Yinka Shonibare (b. 1962)
Born London, England
Lives and works in London, England
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Yinka Shonibare CBE: Flower Power, Fukuoka Art Museum,
Fukuoka, Japan
A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE, Driehaus Museum,
Chicago, USA
Trade Winds: Yinka Shonibare CBE, Norval Foundation,
Cape Town, South Africa
Creatures of the Mappa Mundi, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, UK
2018 The American Library, Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson
College, North Carolina, USA
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK
End of Empire, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
Ruins Decorated, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Busan Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Howick Place, London, UK
2017 Prejudice at Home; a Parlour, a Library and a Room, James Cohan
Gallery, New York, USA
Paradise Beyond, Gemeentmuseum Helmond, Netherlands
2016 RA Family Album, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
…and the wall fell away, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London,
England
Recreating The Pastoral, Visual Carlow, Carlow, Ireland
End of Empire, 14-18 Now, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Childhood Memories, Pearl Lam Galleries, Singapore
Rotunda Projects: Yinka Shonibare MBE, Memphis Brooks Museum
of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Paradise Beyond, Gemeentemusem, Helmond, Netherlands
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, USA
2015 William Morris Family Album, The William Morris Gallery,
London, England
High Tea, Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong, China
Rage of the Ballet Gods, James Cohen Gallery, New York, USA
Colonial Arrangements, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, USA
Pieces de Resistance, DHC ART, Montreal, Canada
Yinka Shonibare, Daegu Art Museum, South Korea
2014 Egg Fight, Fondation Blachère, France (catalogue)
Cannonball Paradise, Herbert Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster,
Germany
The British Library, HOUSE and Brighton Festival co-commission,
The Old Reference Library, Brighton Museum, England
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders, The Barnes Foundation,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Yinka Shonibare, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Making Eden, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
MCA Chicago Plaza Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Illinois, USA
Party Time: Re-imagine America, The Newark Museum, Newark,
New Jersey, USA
2013 Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Dreaming Rich, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong
Kong, Shanghai
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, England
Selected Works, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland; travelling to
Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland
FABRIC-ATION, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
FABRIC-ATION, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
FOCUS: Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
POP!, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Dreaming Rich, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China
2012 Imagined as the Truth, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, USA
Invasion, Escape: Aliens do it right!, Anna Schwartz Gallery,
Sydney, Australia
Addio del Passato, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2011 El Futuro del Pasado, Alcalá 31 Centros de Arte, Madrid, Spain, curated
by Octavio Zaya; touring to Centro de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria, Spain
2010 Human Culture: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Sculpture, Photography and Film, Western
Michigan University, Michigan, USA
Looking Up, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany
Before and After Modernism: Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, Yinka
Shonibare, MBE, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art &
Design, London, England
2009 Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play, Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, NY, USA; Travelling to the St Louis Art Museum, USA
Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London,
England
Party Time: Re-Imagine America - A Centennial Commission by Yinka
Shonibare MBE, Newark Museum, New York, USA
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland
A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child & other Astonishing
Works, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA
A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child, Miami Art Museum,
Miami, USA Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA),
Sydney, Australia; touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA and
National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington
D.C, USA
2008 Odile and Odette, Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Gallery,
Atlanta, USA
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney,
Australia; touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA and the
Smithsonian, Washington D.C., USA Prospero’s Monsters, James Cohan
Gallery, New York, USA
2007 Scratch the Surface, National Gallery, London, England
Jardin d’Amour, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
White Flag at Half Mast, commission for the Jubilee Flagpole, Hayward
Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, England
Summer Show, New York Gallery, New York, USA
2006 Yinka Shonibare Installation, Speed Museum, Kentucky, USA
Flower Time, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2005 Mobility, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper
Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York,
USA
Collaborative film/dance project with the Royal Opera House and the
Africa Centre, London, England
2004 Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
Yinka Shonibare, Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum,
Rotterdam, Netherlands; touring to Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
Vasa, Commission for the opening of Moderna Museet, Stockholm,
Sweden
Yinka Shonibare, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
