2025, Gameli Hamelo, "Craft and Kinship: How Sanaa Gateja's Art Anchors Community", Observer
2023, Marcus Gavin, "Making Art with Paper Beads and Barkcloth", BOMB Magazine

2022, Sarah Souli, "Sanaa Gateja: Carving a Path in the East African Craft Movement", WePresent
2019, Pamela Bentley, "Something like a Constellation", Art Africa Magazine
2018, "Interview with Sanaa Gateja: He Fights Poverty in Uganda through Art", Arctic Paper
CNN African Voices, "'Bead King' Expresses Himself through Art"; "Innovation Drives Ugandan Artist"; "Making Art a Family Business"

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025
Language of We, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA

2024
Nourishment, Karma, Los Angeles, USA

2023
Rolled Secrets, Karma, New York, USA
Sanaa Gateja: Selected Works, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA

2021
Radical Care, Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda

2006
Mbari Institute, Washington D.C., USA
Sankaranka Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2002-2004
Uganda National Museum, Kampala, Uganda

1993-2007
Tulifanya Gallery, Kampala, Uganda

1991
Nommo Gallery, Kampala, Uganda

1990
The National Cultural Centre, Kampala, Uganda

1986
The Africa Centre, London, UK

1980
African Heritage Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
Rowland Ward Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
In Between Blues, ABLAKASSA, DaDa, Marrakech, Morocco (1-54 Special Project)

2025
You Stretched Diagonally Across It: Contemporary Tapestry, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA
It Resonates, Heltz House, Nairobi, Kenya
Zona Maco, Afriart Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

2024
60th Venice Biennale, Uganda Pavilion, Venice, Italy
A Particular Kind of Heaven, 70 Main Street, Thomaston, Maine, USA
Art Basel Miami Beach, Afriart Gallery with Rele Gallery, Miami, USA
Neo-Custodians: Woven Narratives of Heritage, Cultural Memory, and Belonging, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA

2023

Africam EXPLORO, a cura di Antonella Pisilli, Black Liquid Art Gallery, Viterbo, Italia

2022
Is it morning for you yet?, 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
No Room For Fear, Hogan Lovells, London, UK

Public Collections

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Field Museum, Chicago, USA
Fondation H, Paris, France
The Commonwealth Institute, London, UK
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA