Yinka Shonibare CBE

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Yinka Shonibare CBE and David Goldblatt solo exhibitions open at Norval Foundation

The Norval Foundation in Cape Town is hosting major solo exhibitions by Yinka Shonibare CBE and David Goldblatt (13 February – 26 August). Anchoring Shonibare’s exhibition, titled Trade Winds, will be his African Library, an installation of around 4,900 books covered in Dutch Wax fabric first shown at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg last year. The library will be shown alongside Shonibare’s five part photographic series Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters as well as the sculptures Boy Balancing Knowledge II and Butterfly Kid (Girl) IV. Elsewhere at Norval Goldblatt’s iconic photographic series On the Mines is exhibited as a complete set for the first time. The series documents the communities and landscape associated with the gold mines of Gauteng, South Africa in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The exhibition will be accompanied by texts by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer.

Solo exhibitions for Yinka Shonibare CBE at Davis Museum at Wellesley College and Hereford Cathedral, and curator of exhibition at Royal Albert Memorial Museum

A solo exhibition of work by Yinka Shonibare CBE held by the Davis collection is on show at Wellesley College (7 February – 9 June). Titled Guns Drawn, the exhibition ‘exemplifys [Shonibare’s] theatrical depictions of beauty and violence, and his exploration of the inheritances of colonialism in our contemporary, globalised world’. Another Shonibare solo exhibition, titled Creatures of the Mappa Mundi, is on at the Hereford Cathedral (until 1 June). For this exhibition Shonibare presents a series of textile works that respond to the scenes depicted in the Mappa Mundi, the largest medieval world map still in existence. Criminal Ornamentation, a touring exhibition of nearly 100 works by over 50 artists from the Arts Council Collection curated by Shonibare, is on show at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (until 17 March).

Ghada Amer, Kapwani Kiwanga and Yinka Shonibare on group show ‘Soft Power’ at the Transpalette Centre d’art in France

SOFT POWER is a group exhibition at the Transplatte Centre d’art featuring contemporary artists who incorporate textiles into their practices (31 October – 19 January). The exhibition features among others Ghada Amer, Kapwani Kiwanga and Yinka Shonibare MBE whose work explores the conceptual implications of textile materials as a way to explore ideas around representation of black bodies, the experience of the exile and anti-feminist stereotypes. The result is a collection of work that ‘engage in the counter-event, a reverse positioning, against the flow of the alienating spectacle and the regeneration of a fossilized collective imagination,’ writes curator Julie Crenn.

Yinka Shonibare curates Art Council Collection exhibition

In association with the new Arts Council Collection, Yinka Shonibare MBE has curated a touring exhibition at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester (21 September – 16 December). Titled Criminal Ornamentation, the exhibition features artists including Shonibare whose work ’explores the cultural and social dimensions of the use of pattern in modern and contemporary art’. The result is a collection of colourful, patterned artwork that challenge the notion that the presence of ornamentation in art should be considered bad taste.

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Yinka Shonibare MBE curates Art Council Collection

In association with the new Arts Council Collection, Yinka Shonibare MBE has curated a touring exhibition at Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester. Titled Criminal Ornamentation, the exhibition features artists including Shonibare whose work ‘explores the cultural and social dimensions of the use of pattern in modern and contemporary art’. The result is a collection of colourful, patterned artwork that challenge the notion that ornamentation in art is in poor taste.

Yinka Shonibare, Kudzanai Chiurai and Sam Nhlengethwa on group exhibition in Michigan, USA

The University of Michigan Museum of Art’s exhibition Beyond Borders: Global Africa reflects on the globalised world by considering how Africa and its artists have been at the centre of complex histories of encounter and exchange for centuries (11 August – 25 November). Bringing together works made in Africa, Europe, and the United States from the nineteenth to twenty-first century, the exhibition demonstrates the international scope and reach of art from Africa and its diaspora. Highlights include paintings, photographs, sculpture, and installations by artists including Kudzanai Chiurai, Yinka Shonibare, MBE and Sam Nhlengethwa.

Shirin Neshat and Yinka Shonibare MBE at MAXXI in Rome

Neshat’s Illusions and Mirrors video work, from the Dreamers trilogy, and The Invisible Man by Shonibare MBE are featured as part of MAXXI’s group exhibition, Eco e Narciso. Portrait and self-portrait from the MAXXI and Le Gallerie Barberini Corsini Collections (18 May – 28 October). With 37 works by 25 artists from the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini and MAXXI collections, the exhibition creates a dialogue between the work of old Masters and contemporary artists on the theme of the portrait and the self-portrait.

Kudzanai Chiurai and Yinka Shonibare MBE are included on 21c Museum Hotel’s latest group exhibition in Louisville, Kentucky

Kudzanai Chiurai and Yinka Shonibare MBE feature on 21c Museum Hotel’s new group exhibition, Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, in Louisville (1 April – 31 March). The exhibition explores the role that costume plays in constructing one’s identity and confronting history. With over 35 participating artists from 22 countries, Dress Up, Speak Up offers a global investigation into such concepts, whilst reconfiguring, reimagining, and reconstituting history in order to examine the legacy and effects of European colonialism.

Colorful Shonibare “Wind Sculpture” blows its way into Central Park

As a specially commissioned project funded by the Public Art Fund in New York, Yinka Shonibare MBE presents his first outdoor sculpture in New York City . Titled Wind Sculpture (SG) I, the sculpture is on exhibition in Central Park at Doris C. Freedman Plaza (7 March – 14 October). Continuing in a similar vein to the Wind Sculpture series initiated in 2013, this particular sculpture begins a second generation within the body of work, with a much larger and more complex structure and rippled surface, painted in turquoise, red, and orange.

Kambalu, Shonibare and Thomas exhibit at the Taub Museum of Art in Virginia

Works by Samson Kambalu, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Hank Willis Thomas are included on a major group exhibition, titled Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, at the Taubman Museum of Art (3 March – 2 September). Featuring over 100 artworks created from various media, the exhibition seeks to investigates the universal conversation surrounding migration, history, race and representation in art being made today. The artworks illustrate how artists use their art to reference their own home countries whilst developing narratives that embrace global histories.

Various artists on a traveling group exhibition in Albuquerque

Five Goodman Gallery artists – Kudzanai Chiurai, Haroon Gunn-Salie, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Mikhael Subotzky (in collaboration with Patrick Waterhouse) and Hank Willis Thomas – feature on Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, a group exhibition hosted by Albuquerque Museum in the United States (3 February – 6 May). The exhibition offers a vision of Africa in the twenty-first century as a place of unbounded optimism, rapid growth, and massive cultural transformation and presents the continent as a hub of experimentation that generates innovative design approaches and solutions with worldwide relevance.

Yinka Shonibare MBE receives a grant from the prestigious VIA Art Fund

Yinka Shonibare MBE is one of three artists, alongside Tacita Dean and Zanele Muholi, to be awarded a grant from the Boston-based cultural project organisation, VIA Art Fund. The monies obtained from the award will be used to help realise Shonibare MBE‘s The American Library, a room-sized installation containing over 6 000 batik covered books at the Cleveland Public Library for FRONT International which opens in July 2018.

Yinka Shonibare MBE on exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

Yinka Shonibare MBE’s latest virtual reality artwork, Venus Presenting Helen to Paris (with Townley Venus), is showcased on the Royal Academy of Arts’ From Life exhibition in London (11 December – 11 March). Taking place across the Sackler Wing of Galleries and the Tennant Gallery, the exhibition examines what making art from life has meant to artists throughout history and how the practice is evolving as technology opens up new ways of creating and visualising artwork. Having previously experimented with virtual reality technology, Shonibare has created new artwork for the exhibition; a work that offers a three-dimensional rendering of a neo-classical painting, and features a cast of Venus dressed in the artist’s trademark batik fabric.

Yinka Shonibare MBE on museum exhibition in Texas

Odile and Odette by Shonibare MBE, which forms part of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s permanent collection, is featured on their group exhibition Figures from the Collection (9 December – 28 January). The exhibition offers various artists’ perspectives on people and their surroundings. The works’ subject matter ranges from autobiographical and inclusive of friends and acquaintances to historical or completely fictional. Within the context of the exhibition, Shonibare’s work explores the social constructs which inform the human condition by examining racial and cultural stereotypes through juxtaposing a white and a black ballerina dancing each other’s mirror image in what is traditionally a solo from Swan Lake.

