Yinka Shonibare news

'Material (SG) II', by Yinka Shonibare CBE, which forms part of the artist’s 'Wind Sculpture' series, will be unveiled in 2021 at the outdoor plaza at the new office building, 360 Rosemary. The sculpture was commissioned in collaboration with Related Companies, The West Palm Beach Art in Public Places (AiPP) Program and city of West Palm Beach. 

Yinka Shonibare CBE, ‘End of Empire’, Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, England Deborah Roberts, ‘When you see me’, Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), Dallas, Texas, USA Deborah Roberts, ‘Untitled’, Manchester...

Yinka Shonibare CBE and fifteen other leading UK-based artists have each made a new limited edition print which they have generously contributed to 'The Help Portfolio', 2020. All profits from the sale of this boxed collection of prints will be donated to sixteen charities selected by the artists involved. 

House of Vans London and The Auction Collective present a virtual 360° exhibition, followed by a live-stream fundraising auction to raise funds for leading homelessness charity: Centrepoint.

Yinka Shonibare CBE has been awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award 2020 by the Government Art Collection (GAC). The new work was unveiled at the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office on Tuesday 6 October 2020 by Caroline Dinenage MP, Minister of State (Minister for Digital and Culture) and Penny Johnson CBE, Director of the GAC.

For the first time in its history, the Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition falls in winter this year. Coordinated by artistic duo Jane and Louise Wilson RA. (This link opens in a new tab)., the exhibition features myriad household names including Tracey Emin, Denzil Forrester, Rebecca Horn, Anselm Kiefer, Julian Schnabel, Yinka Shonibare CBE, Gillian Wearing and Ai Weiwei as well as many emerging artists. 

M WOODS presents two film works by British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE in the museum's Temple Galleries in Beijing, China. Shonibare's films 'Odile and Odette' and 'Addio del Passato' are shown within specially reconstructed Ming dynasty temples. 

'Unstructured Icons - Aristocrat I' by Yinka Shonibare CBE is one of several works donated to a campaign auction held by Sotheby’s to support those facing food poverty as a result of the COVID-19 crisis (Lots 880-887). 

South London Gallery hosted an online panel discussion on Thursday 16 July examining the relationships between public space, British history and Black Lives Matter, with British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE, art historian...

'Inspiration – Iconic Works' is a group exhibition organised by Nationalmuseum and Ateneum Art Museum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. The show explores why particular works have emerged as iconic examples of European...

For 'End of Empire' Yinka Shonibare CBE explored how the new alliances forged in the First World War changed British society forever and continue to affect us today. The work was co-commissioned by 14-18 NOW and Turner Contemporary.