Jo Ractliffe and Pieter Hugo are included in Animal Model: 200 Years of Photography at Musée de l'Elysée, Switzerland, as part of Rencontres d'Arles. The show examines how photography has shaped our view of animals and 'profoundly influenced the ways we love, exploit, or defend them'. Opens 6 July 2026

Jo Ractliffe presents a solo exhibition, Out of Place at Jeu de Paume in Paris. Including work from 1982 to the present, 'the spaces she photographs are not simply geographical situations or terrains shaped by violence and history, they are also places rich with emotion and the bearers of memory.'

Jo Ractliffe features in Histoires en séries. Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall’s collection at the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, bringing together the work of almost 40 photographers with areas of focus spanning social documentary, architecture and life stories.

Jo Ractliffe features in Into the Unseen – The Walther Collection, at Deichtorhallen Hamburg. 'The exhibition unfolds a poetics of the unseen through artistic works and vernacular photographs that focus on spirituality, trauma, transformation, and multisensory perception.'

As Terras do Fim do Mundo by Jo Ractliffe features in Histoires en séries, at Musée d'art contemporain in Charleroi, spotlighting the photographic collection of the A foundation, which comprises some '6000 photographs collected over the last thirty years.'

Jo Ractliffe is among 15 artists showing in After the End of the World: Pictures from Panafrica at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition asks, 'What meanings has Earth held for people of African descent, and what can an environmental consciousness grounded in Pan-Africanist perspectives teach all of humanity today?'.

Landscaping by Jo Ractliffe features in the 19th edition of Fotografia Europea, titled Nature loves to hide. The exhibition aims to cultivate new narratives, examining the 'connections between concealment and discovery that dominate our relationship with Nature'.

Paulo Nazareth and Jo Ractliffe feature in the second chapter of The Struggle of Memory by the Deutsche Bank Collection. This iteration features 'artworks that explore in different ways the traces of history all around us while proposing alternative, sometimes subversive strategies of looking at the past'.

Georgina Gratrix, Pieter Hugo, Moshekwa Langa and Jo Ractliffe exhibit in You to Me, Me to You at A4 Arts Foundation. Curated by Francisco Berzunza as a love letter, the exhibitions aims to address 'the perils of unrequited love'.

Jane Alexander, Edson Chagas, Pieter Hugo, Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis and Guy Tillim feature in Trace - Formations of Likeness: Photography and Video from The Walther Collection, taking place at Haus der Kunst. The exhibition aims to showcase 'the medium’s capacity as both an instrument for empowerment and formation of the self, as well as its complex uses as a tool for control and subjugation'.

Jo Ractliffe features in The Future Is Behind Us, a group exhibition that meditates on 'time, tense and tempo' at A4 Arts Foundation. 

Jo Ractliffe features in Under the Rain of Others at SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. The exhibition takes its title from the book by Argentine poet and activist Juan Gelman, bringing together works 'works that serve as an antidote against the impulses of historical amnesia and the intimidation of silence'.

A mini-retrospective of Jo Ractliffe's work takes place at the 13th Recontres de Bamako. This edition is titled Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono - On Multiplicity, Difference, Becoming and Heritage, and invites reflections 'on the multiplicities of being and difference'. 

Jo Ractliffe is awarded a 2022 honorary fellowship from the Royal Photographic Society, recognising 'exceptional and innovative work'. This year's awards celebrate practitioners who 'incite change and bring about personal, social, and cultural wellbeing'.  

Jo Ractliffe exhibits in Regards de Femmes at Fondation A Stichting. Drawing on the the collection of Astrid Ullens de Schooten Whettnall, the show highlights how the selected artists share a desire to 'denounce, break the codes and push back the boundaries on the issues of social justice, femininity and the environment'. 

Edson Chagas, Zanele Muholi, Mame-Diarra Niang, Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis, and Guy Tillim exhibit in Shifting Dialogues: Photography from The Walther Collection at Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Spanning over 500 works, the show 'traces the development of photography as a history of transnational parallels and contradictions'.

Edson Chagas, Mame-Diarra Niang, Frida Orupabo and Jo Ractliffe exhibit in the 8th Triennial of Photography Hamburg, curated by Koyo Kouoh. Themed Currency, this edition of the triennial stages a parcours of exhibitions at major museums and institutions across the city, publications and progamming. 

Jo Ractliffe is one of four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022, getting the nod for her publication Photographs 1980s – now. An exhibition will be presented at The Photographers’ Gallery, London.

Publications by Simon Gush, Zanele Muholi and Jo Ractliffe feature in Intimacy and Resistance: An Intergenerational dialogue on Photobooks from South Africa with additions from Sub-Saharan Africa, curated by John Fleetwood. The exhibition forms part of Photobook Week Aarhus. 

The Art Institute of Chicago presents Drives, the first US survey exhibition of Jo Ractliffe's work. The show brings together more than 100 artworks, from early photographs of the 1980s through to her Angolan and Borderlands series and most recent work. 

Jo Ractliffe and Guy Tillim exhibit in À toi appartient le regard et (...) la liaison infinie entre les choses at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. Comprising photography, video and installation, this is the museum's first presentation of 'contemporary images in all their forms'.

Jo Ractliffe, Penny Siopis, Pieter Hugo, Steven Cohen, Nicholas Hlobo, Moshekwa Langa, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Zanele Muholi, Simphiwe Ndzube, Robin Rhode and Portia Zvavahera feature in Hacer Noche/Crossing Night, a series of exhibitions and residencies in Oaxaca focusing on southern Africa.

Edson Chagas, Meschac Gaba, Jo Ractliffe, Viviane Sassen and Kemang Wa Lehulere feature in More for Less at A4. Curated by Josh Ginsburg, the exhibition is focused on 'works and practices that fluidly seek to engage entropy and efficiency, waste, residue and offcuts, transactions, propositions, and serious play'.

Jo Ractliffe and Viviane Sassen are included in an exhibition of contemporary photographic seascapes titled Sea Views. The exhibition, to be held in the Philips Wing of the museum, focuses on each piece as an extensive exercise in 'air, light and tide'.

Jo Ractliffe was included in Things Fall Apart - 'reflections on African connections to the Soviet Union' - curated by Mark Nash. The exhibition showed at Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives, Budapest; Gallery Municipais, Lisbon; Calvert 22, London; and Iwalewahaus, Bayreuth.