Yinka Shonibare CBE news

The British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE (1962 London, UK) makes work that scrutinizes the legacy of Western colonialism and its lingering traces. His theatrical and subversive installations featuring headless figures in historical...

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE’s new work 'Wind Sculpture (SG) V' is installed in one of The Greenway Public Park's contemplative gardens in Boston, Massachusetts. In the ‘Wind Sculptures (SG)’ series, the...

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...

When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art is a group exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA. The exhibition borrows its title from a poem by Warsan Shire,...

‘Criminal Ornamentation' opens at its first destination, Attenborough Arts Centre, this September. Provocatively referring to early twentieth-century architect Adolf Loos' influential anti-decoration essay ‘Ornament and Crime', Shonibare takes the Arts Council Collection...

The Wellcome Collection will launch a new permanent exhibit, Being Human, this September. The new presentation will explore ideas of trust, identity and health in a changing world. Divided into four sections...

The touring group exhibition 'Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things' brings together over 50 of the Kenyan-born British potter's vessels alongside a selection of historic and contemporary objects. Curated by Odundo herself,...

The British Museum has acquired ‘Cowboy Angels' by British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE. The works are 'a reflection on the Zeitgeist at a time of xenophobia, racism and the election of Donald...

The touring group exhibition 'Fly Me To The Moon: The Lunar Landing: 50 Years Later' is on display from 20 July at its final exhibition, at Museum der Moderne Salzburg. In celebration...

The touring exhibition Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare CBE Curates the Arts Council Collection opens at its final destination, Southampton City Art Gallery. Selecting works from the Arts Council Collection as a starting...