Yinka Shonibare news

Shonibare’s installation, Kites for Queens, will feature nine hand-painted Dutch wax batik kites suspended within the terminal.

Guest curator Edward Enninful OBE speaks with Yinka Shonibare, ahead of The 90s a landmark exhibition curated by Edward Enninful at Tate Britain.

 

Yinka Shonibare’s 'Abstract Bronze IV' captures the idea of harnessing the wind, with the sculpture resembling a vast sheet of fabric, billowing in the breeze. Imbued with a remarkable sense of dynamism, the sculpture embodies the movement of the air as if it is about to dance or move away.

Material Worlds: Contemporary Artists and Textiles explores how artists are using textiles in surprising and radical ways.

Black Gold: Stories Untold invites 17 contemporary artists to reflect on the resilience, struggles, and triumphs of African Americans who lived in California from the Gold Rush to the Reconstruction period following the Civil War (c. 1849–1877).

Yinka Shonibare joins Eva Langret, Director of Frieze London, for an insightful discussion exploring the themes that shape his work.

Black Earth Rising explores the splendour of nature through paintings, sculptures, films, and works on paper by some of today’s most celebrated artists of African diasporic, Latin American, and Native identity. 

World of Pattern investigates how, in art from various periods and cultures, watercolour has often played a central role in the development of ideas involving patterns.

Yinka Shonibare showcases Discobolus (after Naukydes) on the the 20th anniversary of the Gottorfer Globus at the museum's Globushaus.

BBC shares a short film of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA as part of their Arts in Motion documentary series. The artist speaks briefly on themes of identity, colonialism, and cultural exchange in his work, referring to his 2010 Fourth Plinth commission, recent exhibition at Serpentine and Guest Artists Space Foundation, Lagos.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Illuminating aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue are among the first to examine nearly a quarter century of production by Black artists.

Set within the context of global climate anxiety and planetary health concerns, Earthbound showcases existing and newly commissioned works by nine artists and community makers.

The True Size of Africa brings together major contemporary artworks with sound and spatial installations realised especially for the show by artists from Africa and its global diaspora.

With over eighty works, the group exhibition The Invention of the Stranger in Art sheds light on the construction and representation of 'foreignness' in European art.

Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture explores the powerful connection between sports and society through a diverse range of artistic perspectives.

Curated by artist Caroline Achaintre, the artists in Material Worlds take the everyday, intimate and accessible qualities of textiles to create artworks that are theatrical, bold, unsettling and humorous.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA's sculpture, Hibiscus Rising, has been shortlisted for the 2024 PSSA Marsh Award for excellence in public sculpture.

A Gathering on Art and Land is a day centring art and design-led approaches to planting, farming, seeding, gardening and burying. 

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA's work Revolution Kid (Calf) is displayed in Kunstmuseum Den Haag's permanent collection.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA’s editions Modern Spiritual I, Modern Spiritual II and Modern Spiritual III and Clare Wood's prints Flat Foot, Unstable and Vauxhall are featured in the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2024.