2003 Play with me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2002 Christmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London, England
Britannia project, Tate Britain, London, England
Be-muse, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy (catalogue) The Andy
Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (brochure) Camouflage, Johannesburg,
South Africa
Double Dress, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; toured to KIASMA,
Helsinki, Finland; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, USA and Padiglione
d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2001 Stephen Friedman Gallery and 2nd Floor, 12 Dolland Street, London,
England
2000 Effective, defective, creative, permanent video installation, Wellcome
Wing, Science Museum, London, England
Camden Arts Centre, London, England
Affectionate Men, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Diary of a Victorian Dandy Project, INIVA; toured to Castle Museum;
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England
1999 Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; toured to Henie Onstad Art
Centre, Norway; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art,
Sunderland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno,
Wales (catalogue)
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA
1988 Diary of a Victorian Dandy, site-specific project on the London
Underground, commissioned and produced by INIVA, London, England
Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids, Tablet, the Tabernacle,
London; toured to Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, England
1997 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Present Tense, contemporary project series, Art Gallery of Ontario,
Toronto, Canada
1995 Sun, Sea and Sand, BAC Gallery, London, England
1994 Double Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London, England
1989 Byam Shaw Gallery, London, England Bedford Hill Gallery, London,
England
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Criminal Ornamentation, Curated by Yinka Shonibare, Royal Albert
Memorial Museum, Exeter, Hayward Touring, UK
2018 Musée des Civilisations, Dakar, Senegal
Senses of Time: Video and Film-based Works of Africa, Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
Soft Power, Transpaleter Art Centre, Bourges, France
Bloot, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, Germany
Criminal Ornamentation, Curated by Yinka Shonibare, Attenborough Arts
Centre, Hayward Touring, Leicester, UK
The Most Real Thing: Contemporary Textiles and Sculpture, New Art
Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK
An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, Cleveland Triennial for
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
The Great Spectacle, RA Summer Exhibition Retrospective, Royal
Academy of Arts, London, UK
Talisman in the Age of Difference, Curated by Yinka Shonibare, Stephen
Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Powerful Tides, The Dockyard, Chatham, UK
Eco e Narciso, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present,
Musée des Beaux- Arts de Montreal, Canada
Time and Tide. The Power of the Sea, Chatham Dockyard, London, UK
Pulling at Threads, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, Met Breur, New York, USA
(catalogue)
2017 From Life, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
We Are Not Alone, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Cure 3 Charity Exhibition, Bonhams Auction House, London
Colonial Stories, GL Holtegaard, Denmark
Other Side: Art, Object, Self, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum,
Skidmore College, USA
Acts of Transgression, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong
Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco,
USA Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London,
England
AFRICA. Racontare un mondo, PAC, Milan, Italy
Un Bal Masque / A Masked Ball, Le Chateau de Nyon, Switzerland
Enlightened Princesses; Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the
Shaping of The Modern World, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven,
Connecticut, USA; Kensington Palace, London, England (catalogue)
Les Eclaireurs (The Enlighteners), Foundation Blachere aux Palais des
Papes, Avignon, France
Diaspora Pavilion, Palazzo Pisani, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Tous de Sang Meles, MAC/VAL, Vitry sur Seine, Paris, France Leisure Land
Golf, York Art Gallery, York, England Quotidian, Pearl Lam Gallery,
Shanghai, China
2016 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
BODY/PLAY/POLITICS, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
(catalogue)
Found, The Foundling Museum, London, England
Making and Unmaking, Curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre,
London, England
Animality curated by Jens Hoffman, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
(catalogue)
Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa, Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA
720, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Gardens by the Bay,
Singapore
Across Art and Fashion, Ferragamo Museum Florence, Italy
New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan,
Uzbekistan
2015 Portraits and Other Likeness from SFMOMA, Museum of the African
Diaspora, San Francisco, USA
A Brief History of the Future, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium, Brussels
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London,
England
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, England
Arts + Foods. Rituals since 1851, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano,
Milan, Italy
Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Kent, England
Chercher le Garcon, MAC/VAL, Paris, France
Unravelling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories, Textile museum, The George
Washington University Museum, Washington DC, USA
The House for the Flying Wheel, Morley Gallery, London, England
In Search of Meaning; the Human Figure in Global Perspective,
Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands
Heartbreak Hotel, presented by the Vanhaertens Collection,
Venice Biennale, Italy
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Museu Afro Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness, Harvey B. Gantt Center for
