Yinka Shonibare MBE, FGC
(Member of the Order of the British Empire, Fellow of Goldsmiths College)

Born: 1962 in London
Lives and works in London

Education

1989-19
91 Goldsmiths College

1984-19
89 Byam Shaw School of Art

One-Person Exhibitions (selected)

2010
Yinka Shonibare, MBE – new commission, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2009
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2008
Odile and Odette, Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney; touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York
Prospero’s Monsters, James Cohan Gallery, New York

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

2006
Yinka Shonibare Installation, Speed Museum, Kentucky, KY, USA
Flower Time, Gallery, London

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

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

2003
Play with me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Double Dress, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; toured to Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, USA and Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (catalogue)

2002
Christmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London
Britannia project, Tate Britain, London
Be-muse, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (brochure)
Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa (catalogue)

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

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

1999
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 (catalogue)
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA

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

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

1995
Sun, Sea and Sand, BAC Gallery, London

1994
Double Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London

1989
Byam Shaw Gallery, London
Bedford Hill Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2008
Space Now!, The Triangle Gallery at Space Studios, London
Angaza Afrika, The October Gallery, London
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Body Space, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
Fourth Plinth Commission, National Gallery, London

2007
Crossing the Water, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford; travelling to City Gallery, Leicester (2008)
Stardust or the last border, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Role Exchange, Sean Kelly, New York, NY
African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Check-List Luanda Pop, African Pavillion, 52nd Venice Biennale
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
Tomorrow Now: When Design Meets Science Fiction, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
War and Discontent, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2006
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Los Usos de la Pintura II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico (curated by Julieta González)
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada
Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
A Historic Occasion, Artists Making History, MASS MoCA, MA, USA
East Wing Collection No. 7 Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London
Around The World In Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, London
Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY, USA
Artificial Afrika, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, NY, 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, CA, USA
Woman Women, Ville de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland; toured to the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; Palais des Beaux Arts/Entrepõt Royal Tour & Taxis (curated by Adelina von Furstenberg)
Take Two. Worlds and Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
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)
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
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
African Voices, New Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, Sweden
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2004
African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA
Continental Drift: Installations by Ilya Kabakov, Joan Jonas, Juan Muños, Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, New York, NY, USA
Flexible 4: Identities, Landes Museen, Linz, Austria
Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
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)
Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY, USA, (catalogue)
Flexible 4: Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Supernova: 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, Québec, Canada (catalogue)
Independence, South London Gallery, London
The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
Somewhere better than this Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

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

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

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

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

1998
Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F.
Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Ethno-antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA
Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain
Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA
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
Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
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
What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London

1996
Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?, London Printworks Trust
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
Discreet Charm, Visionfest, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool
Inklusion:Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Jurassic Technology, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Painting, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Out of Order, Independent Art School, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester

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

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

1993
Space Studios Open Exhibition, London

1992
Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London

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
Goldsmiths College, London

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

1988
Byam Shaw Concourse Gallery, London

Publications and Catalogues (selected)

2007
Jardin d’amour, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France

2006
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon Press
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Merrell, London
Contemporary Commonwealth, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

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

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

2003
Doublures, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
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
Double Dress, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Yinka Shonibare, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2001
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Yinka Shonibare. Be-Muse, Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Rome, Italy
Enwezor, Okwui, Tricking the Mind: the work of Yinka Shonibare, in Authentic/Eccentric–Conceptualism in African Art, 49th Venice Biennale, Italy
Yinka Shonibare, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Bo01 City of Tomorrow, European Housing Expo, Malmo, Sweden
The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, München, Germany
Camouflage, Centre of Contemporary Art of Southern Africa, Johannesburg
Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery, London
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
South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Other Modernities, The London Institute

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

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

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

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

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

1994
Seen/unseen, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

1992
Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London

Bibliography (selected)

2007
Kultureflash.net, no. 124, August 3
The Independent, July 27, (EXTRA centrefold)
Lotz, Corrina, www.aworldtowin.net, July
Darwent, Charles, Art Review, June
Williams, Stephen, African Business, June
Cork, Richard, The Spectator, May 12
Harris, Gareth, The Independent, May 3
Wajid, Sara, Museums Journal, May
Pool, Hannah, V&A Magazine, issue 12, Spring, pp. 60-62
Satz, Aura, Tema Celeste, no. 120, March/April, pp. 86-87
Riding, Alan, The New York Times, March 20
Jury, Louise, The Independent, January 17, pp. 16-17
Shonibare, MBE, Yinka, The Guardian, January 13, pp. 12-13
Davies, Serena, Daily Telegraph, January 9, pg. 23
Ebner, J"rn, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 2