Yinka Shonibare MBE at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art

Work by Yinka Shonibare MBE is included on the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art’s latest permanent exhibition, titled Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts (opening 4 November). The exhibition is the largest long-term presentation of the Museum’s permanent collection to date, and aims to represent the broadest possible range of Africa’s creative visual expressions, featuring over 300 artworks by over 30 named artists. Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa’s Arts is the museum’s first exhibition to offer broad thematic connections between works from across the spectrum of times, places, and media represented in the museum’s holdings.

Yinka Shonibare MBE on group exhibition in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Shonibare’s Butterfly Kid (Boy) II features on the Athr Gallery’s group exhibition, We Are Not Alone, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (17 October – 16 November). Organised by the British Council as part of its Contemporary Collective initiative to develop a new generation of curators from the Middle East, the exhibition is curated by six women from Saudi Arabia – Reem Aljalhami, Dalia Fatani, Raneen Bukhari, Maryam Bilal, Solafa Rawas and Thahab Alosaimi. The exhibition “explores shared feelings and anxieties, expressed through the familiar, the peculiar, the uncanny and the transcendental, with art acting as a medium to start conversations that matter to young people in Saudi Arabia and communities around the world,” explains Alosaimi.

Yinka Shonibare MBE speaks at the Arts Out Loud Festival

In his presentation and speech at the Arts Out Loud Festival at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire (22 – 24 September), Yinka Shonibare MBE (23 September) discusses how his artworks and practice can be seen as powerful expressions of the complexities inherent within contemporary discourses on post-colonialism and identity.

Various artists on inaugural group show at Zeitz MOCAA

Nine Goodman Gallery artists – Ghada Amer, Hasan and Husain Essop, Kendell Geers, Samson Kambalu, William Kentridge, Liza Lou, Misheck Masamvu, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Hank Willis Thomas – are included on the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) inaugural exhibition,_ All things being equal…_, in Cape Town (22 September – 19 February). The launch of Zeitz MOCAA marks the opening of the first major museum in Africa dedicated to contemporary art. This show is the first in the museum’s initiative to host international exhibitions, while developing educational and enrichment programmes, encouraging intercultural understanding and facilitating access for all.

David Goldblatt, Haroon Gunn-Salie and Yinka Shonibare MBE on A4 Arts Foundation’s inaugural exhibition in Cape Town

The A4 Arts Foundation’s inaugural exhibition, You & I, in Cape Town (13 September – 30 November) includes work by David Goldblatt, Haroon Gunn-Salie and Yinka Shonibare MBE. As a non-profit arts organisation dedicated to promoting and encouraging innovation within the South African arts, the exhibition uses the Buitenkant Street gallery space as a platform in which the idea of collaboration and collectivity can be explored. Curated by Ziphozenkosi Dayile and Kemang Wa Lehulere, You & I examines the multivocality of collectivity by investigating and reconsidering the social conditions, dynamics and histories of such ideas.

Yinka Shonibare MBE in conversation at Kensington Palace

Shonibare will be in conversation with Glenn Adamson, from the Museum of Arts and Design in New York and London’s Victoria & Albert Museum, at the King’s State Apartments within Kensington Palace (4 September). The two speakers will talk about the artist’s new sculptural commission, Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina. The discussion provides viewers with an opportunity to gain insight into how Shonibare’s work offers a complex exploration and nuanced investigation into topics dealing with race, class and the meaning of cultural and national definitions.

Yinka Shonibare MBE at the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool

Work by Shonibare features on the Grundy Art Gallery’s exhibition, Paper, Canvas, Neon, about the institution’s most recent acquisitions to its permanent collection (26 August – 23 December). The exhibition includes works by internationally renowned artists, as well as emerging and more established artists from across North West England and the broader United Kingdom.

Yinka Shonibare MBE on museum show in Denmark

Shonibare’s Little Rich Girls and Earth feature on the Gammel Holtegård’s group exhibition, Colonial Stories – Power and People, in Copenhagen (25 August – 30 December). The exhibition marks the centenary of the end of the Danish colonies in the West Indies, exploring the history through artworks, cultural artefacts, and contemporary art from Denmark and abroad.

Yinka Shonibare MBE and Candice Breitz on new triennial in Cleveland

Shonibare and Breitz have been invited to participate in the inaugural FRONT International Cleveland Triennial exhibition (14 July – 30 September 2018) planned by cultural impresario Fred Bidwell, a collector, Cleveland Museum of Art trustee and co-founder of the Transformer Station in Ohio City. Organisers hope the event will draw as many as 300,000 viewers and establish Cleveland as a cultural destination along the likes of Kassel, Germany, where documenta is held.

Shonibare will create an installation in the Cleveland Public Library’s Brett Hall that will include 6,000 books covered in the artist’s signature batik cloth and embossed with the names of immigrants who have shaped American art and culture. Breitz will exhibit Love Story (2016), a seven-channel installation that interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work evokes the global scale of the so-called ‘refugee crisis,’ evolving out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum.

Various artists at Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

Four Goodman Gallery artists – Kudzanai Chiurai, Gabrielle Goliath, Tracey Rose and Yinka Shonibare – are included on the Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea’s group exhibition, AFRICA. Telling a world (27 June – 11 September). Curated by Adelina von Furstenberg, the exhibition investigates the diversity of contemporary African art practices, and poses questions surrounding the issues of racial, political, gender and religious identities that continue to inform the continent at large.

Yinka Shonibare on group show exploring royalty at the Kensington Palace

Shonibare’s Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of South Carolina features on Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World at Kensington Palace (22 June – 12 November). The work was commissioned especially for the exhibition, which is presented by Historic Royal Palaces and the Yale Center for British Art. It explores the lives of three German princesses whose marriage into the British royal family and wide-ranging interests placed them at the very heart of the Enlightenment underway in 18th-century Britain.

Yinka Shonibare on summer show in Switzerland

Shonibare’s Un Ballo in Maschera and The Crowning feature on the summer group exhibition, Un Bal Masque / A Masked Ball, at Le Chateau de Nyon (9 June – 26 November). The exhibition reimagines objects, artefacts and ceremonial occasions of 18th-century Europe by including works that offer a contemporary colouring to the garments, ornate subject matter and events of the period.

Yinka Shonibare at York Art Gallery in the UK

Shonibare features on a group exhibition, Leisure Land Golf, curated by Doug Fishbone at the York Art Gallery (2 June – 3 September). The artist’s Football Cloud forms part of the exhibition’s fully playable crazy golf course, with each golf hole designed and made by a different contemporary artist. The show is inspired by the curatorial theme of the ‘Leisure Principle’, which refers to the idea of tourism and trade as a metaphor to explore current global economic debates through one of the key values of leisure – consumption, and how it shapes our identity. Visitors are invited to play a round of crazy golf and engage with important cultural topics including migration, global warming and globalisation.

Yinka Shonibare MBE on the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2017

Shonibare’s The British Library installation forms part of the Diaspora Pavilion at the 57th La Biennale di Venezia. Presented by the International Curators Forum (ICF) and University of the Arts London (UAL), the exhibition takes place at the Palazzo Pisani S. Marina (13 May – 26 November). The Diaspora Pavilion is conceived as a challenge to the prevalence of national pavilions within the structure of an international biennial. By bringing together a group of 19 UK-based, ethnically diverse artists, the pavilion speaks eloquently of the infinite complexities of the very idea of nationality, whilst highlighting the continued relevance that diaspora as a lived reality holds today.

Overview

Ruins Decorated
Solo exhibitions

Yinka Shonibare MBE / Ruins Decorated / 2018

Goodman Gallery Johannesburg
1 September – 6 October 2018

What I do is create a kind of mongrel. In reality most people’s cultures have evolved out of this mongrelisation, but people don’t acknowledge that.
– Yinka Shonibare MBE

For Yinka Shonibare’s second solo exhibition in Africa and his first on the continent in fifteen years, the British-Nigerian artist presents Ruins Decorated – a new body of work which sparks a state of charged curiosity.

Can an historically dominant culture ever empathise with another culture?

What happens then when former subjects of the British Empire become cultural hybrids themselves?

To what culture do they show allegiance?

Can the hybridisation of icons of power be the solution to breaking down binaries required by dictatorship and prejudice?

Through beguiling sculptures, staged photographs and paintings, film and installation, Shonibare considers narratives of power and reinvention in relation to the rise and fall of western empires and the struggles for African Independence.

Part one of the exhibition presents ruined historical symbols of Roman and British Empires embellished in Dutch wax Batik / ‘African’ textiles. Shonibare transforms the classical white marble body into colourful sculptures – the decoration of power in the wrong colours.

‘Some might say the right colours, as the original classical sculptures would have been painted in bright colours’, Shonibare points out. ‘That is before Johann Winchelmann, the 19th century historian, created his fallacy of the superiority of the white classical marble sculpture’.

