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Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article.Shonibare was born to wealthy Nigerian parents living in Shonibare’s art was placed on its trajectory by the comments of one of his teachers, who asked him why he didn’t make “authentic African art.” As someone who had spoken In part because of his experimentation with so many media, Shonibare’s art defies easy categorization. Check out Britannica's new site for parents!
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Digital chromogenic print © Yinka Shonibare, MBE. Yinka Shonibare, b 1962, UK/Nigeria.
Kathleen Kuiper was Senior Editor, Arts & Culture, Encyclopædia Britannica until 2016. Image size: 185 x 127 cm ... All images are property of Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA).
Yinka Shonibare MBE is a British-Nigerian contemporary artist known for his sculptural installations that explore issues of Post-colonialism. 1962) is an artist who was born in London but lived in Nigeria from the age of three until he was 16, at which age he relocated to London to attend school.
Shonibare was born in 1962 in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. Yinka Shonibare MBE (British, b. Drawing from his own experience growing up in the U.K. and Nigeria, Yinka Shonibare investigates political and social histories related to post-colonialism and globalization, reconfiguring iconic imagery from the Western art-historical canon with a playful and ironic touch.
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Login Worlds and Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USAActing 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, USATen-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UKAfrica Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; toured to Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, JapanAfrican Voices, New Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, SwedenAfrican Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USAContinental Drift: Installations by Ilya Kabakov, Joan Jonas, Juan Muños, Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, FL, USAFlexible 4: Identities, Landes Museen, Linz, AustriaBetween The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USABlack President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, san Francisco, CA, USAYinka Shonibare, Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; toured to Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (solo)Vasa, Commission for the opening of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)Yinka Shonibare, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA (solo)Play with me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo)Double Dress, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; toured to Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Israel Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, USA; and Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (solo)Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, The Museum for African Art, New York, USALove over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UKBlack President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY, USAFlexible 4: Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UKSupernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA(doublures), vêtements de l'art contemporain, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, CanadaThe African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, SwitzerlandSomewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USAExtension, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle, Stockholm, SwedenAttitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, JapanChristmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)Be-muse, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy (solo)Stephen Friedman Gallery and 2nd Floor, 12 Dolland Street, London, UK (solo)Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art, 49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, ItalyUnpacking Europe, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, NetherlandsThe Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, GermanyArt through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, NorwayGive and Take, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UKSecret Victorians, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USAVantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IrelandAge of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, MCA Chicago, IL, USAPartage d’exotismes, 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, FranceOther Modernities, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UKContinental Shift: Artists from the African Continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NetherlandsIntelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London, UKSouth Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, SwitzerlandEffective, defective, creative, permanent video installation, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London, UK (solo)Affectionate Men, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (solo)Diary of a Victorian Dandy Project, INIVA; toured to Castle Museum, Nottingham; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (solo)Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; toured to Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, UK (solo)From Where–to Here: Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, SwedenKunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, GermanyHeaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UKMirror’s Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DenmarkCitibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UKIn the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham, UKSecret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USASensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USACinco Continentes y una Ciudad (Five Continents and a City), Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico D.F.Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UKCrossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CanadaLiberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USATransatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, SpainBeyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USAGlobal Vision; New Art from the ‘90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, GreeceDiary of a Victorian Dandy, site-specific project on the London Underground, commissioned and produced by INIVA, London, UK (solo)Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids, Tablet, the Tabernacle, London; toured to Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, UK (solo)Present Tense, contemporary project series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo)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, USAPortable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UKTrade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South AfricaTransforming 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, USAPictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New ZealandPledge Allegiance to A Flag?, London Printworks TrustImagined 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, UKDiscreet Charm, Visionfest, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, UKInklusion: Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AustriaJurassic Technology, 10th Biennale of Sydney, AustraliaOut of Order, Independent Art School, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UKThe Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex, Barbican Centre, London, UKSeeing and Believing, The Economist Building, London, UKDouble Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London, UK (solo)2 out of 4 dimensions, Centre 181 Gallery, London, UKWhere are they now...?, Byam Shaw Gallery, London, UKBarclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UKInterrogating 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, USABlack Art New Directions, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent, UK
His artistry encompasses painting, sculpture, photography and film, where he seeks to explore issues of race and class. In paintings such as The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Asia) 2008 C-print mounted on aluminum. of 5, 122 X 183 cm (48 X 72 in) © Yinka Shonibare, MBE.
A signature element of his work is his use of so-called Born in the UK, this contemporary African artist moved to Lagos as a 3 yr-old and then returned to London to go to Art College. In Drawing from his own experience growing up in the U.K. and Nigeria, Yinka Shonibare investigates political and social histories related to post-colonialism and globalization, reconfiguring iconic imagery from the Western art-historical canon with a playful and ironic touch.
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Categories He returned to the UK to study Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London and Goldsmiths College, London, where he received his Master’s in Fine Art. All images are property of Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA). Pictorial Quilts. Painting. Photograph by Marcus Leith.
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