Yinka Shonibare CBE news

A major retrospective of Yinka Shonibare CBE's practice will be held at Museum of Salzburg, Austria in March 2021, coinciding with the centennial of the Salzburg Festival. Curated by Thorsten Sadowsky and...

'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....

M WOODS presents two film works by British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE in the museum's Temple Galleries in Beijing, China. 'Radical Hybridity' marks the first in a new series of projects...

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...

'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...

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...

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 the ‘Wind Sculptures (SG)’ series,...

'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...

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. 

Join @artxlagos and @gasfoundation via Instagram Live for a conversation between British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (@shonibarestudio) and Tayo Ogunbiyi, Artistic Director, ART X Lagos. Shonibare will be discussing the growing cultural...

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 Lisa Brice, 'Untitled', 2019, X Museum, Beijing, China Yinka Shonibare CBE, 'Adam and Eve', 2013, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa Deborah...

'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...