More questions, and possible solutions, surface:

Can the seemingly ruined be remade in the inclusive colours of the excluded?

Can the power of collusion and hybridisation create a third ideal which transcends prejudice?

This exploration of hyphenated or ‘mongrelised’ selves prompts ways for expanding dialogues on cultural ‘appropriation’, teasing out possibilities for re-imagining modern African identities that complicate essentialist constructs of race and nationality.

Part two of Ruins Decorated juxtaposes Addio Del Passato (2011), a film about a colonial hero’s betrayal of his wife and his eventual decline, alongside a series of photographs in which Admiral Nelson’s death is re-imagined through the depiction of death in historical paintings. Nelson’s demise is re-enacted and his image (donning a uniform made out of ‘African’ textiles) is transformed through its decoration.

Part three – the sculpture Post-Colonial Globe Man – presents a man wearing Victorian clothes made out of another variation of ‘African’ pattern, balancing precariously on a large globe. The globe shows a map of the British Empire before the first world war. The man’s head is replaced with another globe, depicting a post-colonial map of the world as it is known today.

Part four, The African Library, considers the contributions of people like Kwame Nkrumah and Nelson Mandela to African independence struggles following the second world war. For this installation, 5000 books have been covered in ‘African’ textiles and bear the names of post-independence African presidents and famous Africans in literature, science, music, art, engineering and theatre as well as pro-African Europeans. The African Library is to be presented in this iteration for the first time.

Ruins Decorated is Shonibare’s first solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery. While the exhibition marks a rare moment of visibility for the artist on the African continent, it also forms part of an increasing momentum to engage with Shonibare’s practice in South Africa, following Addio Del Passato on Zeitz MOCAA’s inaugural exhibition in 2017 and soon to be followed by the Norval Foundation’s exhibition of Wind Sculpture (SG) III in February 2019.

About the artist

Yinka Shonibare MBE is one of few people of African descent to be decorated as a ‘Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire’, which he officially attaches to his name – a decision which writer Jeffrey Kastner describes as ‘a wry acknowledgement of his own state of perpetual betweenness’.

Shonibare was born in London in 1962 and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at age three. He returned to London to study Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art (now Central Saint Martins College) and at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA. In 2004 he was nominated for the Turner Prize.

Over the past decade, Shonibare has become known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalization. Working in painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation, his work examines race, class and the construction of cultural identity through sharp political commentary of the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.

Group exhibitions

Art Basel Hong Kong 2019

Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2019

Art Basel Miami Beach 2018
Biography

Yinka Shonibare CBE (b. 1962, London, UK) moved to Lagos, Nigeria, at age three. He returned to London to study Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art (now Central Saint Martins College) and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA.

Shonibare is well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. Working in painting, sculpture, photography, film and installation, his work examines race, class and the construction of cultural identity through a sharp political commentary of the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their intersecting economic and political histories. Shonibare uses wry citations of western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities.

In 2004 Shonibare was nominated for the Turner Prize and was awarded the decoration of Member of the ‘Most Excellent Order of the British Empire’ or MBE, a title he has added to his professional name.

In 2002 Shonibare was commissioned by Okwui Enwezor at Documenta 11, Kassel to create his most recognised work Gallantry and Criminal Conversation that launched him on an international stage. Since then, his works have formed part of prominent collections, including the Tate Collection, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C; Museum of Modern Art, New York – among others.

In 2013, he was elected as a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy, London. 2010 saw the artist’s first public art commission, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square where it was on display until 2012.

Ruins Decorated (1 September – 6 October 2018) is Shonibare’s first solo exhibition with Goodman Gallery, marking a rare moment of visibility for the artist’s work on the African continent but also forms part of increasing momentum to engage with his practice, particularly in South Africa. It follows on from Addio Del Passato on Zeitz MOCAA’s inaugural exhibition in 2017, followed by the Norval Foundation’s exhibition of Wind Sculpture (SG) III in February 2019.

The artist lives and works in London, UK.

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Yinka Shonibare CBE: Flower Power, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan A Tale of 2019 Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE, Driehaus Museum, Chicago, USA Trade Winds: Yinka 2019 Shonibare CBE, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2019 Creatures of the Mappa Mundi, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, UK

2018 The American Library, Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College, North Carolina, USA
2018 Yinka Shonibare MBE, Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK End of Empire, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
2018 Ruins Decorated, Goodman Gallery Johannesburg, SA
2018 Yinka Shonibare MBE, Busan Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea

2017 Prejudice at Home; a Parlour, a Library and a Room, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2017 Paradise Beyond, Gemeentmuseum Helmond, Netherlands
2017 Yinka Shonibare MBE: Addio Del Passato, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, SA

2016 RA Family Album, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2016 …and the wall fell away, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2016 Recreating The Pastoral, Visual Carlow, Carlow, Ireland
2016 End of Empire, 14-18 Now, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
2016 Childhood Memories, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
2016 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
2016 Paradise Beyond, Gemeentemusem, Helmond, Netherlands
2016 Yinka Shonibare MBE, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, USA

2015 William Morris Family Album, The William Morris Gallery, London, England
2015 Rage of the Ballet Gods, James Cohen Gallery, New York, USA
2015 Colonial Arrangements, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, USA
2015 Pieces de Resistance, dhc-art, Montreal, Canada
2015 Yinka Shonibare, Daegu Art Museum, South Korea

2014 Egg Fight, Fondation Blachere, France (catalogue)
2014 Cannonball Paradise, Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster, Germany
2014 The British Library, House and Brighton Festival co-commission, The Old Reference Library, Brighton Museum, England
2014 Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2014 Yinka Shonibare, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2014 Making Eden, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany
2014 Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
2014 MCA Chicago Plaza Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2014 Party Time: Re-imagine America, The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA

2013 Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Dreaming Rich, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, Shanghai
2013 Yinka Shonibare MBE, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, England
2013 Selected Works, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland; travelling to Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
2013 FABRIC-ATION, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 FABRIC-ATION, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England (catalogue)
2013 FOCUS: Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
2013 POP!, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2013 Dreaming Rich, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China

2012 Imagined as the Truth, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, USA
2012 Invasion, Escape: Aliens do it right!, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012 Addio del Passato, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

2011 El Futuro del Pasado, Alcalá 31 Centros de Arte, Madrid, Spain, curated by Octavio Zaya; touring to Centro de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

2010 Human Culture: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2010 Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Sculpture, Photography and Film, Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA
2010 Looking Up, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
2010 Yinka Shonibare MBE, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany
2010 Before and After Modernism: Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, England

2009 Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA; Travelling to the St Louis Art Museum, USA
2009 Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2009 Party Time: Re-Imagine America – A Centennial Commission by Yinka Shonibare MBE, Newark Museum, 1 July – 3 January 2010
2009 A Centenary Commission, 26 February – August 2009
2009 Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland
2009 A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child & other Astonishing Works, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA
2009 A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
2009 Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia; touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA and National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, USA

2008 Odile and Odette, Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2008 Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia; touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA and the Smithsonian, Washington D.C., USA
2008 Prospero’s Monsters, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA

2007 Scratch the Surface, National Gallery, London, England
2007 Jardin d’Amour, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
2007 White Flag at Half Mast, commission for the Jubilee Flagpole, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, England
2007 Summer Show, New York Gallery, New York, USA

2006 Yinka Shonibare Installation, Speed Museum, Kentucky, USA
2006 Flower Time, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2005 Mobility, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper-Hewitt, National
2005 Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York, USA
2005 Collaborative film/dance project with the Royal Opera House and the Africa Centre, London, England

2004 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
2004 Yinka Shonibare, Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; touring to Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (catalogue)
2004 Vasa, Commission for the opening of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Yinka Shonibare, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA

2003 Play with me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, Enland

2002 Christmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London, England
2002 Britannia project, Tate Britain, London, England
2002 Be-muse, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
2002 The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (brochure)
2002 Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa (catalogue)
2002 Double Dress, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; toured to KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, USA and Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2001 Stephen Friedman Gallery and 2nd Floor, 12 Dolland Street, London, England

2000 Effective, defective, creative, permanent video installation, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London, England
2000 _Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2000 Affectionate Men, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
2000 Diary of a Victorian Dandy Project, INIVA; toured to Castle Museum, Nottingham; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England

1999 Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; toured to Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway;
1999 Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (catalogue)
1999 Brent Sikkema, New York, USA

1998 Diary of a Victorian Dandy, site-specific project on the London Underground, commissioned and produced by INIVA, London, England
1998 Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids, Tablet, the Tabernacle, London; toured to Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, England

1997 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
1997 Present Tense, contemporary project series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1995 Sun, Sea and Sand, BAC Gallery, London, England

1994 Double Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London, England

1989 Byam Shaw Gallery, London, England
1989 Bedford Hill Gallery, London, England

Group Exhibitions

2019 Criminal Ornamentation, Curated by Yinka Shonibare, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Hayward Touring, UK

2018 Musée des Civilisations, Dakar, Senegal Senses of Time: Video and Film-based Works of Africa, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2018 Soft Power, Transpaleter Art Centre, Bourges, France Bloot, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, Germany Criminal Ornamentation, Curated by Yinka Shonibare, Attenborough Arts Centre, Hayward Touring, Leicester, UK
2018 The Most Real Thing: Contemporary Textiles and Sculpture, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK
2018 An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2018 The Great Spectacle, RA Summer Exhibition Retrospective, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2018 Talisman in the Age of Difference, Curated by Yinka Shonibare, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2018 Powerful Tides, The Dockyard, Chatham, UK Eco e Narciso, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
2018 From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present, Musée des Beaux- Arts de Montreal, Canada Time and Tide. The Power of the Sea, Chatham Dockyard, London, UK
2018 Pulling at Threads, Norval Foundation, Cape Town,
2018 Eco e Narciso, Palazzo Barberini, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2018 From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2018 Time and Tide. The Power of the Sea, Chatham Dockyard, London, UK
2018 Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, Met Breur, New York, USA (catalogue)

2017 From Life, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2017 We Are Not Alone, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2017 Cure 3 Charity Exhibition, Bonhams Auction House, London
2017 Colonial Stories, GL Holtegaard, Denmark
2017 Other Side: Art, Object, Self, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, USA
2017 Acts of Transgression, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong
2017 Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2017 Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
2017 AFRICA. Raccontare un mondo, PAC, Milan, Italy
2017 Un Bal Masque / A Masked Ball, Le Chateau de Nyon, Switzerland
2017 Enlightened Princesses; Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of The Modern World, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA tours to Kensington Palace, London, England (catalogue)
2017 Les Eclaireurs (The Enlighteners), Foundation Blachere aux Palais des Papes
2017 Diaspora Platform, Palazzo Pisani, Venice, Italy
2017 Tous de Sang Meles, MAC/VAL, Vitry en Seine, Paris
2017 Leisure Land Golf, York Art Gallery, York, England
2017 Cure Cubed, Cure 3 Charity Exhibition, Bonhams, London, England
2017 Quotidian, Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai, China

2016 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
2016 BODY/PLAY/POLITICS, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan (catalogue)
2016 Found, The Foundling Museum, London, England
2016 Making and Unmaking, Curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
2016 Animality, Curated by Jens Hoffman, Marian Goodman Gallery, London (catalogue)
2016 Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2016 720, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
2016 Across Art and Fashion, Ferragamo Museum Florence, Italy
2016 New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan

2015 Portraits and Other Likeness from SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA
2015 A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium, Brussels
2015 Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2015 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, England
2015 Arts + Foods. Rituals since 1851, Fonazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2015 Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Kent, England
2015 Chercher le Garcon, MAC/VAL, Paris, France
2015 Unravelling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories, Textile museum, The George Washington University Museum, Washington DC, USA
2015 The House for the Flying Wheel, Morley Gallery, London, England
2015 In Search of Meaning; the Human Figure in Global Perspective, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
2015 Heartbreak Hotel, presented by the Vanhaertens Collection, Venice Biennale, Italy
2015 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Museu Afro Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015 Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
2015 Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
2015 Africans Africa: Contemporary African Art, Museu Afro, Brazil
2015 The Worlds Turned Upside Down, BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium
2015 Life is this MUSAC Off, DA2, Salamanca, Spain
2015 Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
2015 The Inverted Worlds, BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium

2014 The Global Africa Project – Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Post Pop: East Meets West at Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2014 Temporary Contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
2014 It’s All a Masquerade! – Carnival, Masquerade and other Forms of Authorised Anarchy, Kunsthalle Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
2014 The House of The Flying Wheel, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK: travelled to Morley Gallery, England
2014 Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman, Gallery, London, England
2014 Progress, The Foundling Museum, London, England
2014 Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
2014 Ship to Shore, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
2014 The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2014 Interchange Junctions, 5 Howick Place, London, England
2014 The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK, Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia, Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England
2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
2014 Collection IX. Arco Collection, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
2014 Aliens in parliament, Kiel Parliament, Kiel Country House, Kiel, Germany
2014 Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

2013 Education, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
2013 Block Party: Contemporary Craft Inspired by the Art of the Tailor, AUB, Bournemouth, England
2013 Living Archive, Paco Das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brasil
2013 Bienniale Cuvee, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
2013 Out of Fashion, gl Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark; travelling to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
2013 Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting: 15th Anniversary Collection, MOCA, North Miami, USA
2013 Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, Contemporary Art Centre, Louisiana, USA
2013 Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
2013 Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2013 Le Pont, Musée d’Art Contemporain, project for Marseille-Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture
2013 Pedro Lasch, Susan Harbage Page and Yinka Shonibare, Nasher, Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA
2013 Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, England, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
2013 Victoriana: The Art of Revival, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, England
2013 Kunst & Textile, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
2013 Miniartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy

2012 The Progress of Love, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria; touring to The Menil Collection, Texas, USA; The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2012 The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2012 Happening to Be, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, England *2012* The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany
2012 Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, and Discovery, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
2012 Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, England
2012 Trade Routes Over Time, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 Déjà-vu? Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube (Déjà-vu? The Art of Reproduction from Dürer to YouTube), Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
2012 artbindLuxe: Mode D’Emploi, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
2012 Rokoko Mania: Contemporary art and design in dialogue with crafts from the 1700’s, Designmuseum, København, Denmark
2012 Cotton: Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
2012 The Crisis Commission, Somerset House, London, England
2012 Six Yards, Guaranteed Real Dutch Wax Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands
2012 Block Party, Smiths Row, London; touring to National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland; New Walk Museum & Gallery, Leicester, England
2012 Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Centre for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennesse, USA; touring to Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada; and to the Glenbow Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2012 Histories of the Colonial screening event for Colonial Spectres: A moving Picture Blues, film series curated by Christian Kravagna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria (Film: Addio del Passato)
2012 African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA

2011 Travelling Light, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
2011 I Know Something About Love, Parasol Unit, London, England
2011 Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2011 Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
2011 Rewind-Play-Forward, Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania
2011 Environment and Object, Tang Art Museum, New York, USA
2011 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA
2011 Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, USA
2011 Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011 The African Continuum, the United Nations, New York, USA
2011 Sprit and Space: Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
2011 African Interweave: Textile Diasporas, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA
2011 The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, USA

2010 Lust and Vice. The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kustmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2010 GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy, London, England
2010 Raw, 242nd Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
2010 Lust and Vice: The 7 Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Art Museum of Bern, Switzerland
2010 Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
2010 21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2010 The House of Fairy Tales, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
2010 Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, California, USA
2010 Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
2010 Eye of the Pacific Rim, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan City, Korea
2010 Foundation of Art: Sculpture and its Base since Rodin, ARP Museum, Bonn, Germany
2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
2010 Who Knows Tomorrow, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany
2010 Until Now: Collecting the Contemporary (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
2010 Size DOES Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
2010 Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2010 Pattern I.D., Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA
2010 Nothing is Forever, South London Gallery, London, England
2010 Performance/Art, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, USA
2010 DaDaFest International, Liverpool, England

2009 British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1965-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2009 A Rebelión dos Xeneros, Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain
2009 Third Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, The garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2009 Persona, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium (April – January 2010)
2009 Perhaps Truth is a Woman, Museum of European Garden History, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
2009 Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
2009 Bodies in Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2009 Pictures in Series, Fischer Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA

2008 Nos, Museu de republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2008 The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA
2008 Space Now!, The Triangle Gallery at Space Studios, London, England
2008 Angaza Afrika, The October Gallery, London, England
2008 The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2008 Body Space, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, England

2007 Crossing the Water, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford; travelling to City Gallery, Leicester, England
2007 Stardust or the last border, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
2007 Role Exchange, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
2007 African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
2007 Check-List Luanda Pop, African Pavillion, 52nd Venice Biennale
2007 Uncomfortable Truths – the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art and design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; touring to Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England
2007 Tomorrow Now: When Design Meets Science Fiction, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2007 War and Discontent, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2007 Scratch the Surface, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
2007 Fashion Accidentally, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Asia