African American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s,
the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Africans Africa: Contemporary African Art, Museu Afro, Brazil
The Worlds Turned Upside Down, BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium
Life is this MUSAC Off, DA2, Salamanca, Spain
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim
Bilbao, Spain
The Inverted Worlds, BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium
2014 The Global Africa Project - Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul,
South Korea
Post Pop: East Meets West at Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Temporary Contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
It’s All a Masquerade! – Carnival, Masquerade and other Forms of
Authorised Anarchy, Kunsthalle Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
The House of The Flying Wheel, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK:
travelled to Morley Gallery, England
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman, Gallery,
London, England
Progress, The Foundling Museum, London, England
Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, The Museum of
Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Ship to Shore, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England
The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Interchange Junctions, 5 Howick Place, London, England
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary
African Artists, curated by Simon Njami, Frankfurt MMK,
Frankfurt, Germany; travels to Smithsonian National Museum of African
Art, Washington, USA; Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Correo Venezia,
Venice; Hayward Gallery, London, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Collection IX. Arco Collection, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo,
CA2M, Madrid, Spain
Aliens in parliament, Kiel Parliament, Kiel Country House, Kiel, Germany
Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present,
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
2013 Education, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland
Block Party: Contemporary Craft Inspired by the Art of the Tailor, AUB,
Bournemouth, England
Living Archive, Paco Das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Bienniale Cuvee, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
Out of Fashion, gl Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark; travelling to
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark
Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting: 15th Anniversary Collection, MOCA,
North Miami, USA
Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, Contemporary Art
Centre, Louisiana, USA
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa,
Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art,
Washington DC, USA
Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Sheldon
Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Le Pont, Musée d'Art Contemporain, project for Marseille-Provence 2013
European Capital of Culture, France
Pedro Lasch, Susan Harbage Page and Yinka Shonibare, Nasher,
Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House,
London, England
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Victoriana: The Art of Revival, Guildhall Art Gallery,
London, England
Kunst & Textile, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Miniartextil, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
2012 The Progress of Love, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria;
touring to The Menil Collection, Texas, USA; The Pulitzer Foundation
for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, Deutsches
Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Happening to Be, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London,
England
The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, German Historical
Museum, Berlin, Germany
Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, and Discovery, Princeton University Art
Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, England
Trade Routes Over Time, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa
Déjà-vu? Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube
(Déjà-vu? The Art of Reproduction from Dürer to YouTube), Staatliche
Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
artbindLuxe: Mode D’Emploi, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Rokoko Mania: Contemporary art and design in dialogue with
crafts from the 1700’s, Designmuseum, København, Denmark
Cotton: Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
The Crisis Commission, Somerset House, London, England
Six Yards, Guaranteed Real Dutch Wax Exhibition, Museum of
Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands
Block Party, Smiths Row, London; touring to National Craft Gallery,
Kilkenny, Ireland; New Walk Museum & Gallery, Leicester, England
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Centre for the
Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennesse, USA; touring to Winnipeg Art Gallery,
Manitoba, Canada; and to the Glenbow Art Museum, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
Histories of the Colonial screening event for Colonial Spectres: A moving
Picture Blues, film series curated by Christian Kravagna, Museum
Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
(Film: Addio del Passato)
African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, Smithsonian, National Museum of African
Art, Washington DC, USA
2011 Travelling Light, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
I Know Something About Love, Parasol Unit, London, England
Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker
Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence,
Rhode Island, USA
Rewind-Play-Forward, Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania Environment
and Object, Tang Art Museum, New York, USA Anderson Gallery, Virginia
Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA Middlebury College Museum
of Art, Vermont, USA
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los
Angeles, California, USA
The African Continuum, the United Nations, New York, USA
Sprit and Space: Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fundación
Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
African Interweave: Textile Diasporas, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville,
Florida, USA
The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection, Cincinnati Art
Museum, USA
2010 Lust and Vice. The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman,
Kustmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy,
London, England
Raw, 242nd Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
Lust and Vice: The 7 Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Art Museum
of Bern, Switzerland
Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane,
Australia
The House of Fairy Tales, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England
Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, California
Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response, Meadows Museum, Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
Eye of the Pacific Rim, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan
City, Korea
Foundation of Art: Sculpture and its Base since Rodin, ARP Museum,
Bonn, Germany
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
Who Knows Tomorrow, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany
Until Now: Collecting the Contemporary (1960-2010), Minneapolis
Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Size DOES Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Pattern I.D., Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA
Nothing is Forever, South London Gallery, London, England
Performance/Art, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, USA
DaDaFest International, Liverpool, England
2009 British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1965-2009, Neuberger
Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
A Rebelión dos Xeneros, Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain
Third Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, The garage Center for
Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Persona, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
(April – January 2010)
Perhaps Truth is a Woman, Museum of European Garden History,
Düsseldorf, Germany
Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum,
New Jersey, USA
Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton,
New Jersey, USA
Bodies in Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach,
Florida, USA
Pictures in Series, Fischer Landau Center for Art, Long Island City,
New York, USA
2008 Nos, Museu de republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, The Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, New York, USA
Space Now!, The Triangle Gallery at Space Studios, London, England
Angaza Afrika, The October Gallery, London, England
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, USA
Body Space, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, England
2007 Crossing the Water, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford; travelling to City
Gallery, Leicester, England
Stardust or the last border, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne
(MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Role Exchange, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art, Kansas City, USA
Check-List Luanda Pop, African Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy
Uncomfortable Truths – the shadow of slave trading on contemporary
art and design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; touring to Salford
Museum and Art Gallery, Salford; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England
Tomorrow Now: When Design Meets Science Fiction, MUDAM,
Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
War and Discontent, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Scratch the Surface, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
Fashion Accidentally, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Asia
2006 Primitivism Revisited, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan,
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA
Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
William Hogarth, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France; travelled to Tate
Britain, London, England; Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
Transvideo, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison,
Wisconsin, USA
MASCARADA / MASQUERADE, DA2 - Domus Artium 2002,
Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
DRESSCODE, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland
Space is the Place, Independent Curators International, New York, USA
Los Usos de la Pintura II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico
(curated by Julieta González)
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, University Art Museum,
UC Santa Barbara, California, USA
Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada
Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery
of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
A Historic Occasion, Artists Making History, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts
East Wing Collection No. 7 Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute, Somerset
House, London, England
Around The World In Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts and
South London Gallery, London, England
Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Fisher Landau Center for Art,
Long Island City, New York, USA
Artificial Afrika, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA (curated by Vernon
Reid and C. Daniel Dawson)
2005 Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen
Harris Norton and Peter Norton Contemporary Art Collections, Museum
of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA
Woman Women, Ville de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland; toured to the
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; Palais des Beaux Arts/Entrepõt Royal
Tour & Taxis (curated by Adelina von Furstenberg)
Take Two. Worlds and Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Acting Out: The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography,
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA; toured to the
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of
New York, Purchase, NY, USA (organized by UIMA curator Kathleen A.
