Yinka Shonibare CBE news

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. 

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

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA features in Dulwich Picture Gallery's Sculpture Garden. 

We are delighted to invite you to join Stephen Friedman and owner of Modernity Andrew Duncanson for an online conversation about their collaboration, ‘Stephen Friedman Gallery at The London House of Modernity'. 

David Shrigley joins other leading artists calling on the nation to participate in 'The Great Big Art Exhibition'. Inspired by the displays of creativity with which the British public have celebrated the NHS and key workers during recent lockdowns, the Exhibition invites you to paint, draw, sculpt or build your own artwork for display in your window or garden. Museums will be selecting influential works from their collections to spark ideas and every two weeks a different artist will choose a new subject for the public to respond to.

Yinka Shonibare CBE’s ‘The Bird Catcher’s Dilemma’ is inspired by the story of Papageno, the bird catcher, in Mozart’s opera 'The Magic Flute'. This sculpture was commissioned for Salzburg Museum to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Salzburg Festival of music and drama as part of the group exhibition 'Great World Theatre - 100 Years of the Salzburg Festival'.

Now available to watch online, British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE participated in an online conversation with Tim Marlow OBE, Director of the Design Museum in London. The talk is the first in a series of three webinars, Sotheby's' '500 Years of Art: Summer Talks', which examine how different genres and periods of art history have inspired the artists of our time.

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE’s new work 'Wind Sculpture (SG) V' has been installed in a contemplative garden of The Greenway Public Park in Boston, Massachusetts.

In response to the current crisis, Barts Health NHS Trust is upgrading existing Staff Rooms and creating new areas in which clinical staff can find rest and respite. Aligning with these developments, charitably funded initiative #100NHSRooms was launched to support the wellbeing of both patients and hospital employees by bringing new artworks to 100 rooms across Barts Health, including St Bartholomew’s, Royal London Hospital, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham Hospital. 

@artxlagos and @gasfoundation hosted a talk  on 21 May 2020 via Instagram Live between British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (@shonibarestudio) and Tayo Ogunbiyi, Artistic Director, ART X Lagos. 

CAS Rapid Response Fund is a crowdfunding campaign by Contemporary Art Society in partnership with Frieze Art Fair. The Fund aims to support artists and museums across the UK, with funds raised...

More than 50 artists have each designed a poster for sale in aid of the Between Bridges project, 2020Solidarity. This fundraising campaign targets cultural and music venues, community projects, independent spaces and...

Deborah Roberts, 'We are Soldiers', 2019, MFA Boston, Massachusetts, USA Yinka Shonibare CBE, 'Adam and Eve', 2013, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa Deborah Roberts, 'Ulysses', 2019, ICA Boston, Massachusetts, USA Yinka...

'Sanctuary' features recently acquired works that explore the concepts of safety and refuge as they relate to the African American experience. Whether real, staged, or imagined, the worlds depicted in these photographs...

'Radical Revisionists' is a group exhibition at Moody Center for the Arts, Texas that addresses the erasure of marginalized histories and investigates the ways in which artists reinterpret familiar themes through contemporary,...

The Asian Art Institutum, together with The Arts House and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, are pleased to present 'Justice for All', an immersive, site-specific installation by acclaimed British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE,...

Yinka Shonibare CBE's monumental work 'Wind Sculpture (SG) IV' is on display near Spelman Halls at Princeton University through May 2020. Made from industrial materials usually used in the construction of buildings,...

'Counter Acts' is a group exhibition at University of the Arts, London that explores the remarkable relationship between University and the prestigious Turner Prize. Artists featured in the exhibition include previous winners...

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE has announced his ambitious new Artist Residency project, Guest Artists Space (G.A.S.) Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria. The Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to facilitating international artistic...

'Utopian Imagination' is a group exhibition at Ford Foundation for Center for Social Justice, New York curated by Jaishiri Abichandani. The exhibition explores the challenge of creating Utopian visions in the present...