2006 Primitivism Revisited, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2006 RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
2006 Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
2006 William Hogarth, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France; travelled to Tate Britain, London, England; Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
2006 Transvideo, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2006 MASCARADA / MASQUERADE, DA2 – Domus Artium 2002, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
2006 DRESSCODE, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland
2006 Space is the Place, Independent Curators International, New York, USA
2006 Los Usos de la Pintura II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico (curated by Julieta González)
2006 Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, California, USA
2006 Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada
2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2006 A Historic Occasion, Artists Making History, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA
2006 East Wing Collection No. 7 Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London, England
2006 Around The World In Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, London, England
2006 Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA
2006 Artificial Afrika, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA (curated by Vernon Reid and C. Daniel Dawson)

2005 Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Contemporary Art Collections, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA
2005 Woman Women, Ville de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland; toured to the Palazzo Strozzi,
2005 Florence, Italy; Palais des Beaux Arts/Entrepõt Royal Tour & Taxis (curated by Adelina von Furstenberg)
2005 Take Two. Worlds and Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2005 Acting Out: The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA; toured to the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, USA (organized by UIMA curator Kathleen A. Edwards, catalogue)
2005 Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2005 Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; toured to Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2005 African Voices, New Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, Sweden
2005 Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2004 African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
2004 Continental Drift: Installations by Ilya Kabakov, Joan Jonas, Juan Muños, Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, FL, USA
2004 Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 The Fabric Workshop and Museum, New York, NY, USA
2004 Flexible 4: Identities, Landes Museen, Linz, Austria
2004 Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004 Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA (catalogue)

2003 Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, The Museum for African Art, New York, USA (catalogue)
2003 Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2003 Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue)
2003 Flexible 4: Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
2003 Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
2003 , vêtements de l’art contemporain, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada (catalogue)
2003 Independence, South London Gallery, London, England
2003 The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
2003 Somewhere better than this Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

2002 Extension, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (catalogue)
2002 Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
2002 Spoleto Festival, Charleston, WV, USA

2001 Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art, 49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy
2001 Unpacking Europe, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; toured (catalogue)
2001 The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; toured (catalogue)
2001 Art through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
2001 Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
2001 Secret Victorians, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2001 Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2001 Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

2000 Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, MCA Chicago, IL, USA
2000 Partage d’exotismes, 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
2000 Other Modernities, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
2000 Laboratory. Continental Shift-Artists from the African continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2000 Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London, England
2000 South Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

1999 From where–To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden
1999 Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1999 Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland
1999 Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
1999 Mirror’s Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
1999 In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham
1999 Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham;
1999 Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
1999 Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F.
1998 Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1998 Ethno-antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
1998 Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA
1998 Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain
1998 Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA
1998 Global Vision; New Art from the ‘90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
1997 Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1997 Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
1997 Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966- 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1997 What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, England

1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?, London Printworks Trust, England
1996 Imagined Communities, National Touring Exhibition, Oldham Art Gallery; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton; Colchester Minories; Royal Festival Hall, London and Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1996 Discreet Charm, Visionfest, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool
1996 Inklusion: Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
1996 Jurassic Technology, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
1996 Painting, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
1996 Out of Order, Independent Art School, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England

1995 The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex, Barbican Centre, London, England
1995 Seeing and Believing, The Economist Building, London, England
1995 Original, Gasworks, London, England

1994 2 out of 4 dimensions, Centre 181 Gallery, London, England
1994 Where are they now…?, Byam Shaw Gallery, London, England
1994 Seen/unseen, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England
1994 TENQ, group exhibition in Senegal, West Africa

1993 Space Studios Open Exhibition, London, England

1992 Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

1991 Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, MN; Madison Art Centre, Wisconsin, WI; Memorial Art Museum, Ohio, OH, USA
1991 Goldsmiths College, London, England

1989 Black Art New Directions, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent
1989 Byam Shaw Final year show, London, England

1988 Byam Shaw Concourse Gallery, London, England

Awards and Merits

2016 African Arts Award, National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, New York City, USA
2016 The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Arts Award, New York, USA

2013 Royal Academician, The Royal Academy, London, UK

2012 Fellow of University of the Arts, London, UK

2010 The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award
2010 Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art London, UK

2008 Fourth Plinth Award Nominee, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, London, UK

2007 Honorary Doctorate Degree, Huron University, London, UK

2005 Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), Buckingham Palace, London, UK

2004 IASPIS, International Artists’ Studio Program in Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Turner Prize Nominee, Tate Britain, London, UK

2003 Fellow of Goldsmiths College, London, UK

1999 Shortlisted Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize

1998 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists
1998 Royal Society of Arts, Art for Architecture Award

1992 Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1992 London Arts Board Artist’s Grant, London, UK

Academic Record and Residencies

EDUCATION

1989-1991 Goldsmiths College, London, England
1984-1989 Byam Shaw School of Art, London, England

RESIDENCIES

2004 IASPIS, International Artists’ Studio Program in Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Residency, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
2000 Residency, MCA DePaul University, Chicago, USA

Collections

SELECTED

Arts Council Collection, London, UK
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Rome, Italy
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
Norton Museum of Art, Florida USA
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Stitchting de Onvoltooide, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tate Collection, London, UK
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Wroclaw Museum of Art, Poland
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, SA

Commissions

2019 Wind Sculpture (SG) III, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, SA

2018 Wind Sculpture (SG) I, Public Art Fund Commission, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, USA

2017 Mrs Pinckney and the Emancipated Birds of African Art, Washington, USA

2016 Wind Sculpture VII, Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington, USA
2016 Wind Sculpture VI, British Council UK/Nigeria 2015-16, Ndubuisi Kanu Park, Lagos, Nigeria
2016 RA Family Album, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2014 Wind Sculpture V, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, The New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
2014 Wind Sculpture, Howick Place, Victoria, London, UK

2012 Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Acquisition National Maritime Museum, London, UK (a permanent public sculpture)
2012 Globe Head Ballerina, Royal Opera House, London, UK

2010 Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK

Selected Articles and Reviews

2016 Issue 08, All Fall Down, Article Magazine, 25 October.
2016 Olivennes, Hannah., Arts as a Means of Fighting Prejudice, The New York Times, 6 October
2016 Issue 97, Divide and Conquer, Monocle Magazine, October
2016 Law, Katie, Artist Yinka Shonibare on pushing the boundaries of art and a new fashion for building walls, The Evening Standard, 21 September
2016 Sheerin, Mark, End of Empire: Yinka Shonibare MBE on his exhibition at Margate’s Turner Contemporary, Culture 24 online, 27 April
2016 Black, Paul, Yinka Shonibare: End of Empire, Conflict and Dominion at Turner Contemporary, Artlyst online, 31 March
2016 Le Bron, L., Textile and west African culture, FT.com, 24 June
2016 Yinka Shonibare MBE: Homecoming, THISDAY Style Magazine, 29 January

2015 Sullivan, Robert, Go see Yinka Shonibare at the Morris-jumel mansion This Weekend, The New Yorker, 29 August
2015 Diaz, Nathalie, Of Darkness and Light, The New York Times Magazine, 14 July
2015 Onibada, ade, ‘Not All Africans Are Angry’, The Voice, 25 May
2015 Pohl, John, Visual Arts: Shonibare challenges expectations in exquisite exhibition, Montreal Gazette, 7 May
2015 Delson, Susan, Eliza Jumel’s Ghost Shows Up in ‘Yinka Shonibare MBE: Colonial Arrangements’, The Wall Street Journal, 30 April
2015 London’s favorite fourth plinth artwork is…, Time out, 15 march

2013 Pearman, Hugh, Everything’s just dandy, The Sunday Times Culture, March 2013, p.10
2013 Frankel, Eddy, B(w)anking on it, Time Out London, 12 March, pg. 51
2013 Jones, Jonathan, Yinka Shonibare’s sculptures land in London – the week in art, The Guardian Art Weekly, 8 March
2013 Jones, Jonathan, Shoot to thrill, The Guardian G2, 4 March, pp. 16-18
2013 Lassus, Priscille de, Dossier, Imprimés et touiles peintes, Métiers d’art, March – May issue
2013 Allfree, Claire, My twin lives by Banksy of sculpture, Metro, 28 February
2013 Milliard, Coline, Yinka’s Shonibare’s Gentleman-like Protest at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Artinfo, 27 February
2013 Swengley, Nicole, Yinka Shonibare’s exclusive print for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Financial Times online, 25 February
2013 Duguid, Hannah, Art/Class act with dash of gallows humor, The Independent Radar, 23 February, p.4
2013 Artistic rebel with a cause, Yorkshire Post, 22 February
2013 Wolgamott, L.Kent, “Encounters” superb show of photography from the Sheldon collection, Journal Star online, 16 February
2013 Lacey, Hester, Yinka Shonibare: Message In A Bottle, Billionaire, 15 February
2013 Preview: Yinka Shonibare POP!, FAD, 13 February

2012 Moss, Abigail, Deloitte Ignite at the Royal Opera House – curated by Yinka Shonibare, 4 September
2012 Walters, John L., Deloitte Ignite Africa Weekend – review, The Guardian, 2 September
2012 Arwa Haider, Artist promises a mix of intimacy and chaos, Metro, 31 August
2012 Ossei-Mensah, Larry & Carinya Sharples, Freedom Fighter, Arise Magazine, August, pp. 107-109
2012 Sack, Emily, Yinka Shonibare New Ballerina Sculpture Debuts at Opera House, Artlyst, 26 June
2012 Wright, Karen, In the Studio: Yinka Shonibare, artist, The Independent, 23 June
2012 Young, Kevin, Animalistic Assassin-Like Figures, www.trendhunter.com, 23 June
2012 Kennedy, Maev, In a world of her own – Curtain up on ballerina artowork, The Guardian, 19 June
2012 Dow, Steve, Artist Yinka Shonibare delivers a serious message with wit and whimsy, Canberra Times, 16 June
2012 Art Newspaper Russia, June
2012 Rainforth, Dylan, Review: Invasion, Escape; Aliens do it right!, Art Guide Australia, June
2012 Pena, Anne Marie, A Terrible Beauty: Politics, Sex and the Decline of Empires, Cmagazine, issue 114, Summer
2012 Pollock, Barbara, Arthur Solway: Bringing the West to the East, Artnet, 22 May
2012 Artists to look out for at Frieze Art Fair New York 2012, Huffington Post, 5 May
2012 Little, Mandy, Ship art docks for exhibition, The Mercury, 2 May
2012 Guner, Fisen, The Arts Desk, 23 April
2012 Brown, Mark, Yinka’s ship goes on permanent display in Greenwich, The Guardian, 23 April
2012 Yinka Shonibare Ship in a Bottle finds new home, BBC News online, 23 April
2012 Yinka Shonibare, Nigerian Whose Artwork creates a mark at London’s Trafalgar Square, www.tribune.com, 14 April
2012 Peek, Philip M., African Arts, Spring
2012 Luke, Ben, London Evening Standard, 12 March
2012 Politanoff, Evelyne, Addio del Passato, The Huffington Post, 28 February
2012 Hunt, Jem, Yinka Shonibare: Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Art & Architecture Journal Press, 27 February
2012 Scheifele, Kris, Post-Colonial Mixologist, Art Critical, 26 February
2012 Addio del Passato, Artinfo, 25 February
2012 Massie, Alex, British sailors for British ships, The Spectator, 21 February
2012 Kellaway, Kate, The Crisis Commission, The Observer, 19 February
2012 Hazard, Ruth, COTTONL Global Thread, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Culture 24, 14 February
2012 Finerty, Katherine, Yinka Shonibare’s Message in a Bottle: Hybrid Citizen Ship, Studio Museum, 13 February
2012 Wolf, Rachel, Art + Auction, February (front cover)
2012 Mason, Shana Beth, Yinka Shonibare MBE the Whitehot Interview, Whitehot Magazine, February

2011 Spann, Maria, My space: Yinka Shonibare, artist, tells us how and where he works, The Times, 10 December
2011 Singh, Anita, Museum campaign to buy Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, The Telegraph, 1 December
2011 Kennedy, Maev, Message in a big bottle – appeal to save fourth plinth HMS Victory, The Guardian, 30 November
2011 Jury, Louise, Setting Sail Again, London Evening Standard, 30 November
2011 Shaw, Anny, Flags of Freedom, The Art Newspaper Art Basel Daily Edition, 14 June, p.10
2011 Wallis, William, Anger as black artist’s pieces held, The Financial Times, 28 May, p. 6
2011 Olurin, Titilayo, A Revolution in the Studio, next, 1 May
2011 Alakam, Japhet, Art-inculating Yinka Shonibare’s Hope in Hopelessness, Vanguard, 1 May
2011 Greenstreet, Rosanna, Q&A: Yinka Shonibare, The Guardian, 30 April
2011 Coxhead, Gabriel, Exhibition of the Week, Time Out, 7– 3 April, p.52
2011 Shaw, Anny, Yinka Shonibare Fires all Cannons in Madrid, The Art Newspaper, 15 March
2011 Wullschlager, Jackie, I Know Something About Love, Financial Times, 12 March
2011 Adamson, Glen, Issues/Commentary: Tsunami Africa, Art in America, March, pp. 67-72
2011 Jarque, Fietta, Como Artista, Tienes que ser el Mejor Menitroso, El Pais, 5 February, pp.17-18
2011 Alvarado, Esther, Un ano de exposiciones, Madrid Press, February. p.155
2011 Power list 2011, Power list 2011 Britain’s Most Influential Black People, The Arts, Fashion & Design, p.18

2010 Sontag, Deborah, _Shonibare le Flamboyant, Courrier International, no.1049, 9-15 December, p.67
2010 Yinka Shonibare Art about ‘Big Society,’ The Guardian, 13 October
2010 David, Ariel, Linking the past and the present through art, The New York Times, 7 September
2010 Sheets, Hilarie, The New Jerusalem, ArtCritical, 17 August
2010 Turturro, Valeria, History Re-Awakened by Children, Re-View, 17 June
2010 Sewell, Brian, Oh No! It’s the summer exhibition, The Evening Standard, 10 June
2010 Mirza, Munira, Do black artists need special treatment?, The Guardian, 25 May
2010 Deane, Craig, Message in a Bottle, Time Out London, 20-26 may, pp.40-41
2010 Blunden, Mark, Evening Standard, 20 May
2010 Kissa, Louisa, Art Fabric, New Europe, 16-22 May
2010 Gayford, Martin, Fourth Plinth: Yinka Shonibare interview, The Daily Telegraph, 19 May
2010 Ward, Ossian, The Fourth Plinth, Time Out London, 13 May
2010 Ex, Nicole, Yinka Shinibare MBE, Holland Diep. May–June, pp.86-87
2010 Hayward, Rachel, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, Culture 24, 9 March
2010 Wullschlager, Jackie, Afro Modern, Tate Liverpool, The Financial Times, 2 February
2010 Baran, Jessica, Yinka Shonibare: Mother and Father Worked Hard so I Can Play, Riverfront Times, 20 January
2010 Bischoff, Dan, Post-colonial Party Time, Fibearts, January–February, pp.38-42
2010 Milliard, Coline, ‘Same but Different’, Catalogue Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue 1

2009 Beall, Dickson, SLAM for the holidays, West End World, 23 December
2009 Dawson, Jessica, Yinka Shonibare, skewing history with his images, The Washington Post, 20 November
2009 Judkis, Maura, Yinka Shonibare MBE: “As Artists, We are Liars”, Washington City Paper, 13 November
2009 Geldard, Rebecca, Time Out, 6 November
2009 Lewis, Sarah, Yinka Shonibare: Brooklyn Museum, New York, Artforum, October
2009 Cole, Teju, Shonibare’s fantasies of empowerment, 234 next.com, 10 July
2009 Hoffman, Barbara, Headless Bods, New York Post, 10 July
2009 Genocchio, Benjamin, The Rich Were Different (and Perhaps Still Are), The New York Times, 10 July
2009 Kazakine, Katya, Adam Smith, Ocelots Channel History in Artist’s Textile World, Bloomberg.com, 8 July
2009 Lacayo, Richard, Decaptivating, TIME Magazine, 6 July
2009 Rosenberg, Karen, Fashions of a Postcolonial Provocateur, The New York Times, 3 July
2009 McLaughlin, Mike, Show blows away art world, The Brooklyn Paper, 2 July
2009 Olowu, Duro, Style.com/Vogue, July
2009 McCartney, Alison, Class, Culture and Identity in Party Time, NJ.com, 26 June
2009 Tambay, Defining Blackness Series, Shadow and Act, 21 June
2009 Sontag, Deborah, Challenging cultural stereotypes, International Herald Tribune, 19 June
2009 Sontag, Deborah, Headless Bodies from Bottomless Imagination, The New York Times, 17 June
2009 Bergman, Amerie, Yinka Shonibare MBE @ Museum of Contemporary Art, White Hot, June
2009 Later, Paul, Postcolonial Hybrid fuses art and politics, Flavor Pill, Summer
2009 How schoolchildren shaped the new Trafalgar Square plinth, The Times, 22 May
2009 Knight, Yinka Shonibare at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Christopher, The LA Times 6 April
2009 Hunter, Alice, Encountering Excess, Art of England, Issue 56, April
2009 Jeno, Heather, Hip, British-Born Artist’s Show Ushers in a New Era at SBMA, The Santa Barbara Independent, 31 March
2009 Pote, Mariana, African Art? Yinka Shonibare steps between the real and imagined, Seven, 24 February
2009 Barnett, Laura, Interview, The Guardian G2, 27 January
2009 Ashman, Angela, Different Worlds, Village Voice

2008 Mullan, Kelly, An artist with a lot of bottle, Disability Now Magazine, Issue 14, December
2008 Art World, Artists open domestic spaces, Dec 2008–Jan 2009
2008 Crow, Kelly, Family Flies into Museum, The Wall Street Journal, 25 November
2008 Schwartzkoff, Louise, MCA fortunes wax with works by a citizen of the world, The Sunday Morning Herald, 25 September
2008 Holmes, Pernilla & Wallis, Stephen, Departures, September
2008 Sandison, David, Yinka Shonibare: The Battle of Trafalgar, Independent Online, 24 June
2008 Fourth plinth winners announced, The BBC News Channel, 23 June
2008 Brooks, Richard, Fame up for Grabs in Trafalgar Square, The Sunday Times, 22 June
2008 Hirsh, Faye, Art in America, June-July
2008 Financial Mail, The Wombles of Woodstock, 30 May, p.85
2008 Wyndham, Constance, Yinka Shonibare, Art + Auction, February, pp.54-58
2008 The battle of Trafalgar Plinth, London Paper, 8 January
2008 Message in a giant bottle: Interview, The Observer, 29 June
2008 MCA fortunes wax with works by a citizen of the world, The Sydney Herald, 25 September, p.16

2007 Young, gifted and black, The Independent on Sunday, 4 November
2007 Class not colour, Time Out, 17-23 October
2007 Jones, Ronald, Yinka Shonibare: Musee du Quai Branly, Artforum, October
2007 Kultureflash.net, no.124, 3 August
2007 Hemmings, Jessica, Post Cultural Hybrid, Surface Design, Fall, pp.34-37
2007 The Independent, 27 July (EXTRA centrefold)
2007 Lotz, Corrina, Scratch the Service, www.aworldtowin.net, July
2007 Art in America, Issue 6, June/July
2007 Williams, Stephen, A Garden of Love, African Business, June
2007 Darwent, Charles, Tales from the city: Paris, Art Review, June
2007 Cork, Richard, In the Labyrinth, The Spectator, 12 May
2007 Harris, Gareth, Art is not lost in political maze, The Independent, 3 May
2007 Wajid, Sara, The frisson of difference, Museums Journal, May
2007 Satz, Aura, Tema Celeste, no. 120, March/April, pp.86-87
2007 Pool, Hannah, Uncomfortable Truths, V&A Magazine, issue 12, Spring, pp.60-62
2007 Riding, Alan, Britain Confronts Legacy of Slave Trade, The New York Times, 20 March
2007 Jury, Louise, The Independent, 17 January, pp.16-17
2007 The Great Showman, The Guardian 13 January, p.12-13
2007 Davies, Serena, Where is the new Guernica, Daily Telegraph, 9 January, p.23
2007 Ward, Ossian, Interview, Time Out, January 3-10
2007 Ebner, Jörn, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2 January

2006 Flower Time, The Art Newspaper, no.175, December
2006 Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, Dandy in the undergrowth_, The Times, 28 November, pp.14-15
2006 I_nverted Commas, Pitch Kentucky Arts & Culture, Issue 2, pre-fall
2006 Artkrush, September
2006 Lynn, Victoria, Art Review, August, p.133
2006 Castro, Jan Garden, In Art Anything is Possible, Sculpture, July/August, pp.21-27
2006 Mendelsohn, Meredith, Art + Auction, July, p.49
2006 Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, 21-28 June, p.39
2006 Reed, Robert, Daily Yomiuri Online, 10 June
2006 Esquire, April, p.132
2006 Chikukwa, Raphael and Robecchi, Michele, Contemporary, no. 88

2005 Interview, Artforum, December
2005 Buchhart, Dieter and Fuchs, Mathias, cover and interview, Kunstforum International, no. 178, November-January
2005 Hales, Linda, The Washington Post, 11 September
2005 Sischy, Ingrid, The Artist Formally Known for Prints, The New York Times Style Magazine, Spring, pp.186-189
2005 Johnson, Ken, A Sculptor From 2 Cultures Takes a Tour of Colonialism, The New York
2005 Times, 14 October
2005 Finch, Charlie, Artnet Magazine, 13 October
2005 Wilson, Michael, Artforum, 11 October
2005 Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, 2 October
2005 Pollock, David, The List Magazine, July 21-August 4, p.91
2005 Picard, Charmaine, The Art Newspaper, no.162, October, p.2, p.18
2005 Krudy, Catherine E., Flavorpill NYC, 27 September-3 October
2005 Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 2 September
2005 Ponant, Pierre, Beaux Arts Magazine, August
2005 Holmes, Pernilla, Spoon, March/April, pp.23-24
2005 Brownell, Ginanne and Sarah Sennott, Front and Centre Newsweek, 14 February
2005 Rosenberg, Karen, New York Magazine, 17 October
2005 Picton, John, Cooper-Hewitt Design Journal, Fall, pp.8-11
2005 Downey, Anthony, Bomb, no. 93, Fall, pp. 24-31
2005 Baynard, Ed, Modern Painters, April, pp. 84-89
2005 Hudson, Mark, Telegraph (online edition), 22 January
2005 Biro, Matthew, Art Papers, 22 January, p.51
2005 Cork, Richard, New Statesman, (online edition), 1 January
2005 Larsen, Lars Bang, Artforum, January, pp.172-173
2005 Feaver, William, ARTNews, p.26

2004 Wullschlager, Jackie, The Financial Times, 1 December
2004 Wright, Karen, Modern Painters, December-January, p. 116
2004 Portrait of the artist, The Guardian Guide, 20-26 November
2004 Kent, Sarah, School of Baroque, Time Out London, 24 November – 1 December
2004 Januszczak, Waldemar, The Sunday Times Culture, 11 November
2004 Edwards, Charlotte, Independent on Sunday, 24 October
2004 Jones, Jonathan, The Guardian, 20 October
2004 Giuliano, Charles, Dressed for Succes: Not Necessarily Out of Africa, NY Arts, October
2004 Glover, Michael, Political lessons à la mode, The Times, 20 October
2004 Harper, Catherine, Alien Nation, Selvedge, September/October
2004 Interview, University of the London Magazine, Autumn/Winter, pp. 6-10
2004 Tulloch, Carol, V&A Magazine, Autumn
2004 Temin, Christine, Africa Now, The Boston Globe, 9 April
2004 Pollack, Barbara, Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Art News, April
2004 Downey, Anthony, Yinka Shonibare in Conversation, Wasafiri, Issue 41
2004 Spring, pp. 31-36
2004 Stephens, Judy, The Quilters Guild, Spring
2004 Time Out New York, 29 January/5 February
2004 Greenwood, Phoebe, The Times, 2 February
2004 Martin, Courtney, Flash Art, February, p. 57
2004 Time Out London, 7/14 January
2004 Holert, Tom, Artforum, January, p.85
2004 Re-dressing Power. The Art of Yinka Shonibare, 2wice, Vol 7. No. 2, pp. 82-89

2003 Kultureflash.net, No. 70, 17 December
2003 Lack, Jessica, The Guardian, 15 December
2003 Buck, Louisa, The dandy highwayman strikes again, The Art Newspaper, December
2003 Cotter, Holland, An African Diaspora Show Asks: What is Africanness? What is Diaspora?, New York Times, 21 November, p.E34
2003 Griffin, Tim, Artforum, November, cover, pp.154-163, 206, 212
2003 Enwezor, Okwui, Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art/Snoeck, November, p.177
2003 The Guide, The Guardian, 29 November/5 December, p. 35
2003 Yinka Shonibare: of hedonism, masquerade, carnivalesque and power. A Conversation with Okwui Enwezar, Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art/Snoeck, November
2003 Gronlund, Melissa, ARTnews, Summer, p.34
2003 Njami, Simon, ARCO, No. 26 Spring 2003, pp.13-14
2003 Art Press, March, pp. 29-32