Edwards, (catalogue)
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery,
London, England
Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast,
Düsseldorf, Germany; toured to Hayward Gallery, London;
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
African Voices, New Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, Sweden
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2004 African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, PA, USA
Continental Drift: Installations by Ilya Kabakov, Joan Jonas, Juan Muños,
Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden The Fabric Workshop
and Museum, New York, USA Flexible 4: Identities, Landes Museen,
Linz, Austria
Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Yerba
Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA (catalogue)
2003 Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora,
The Museum for African Art, New York, USA (catalogue)
Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,
New Museum, New York, USA (catalogue)
Flexible 4: Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SF MOMA,
San Francisco, USA (doublures), vêtements de l'art contemporain,
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec,
Canada (catalogue)
Independence, South London Gallery, London, England
The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland
Somewhere better than this Place, The Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2002 Extension, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden
Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
(catalogue)
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (catalogue)
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, USA
2001 Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art,
49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy
Unpacking Europe, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam,
Netherlands; toured (catalogue)
The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; toured (catalogue)
Art through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter,
Oslo, Norway
Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum,
London, England
Secret Victorians, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
2000 Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture,
MCA Chicago, USA
Partage d’exotismes, 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Other Modernities, Camberwell College of Arts, London, England
Laboratory: Continental Shift-Artists from the African continent in Europe,
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London, England
South Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
1999 From where–To here, Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden
Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland
Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool,
England
Mirror’s Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver
Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway,
Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers’ Gallery,
London, England
In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham, England
Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough
Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
1998 Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México,
México D.F.
Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter;
toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Ethno-antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada
Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY
Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain
Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora,
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Global Vision; New Art from the ‘90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
1997 Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal
Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin,
Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale,
South Africa
Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain,
1966- 1996, Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute,
New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum
of the Arts, New York, NY, USA Pictura Britannica, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of
South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, England
1996 Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?, London Printworks Trust, England
Imagined Communities, National Touring Exhibition, Oldham Art
Gallery; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton; Colchester
Minories; Royal Festival Hall, London and Glasgow Gallery of
Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Discreet Charm, Visionfest, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, England
Inklusion: Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
Jurassic Technology, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
Painting, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Out of Order, Independent Art School, London; Cornerhouse,
Manchester, England
1995 The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex,
Barbican Centre, London, England
Seeing and Believing, The Economist Building, London, England
Original, Gasworks, London, England
1994 2 out of 4 dimensions, Centre 181 Gallery, London, England
Where are they now...?, Byam Shaw Gallery, London, England
Seen/unseen, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England
TENQ, group exhibition in Senegal, West Africa
1993 Space Studios Open Exhibition, London, England
1992 Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1991 Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, MN;
Madison Art Centre, Wisconsin, WI; Memorial Art Museum, Ohio, OH
Goldsmiths College, London, England
1989 Black Art New Directions, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery,
Stoke-on Trent Byam Shaw Final year show, London, England
1988 Byam Shaw Concourse Gallery, London, England
Awards and Residencies
2019 Awarded the CBE
2016 African Arts Award, National Museum of African Art Smithsonian
Institution, New York City, USA
The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Arts award, New York, USA
2013 Royal Academician, The Royal Academy, London, England
2012 Fellow of University of the Arts, London, England
2010 The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award
Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art London, England
2008 Fourth Plinth Award Nominee, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery,
London, England
2007 Honorary Doctorate Degree, Huron University, London, England
2005 Awarded the MBE
2004 IASPIS, International Artists' Studio Program in Stockholm, Sweden
2003 Fellow of Goldsmiths College, London, England
2001 Residency, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
2000 Residency, MCA DePaul University, Chicago, USA
1999 Shortlisted Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize
1998 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists
Royal Society of Arts, Art for Architecture Award
1992 Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
London Arts Board Artist's Grant
Public Collections (selected)
Arts Council Collection, London, England
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C, USA
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Rome, Italy
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
Norton Museum of Art, Florida USA
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Stitchting de Onvoltooide, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tate Collection, London, England
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Wroclaw Museum of Art, Poland
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa