and storytelling connected to culture and history run through much of the work featured here. Explore this section to see the range of African art, from traditional craft to bold contemporary work.

Sofiane Dey | African Artist

Sofiane Dey is a young Algerian painter trained at the Fine Arts school in Batna, known for warm scenes of heritage and daily life. He mixes knife, brush, and oil to give his paintings a dreamy softness, and has won prizes in Algeria since his first show in 2010.
Kal Gajoum | African Artist

His bold, glowing street scenes and refined palette-knife work have captivated collectors worldwide.
Candace Charlton | African Artist

Candace Charlton is a South African painter born in Durban in 1968 who studied fine art and sculpture at Rhodes University before holding her first solo exhibition in 1998. She moved to Europe in 2000 and now lives and works between the Netherlands and Italy, focusing on portraits and figurative work that explore the depth…
Rachid Talbi | African Artist

Rachid Talbi is a painter born in Kasbat-Tadla, Morocco, in 1967, who trained in microbiology before teaching himself to paint and settling in Oran, Algeria. Working across oil, watercolor, acrylic and pastel, he built bright, richly textured scenes of everyday life inspired by Oran and Morocco, became a permanent artist at the Dar El Kenz…
Jimmy Law | African Artist

Jimmy Law is a South African painter known for bold, large-scale portraits built with wide brushes and heavily loaded paint. Originally trained in graphic design, he worked in a controlled, realistic style for years before a turning point in 2010, when he abandoned small brushes for a looser, more physical approach that transformed his work.…
Abdurrezagh Alryani | African Artist

Abdurrezagh Alryani is a Libyan painter, born in Tripoli, whose realist work captures the details of Libyan traditional dress, jewelry and everyday household life with rare authenticity. He earned his fine arts degree in Tripoli in 1991 and a master’s from the Rome University of Fine Arts in 2005, and has gone on to pursue…
Merhab Djelloul | African Artist

Merhab Djelloul is an Algerian watercolor artist, born in 1983, who studied at the School of Fine Arts in Mostaganem before becoming an independent artist and member of the International Watercolor Society. His realistic watercolors draw on his childhood village, family and the everyday scenes of Algerian life, rendered through careful attention to light and…
Chlag Amraoui | African Artist

Chlag Amraoui is an Algerian painter, born in 1969 in the mountain village of Tifrene in the Aures region, now based in Montreal. His work draws on Amazigh Berber culture and ancient Mediterranean artistic traditions, blending them with Renaissance and Arab-Berber influences to explore themes of nature, stone and the human condition. He has exhibited…
Abdelfettah Karmane | African Artist

Abdelfettah Karmane is a Moroccan painter, born in 1969 in Sidi Slimane, who held his first exhibition at just 14 and has since shown his work across Morocco, France, Italy, Portugal and Russia. Working in oil, acrylic and watercolor, his richly detailed still lifes and portraits draw on Moroccan heritage, from traditional carpets and zelliges…
Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey | African Artist

Jonathan Kwegyir Aggrey is a Ghanaian watercolor artist born in 1984, who worked as a roadside artist before training with mentor Enoch Yaw Mensah in Accra and earning a degree in art education from the University of Education, Winneba. His vibrant watercolors capture Ghana’s coastal life, fishing villages, markets, and the resilience of everyday people,…
Ben Heine | Drawings | African Artist

Ben Heine is a Belgian multidisciplinary artist born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 1983 and raised mostly in Brussels. He is best known for inventing “Pencil Vs Camera,” a series that blends his own hand-drawn sketches with photographs to create playful, surreal scenes, along with related series like “Digital Circlism.” His work has been shown…