2002 Murray, Derek Conrad, NKA Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter, pp.110-111
2002 Holmes, Pernilla, The Empire’s New Clothes, Artnews, October, pp. 118-121
2002 Parker, Carol, Art Review, September, pp. 96-97
2002 Boyes, Roger, The Times, 26 June, pp. 10-11
2002 Yinka Shonibare, Zoo, 13 June, pp. 56-57
2002 Dorment, Richard, The Daily Telegraph, 12 June, p. 21
2002 Weinstein, Jeff, Artforum, no.9, May, pp.174-175
2002 Pollack, Barbara, Art Monthly, May, pp. 23-25
2002 Downey, Anthony, Imposters, Contemporary, April, pp. 35-39
2002 Downey, Anthony, Wasafiri, Spring, pp. 47-50
2002 Sirmans, Franklin, When the Clothes Make the Man, Time Out New York, 7/14 February

2001 Wrigglesworth, Kirsty, The Independent, 13 December
2001 Campagnola, Sonia, Flash Art, no.230, November
2001 Corbetta, Carolina, Vogue Italia, November
2001 Kennedy, Maev, The Guardian, 30 October, p.13
2001 Wilson, Lucy, (a-n) For Artists, October
2001 Birnbaum, Daniel, Artforum, September, pp.155-157
2001 Wilson, Andrew, Art Monthly, July/August
2001 Kent, Sarah, Time Out, 9-16 May
2001 Güner, Fisun, Metro, 26 April
2001 Ruane, Medb, The Sunday Times, 25 March
2001 Cork, Richard, The Times, 24 January, pp.17-19
2001 Cameron, Neil, The Scotsman, 6 March

2000 Grant, Simon, Evening Standard, 18 August
2000 Sumpter, Helen, The Big Issue, 10 July
2000 Hubbard, Sue, The Independent on Sunday, 2 July
2000 Kent, Sarah, Time Out, 5-12 July
2000 Cammbell-Johnston, Rachel, The Times, 21 June
2000 Cameron, Dan, Journal of Contemporary African Art, 21 June, no.11-12
2000 Tate Magazine, issue 2, Summer

1999 Marks, Laura U, Fuse Magazine, Winter, pp. 44-46
1999 Oguibe, Olu, Finding a Place: Nigerian Artists in the Contemporary Art World, Art
1999 Journal, Summer, pp.31-41
1999 Cotter, Holland, New York Times, 16 May
1999 Halle, Howard, Just Dandy, Time Out New York, 13-20 May
1999 Cameron, Dan, Art News, May
1999 Ratnam, Niru, Art Monthly, April, no.225, pp.40-41
1999 Lynch, Fiona, Birmingham Post, March
1999 Brown, Neal, Frieze, January/February, issue 44, pp.88-89
1999 Grimley, Terry, Birmingham Post, February
1999 Halliburton, Rachel, Why, Mr Darcy. You’re Black, The Independent, 1 February
1999 Halkes, Petra, Border Crossings, vol. 17, no. 14

1998 Atha, Christine, Artists Newsletter, November
1998 Janus, Elizabeth, Artforum International, November
1998 Review Noir, no.30, September-November
1998 Das Kunst Bulletin, no.10, 10 October
1998 Searle, Adrian, The Guardian, 6 October
1998 Hines, Nancy, Untitled, no.17, October
1998 Ogunwa, Denrele, Untold Magazine, October/November
1998 O’Kane, Paul, Pride Magazine, October
1998 Cork, Richard, The Times, October
1998 Tozer, John, Art Monthly, October
1998 Farquarson, Alex, Art Monthly, October
1998 Black Film Bulletin, vol6, Issue 2/3, Summer/Autumn

1997 Enwezor, Okwui, Flash Art, November/December
1997 Cotter, Holland, New York Times Weekend, 24 October
1997 Kent, Sarah, Time Out, 8-15 October
1997 Stein, Judith E., Art in America, June
1997 Burrows, David, Art Monthly, February
1997 Craddock, Sacha, The Times, 14 January
1997 Currah, Mark, Time Out, 22-29 January

1996 Hubbard, Sue, Time Out, May
1996 Enwezor, Okwui, Frieze, January/February

1995 Mercer, Kobena, Frieze, November/December
1995 Guha, Tania, Third Text, Summer
1995 Hall, James, The Guardian, The Guide, April
1995 Coomer, Martin, Time Out, April

1994 Hill, Millie, Disability Arts Magazine, October

1993 Court, Elsbeth, African Arts, January

1992 Graham-Dixon, Andrew, The Independent, February

Publications

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2018 Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, Met Breur, New York, USA

2017 From Life, Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition Catalogue, London, UK
2017 Enlightened Princesses, Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Edited by Joanna Marschner, Yale Center for British Art, Yale, USA

2016 BODY/PLAY/POLITICS, Edited by Otani Kaoruko and text by Kimura Eriko, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan

2015 20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2014 Yinka Shonibare MBE: Egg Fight, Foundation Blachere, Apt, France (Exhibition Catalogue)
2014 Yinka Shonibare MBE, edited by Rachel Kent, Presetl and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia (Revised and Expanded edition)

2013 FABRICA-TION, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, England (includes an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist)

2012 Artwriting, Nation and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The ‘Englishness’ of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century, edited by Mark A. Cheetham, Ashgate, Surrey, England

2011 I Know Something About Love, Yinka Shonibare (text contribution), Parasol Unit, Koenig Books, London, England

2010 Looking Up, Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Monaco
2010 Before and After Modernism, Byam Shaw, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, London, England
2010 KulTur i Afrika, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
2010 Pattern ID, Ellen Rudolph, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA

2008 Yinka Shonibare, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2008 Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Odile and Odette, published by ACA Gallery of SCAD, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2008 Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Rachel Kent and Robert Hobbs, Prestel and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

2007 Jardin d’amour, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
2007 Fashion Accidently, edited by Hsiangling Lai and Iris Huang, Contemporary Art Foundation / Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei

2006 RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum
2006 Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon Press
2006 Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Merrell, London, England
2006 Contemporary Commonwealth, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2006 Around the World in Eighty Days, edited by Claire Fitzsimmons, Kit Hammonds, Margot Heller and Jens Hoffman, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, London, England

2005 Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History, edited by Nato Thompson, published by Massachusets Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusets
2005 Acting Out: The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, essay by Kathleen
2005 Edwards, University of Washington Press, Seattle
2005 Zürich Development Center, Zürich Insurance Company, Zürich, Switzerland
2005 Shades of Black, Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, Duke University Press, Durham, NC; inIVA, London, England
2005 A Sense of Place, inIVA, London, England
2005 Exploring Art. A Global, Thematic Approach, Thomson Wadsworth, USA
2005 Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2005 Samtidskonst för lävare och andra intresserade, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 The Israel Museum Jerusalem, Harry N. Abrams Inc. New York
2005 L’art de la friche, essai sur l’art africain contemporain, Flammarion, France

2004 Turner Prize, Tate, London, England
2004 Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, MA
2004 Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Selvedge…The Fabric of Your Life; The Architecture Issue, London, England
2004 The Culture Game, University of Minnesota Press, Minnesota, MN
2004 Continental Drift, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, FL
2004 Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands and Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria

2003 Doublures, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
2003 Looking Both Ways-Art of the African Diaspora, edited by Laurie Ann Farrell, published by the Museum for African Art, Long Island City, Queens, New York

2002 Attitude, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
2002 Double Dress, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2002 Yinka Shonibare, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

2001 Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2001 Yinka Shonibare. Be-Muse, Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Rome, Italy
2001 Enwezor, Okwui, Tricking the Mind: the work of Yinka Shonibare, in Authentic/Eccentric
2001 Conceptualism in African Art, 49th Venice Biennale, Italy
2001 Yinka Shonibare, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
2001 Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2001 Bo01 City of Tomorrow, European Housing Expo, Malmo, Sweden
2001 The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, München, Germany
2001 Camouflage, Centre of Contemporary Art of Southern Africa, Johannesburg
2001 Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
2001 Bamgboyé, O. A. What is Print?, in Technology and Culture, Witte de With Center For Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2000 Intelligence, Tate Britain, London, England
2000 South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
2000 Other Modernities, The London Institute

1999 Mirror’s Edge, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
1999 Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1999 Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
1999 Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, London, England

1998 Personal Effects: Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1998 Secret Victorians, Arts Council touring exhibition
1998 Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada

1997 Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
1997 Present Tense, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1997 Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1997 What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, England

1996 Out of Order, Independent Art Space, London, England
1996 Annotations 1, Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England
1996 Inklusion: Exklusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
1996 Jurassic Technology, Tenth Biennale of Sydney, Australia
1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?, London Printworks Trust

1995 Imagined Communities, National Touring Exhibition, The South Bank Centre, London, England
1995 The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex, Barbican Centre, London, England

1994 Seen/unseen, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England

1992 Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

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