2006
Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, The Times, November 28, pp. 14-15
Chikukwa, Raphael and Robecchi, Michele, Contemporary, no. 88
JC, Artkrush, September
Glueck, Grace, The New York Times, August
Garden Castro, Jan, Sculpture, vol. 25, no. 6, July/August, pp. 22-27 and cover
Lynn, Victoria, ArtReview, July, p. 133
Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, June 21-28, p. 39
Mendelsohn, Meredith, Art and Auction, p. 49
Reed, Robert, Daily Yomiuri Online, June 10
McQuaid, Clare
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Esquire, April, p. 132

2005-20
06 Allison, Maya, RISD Museum, November 11-January 22

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

2004-20
05 Wright, Karen, Modern Painters, December-January, p. 116

2004
Greenwood, Phoebe, The Times, December 6
Coren, Giles, The Times, December 4
Wullschlager, Jackie, The Financial Times, December 1
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Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, November 24- December 1
Interview, University of the Arts London Magazine, Autumn/Winter, pp. 6-10
The Australian, November 22
Portrait of the artist, The Guardian Guide, November 20-26
Januszczak, Waldemar, The Sunday Times Culture, November 11
Sawtell, Jeff, Morning Star, November 9
Cooper, Emmanuel, Tribune, November 5
Hensher, Philip, The Mail on Sunday, October 31, p. 81
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Black, Catriona, Sunday Herald: Seven Days, October 24
Jones, Jonathan, The Guardian, October 20
Dorment, Richard, The Telegraph, October 20
Dorment, Richard, The Guardian, October 20, pp. 12-13
Glover, Michael, The Times, October 20
Anderson, Hephzibah, Evening Standard, October 15-21
Giuliano, Charles, NY Arts, October, p. 26
Harris, Lucian, The Art Newspaper, (What’s On), October
Harper, Dr. Catherine, Selvedge, issue 2, September/October
Herbert, Martin, Artforum, p. 116
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Gleeson, David, Canadian Art, Summer
Saunders, Jo, Selvedge, issue 00, May/June
Lim, Chai Hong, Guardian, May 18
Emin, Christine, The Boston Globe, April 9
Pollack, Barbara, ARTnews, April, p. 120
Andrews, Lisa, Contemporary, April
Hemmings, Jessica, Fibrearts, March/April
Friedman, Stephen, ARTnews, March, p. 139
Searle, Adrian, The Guardian, February 17
Searle, Adrian, The Guardian, February 26
Martin, Courtney, Flash Art, February, p. 57
Greenwood, Phoebe, The Times, February 2
Downey, Anthony, Interview, Wasafiri, Spring, pp. 30-36
Stephens, Judy, The Quilters Guild, Spring
Downey, Anthony, NY ARTS Magazine, January/February
Stivers, Valerie, Time Out New York, January 29-February 5
Ogilvie, Jen, Time Out London, January 7-14
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2wice, vol. 7, no. 2

2003
Kultureflash.net, no. 70, December 17
Lack, Jessica, The Guardian, December 15
Buck, Louisa, interview, The Art Newspaper, December
Lack, Jessica, The Guardian Guide, November 29-December 5
Cotter, Holland, The New York Times, November 21, p. E34
Griffin, Tim, Artforum, November, cover, pp. 154-163, 206, 212
Enwezor, Okwui, Looking Both Ways, Museum for African Art/Snoeck, November, p. 177
Gronlund, Melissa, ARTnews, Summer, p. 34
Art Press, March, pp. 29-32
Njami, Simon, ARCO, no. 26, Spring, pp. 13-14

2002
Murray, Derek Conrad, NKA Contemporary Art, Fall/Winter, pp. 110-111
Holmes, Pernilla, Artnews, October, cover, pp. 118-121
Parker, Carol, Art Review, September, pp. 96-97
Boyes, Roger, The Times, June 26, pp. 10-11
Shonibare, Yinka, Zoo, June 13, pp. 56-57
Dorment, Richard, The Daily Telegraph, June 12, p. 21
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Jalouse, no. 50, May
Pollack, Barbara, Art Monthly, May, pp. 23-25
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Downey, Anthony, Wasafiri, Spring, pp. 47-50
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Di Genova, A, Marie Claire (Italy), January

2001-20
02 Roma Sur la Terre, Winter

2001
Beatrice, Luca, Arte Mondadori, December
Morelli, Francesca, Vernissage, Il Giornale dell’Arte, December
Nigrizia, December
Bonazzi, Fiammette, Gulliver, December
Agostinis, Valentina, Carnet-Black, December
Interni, December
Casadio, Mariuccia, Vogue Italia, December
De Santis, Linda, La Repubblica, December 15
Wrigglesworth, Kirsty, The Independent, December 13
Wrigglesworth, Kirsty, The Guardian
Reynolds, Nigel, The Daily Telegraph
Corriere della Sera Sette, no. 50, December 13
Costantini, Constanzo, Il Messaggero, December 10
Bonazzoli, Francesca, Corriere della Sera
Pratesi, L, Venerdi di Repubblica, December 7
Calendario, Trovaroma, December 6
Del Drago, E, Il Manifesto
Colonnelli, Lauretta, Cronaca di Roma, Corriere della Sera,
December 5
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de Candia, M, Trovaroma, November 29
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November 27
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Mammi, Alessandra, L’Espresso, November 16-22
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Birnbaum, Daniel, Artforum, September, pp. 155-157
Wilson, Andrew, Art Monthly, July/August,
Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, May 9-16
Güner, Fisun, Metro, April 26
Ruane, Medb, The Sunday Times, March 25
Cork, Richard, The Times, January 24, pp. 17-19
Cameron, Neil, The Scotsman, March 6

2000
Tate Magazine, issue 2, Summer
Grant, Simon, Evening Standard, August 18
Sumpter, Helen, The Big Issue, July 10
Hubbard, Sue, The Independent on Sunday, July 2
Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, July 5-12, p. 54
Cambell-Johnston, Rachel, The Times, June 21
Cameron, Dan, Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 11-12

1999
Halkes, Petra, Border Crossings, vol. 17, no. 14
Marks, Laura U, Fuse Magazine, Winter, pp. 44-46
Oguibe, Olu, Art Journal, Summer, pp.31-41
Cotter, Holland, New York Times, May 16
Cameron, Dan, Art News, May
Halle, Howard, Time Out New York, May 13-20
Ratnam, Niru, Art Monthly, April, pp. 40-41
Lynch, Fiona, Birmingham Post, March
Russel Taylor, John, The Times Metro, February 20-26
Grimley, Terry, Birmingham Post, February 16
Halliburton, Rachel, The Independent, February 1
Brown, Neal, Frieze, issue 44, January/February, pp.88-89

1998
Atha, Christine, Artists Newsletter, November
Janus, Elizabeth, Artforum International, November
Review Noir, no. 30, September/November
Das Kunst Bulletin, no. 10, October 10
Searle, Adrian, The Guardian, October 6
Space, The Guardian, October 2
Hines, Nancy, Untitled, no. 17, October
Attitude, October
Ogunwa, Denrele, Untold Magazine, October/November
O’ Kane, Paul, Pride Magazine, October
Cork, Richard, The Times, October 2, p. 42
Tozer, John, Art Monthly, October
Time Out, October
Farquarson, Alex, Art Monthly, October
Black Film Bulletin, vol. 6, issue 2/3, Summer/Autumn

1997
Enwezor, Okwui, Flash Art, November/December
Creighton, Deborah S. East-side Resident, October 29-November 4 Cotter, Holland, The New York Times Weekend, October 24
Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, October 8-15
Stein, Judith E., Art in America, June
Burrows, David, Art Monthly, February
Craddock, Sacha, The Times, January 14
Currah, Mark, Time Out London, January 22-29

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

1995
Mercer, Kobena, Frieze, November/December, pp. 38-41
Guha, Tania, Third Text, Summer
Hall, James, The Guardian Guide, April
Coomer, Martin, Time Out London, April

1994
Hill, Millie, Disability Arts Magazine, October

1993
Court, Elsbeth, African Arts, January

1992
Graham-Dixon, Andrew, The Independent, February
Kent, Sarah, Time Out London, February

Awards and Residencies

2007
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Huron University

2005
Awarded the MBE

2004
IASPIS, International Artists' Studio Program in Stockholm, Sweden

2003
Fellow of Goldsmiths College, London

2001
Residency, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2000
Residency, MCA DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

1999
Shortlisted Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize

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

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

Public Collections (selected)

Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Speed Art Museum, Louisville
RISD Museum, Providence
Tate Collection, London
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Magasin 3, Stockholm
National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Rome
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
Arts Council Collection, London
Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh