Born: 1962 in London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
1989–1991
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1984-1989
Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
Memberships
2019
Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), London, UK
2013
Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2012
Fellow of University of Arts, London, UK
2010
Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, UK
2005
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), London, UK
2003
Fellow of Goldsmiths College, London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
* denotes an accompanying publication
2025
Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities], Foundation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar*
2024
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States, Serpentine South, London, UK*
2023
Boomerang: Returning to African Abstraction, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Yinka Shonibare CBE RA: Free The Wind, The Spirit, and The Sun, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Ritual Ecstasy of the Modern, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK2022
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Restitution of the Mind and Soul, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Planets in My Head, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
2021
African Spirits of Modernism, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria*2020
Earth Kids, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Radical Hybridity, M Woods, Beijing, China
Justice for All, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Justice for All, The Arts House, Singapore
2019
Cowboy Angels, British Museum, London, UK
Flower Power, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan*
A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare CBE, Driehaus Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA*
Trade Winds: Yinka Shonibare CBE, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Guns Drawn, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
Creatures of the Mappa Mundi, Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, UK
2018
The American Library, Van Every/Smith Galleries, 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
2017
Party-Time: Re-imagine America, The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Prejudice at Home: A Parlour, a Library and a Room, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2016
…And the Wall Fell Away, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Paradise Beyond, Gemeentemusem Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Rotunda Projects, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
End of Empire, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Recreating the Pastoral, VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland
Childhood Memories, Pearl Lam Gallery, Singapore, China
2015
Wilderness in the Garden, Daegu Art Museum, South Korea*
Colonial Arrangements, Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York, New York, USA
Rage of the Ballet Gods, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
The William Morris Family Album, William Morris Gallery, London, UK
Pieces de Resistance, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2014
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Ikon Icons 1990s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
MCA Chicago Plaza Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The British Library, HOUSE Biennial and Brighton Festival, The Old Reference Library, Brighton Museum, Brighton, UK
Egg Fight, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Cannonball Paradise, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
Yinka Shonibare, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Making Eden, Blain|Southern Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA*
Yinka Shonibare: Selected Works, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw, Poland*
2013
Yinka Shonibare: Selected Works, Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland*
Dreaming Rich, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong and Shanghai, China
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, UK
POP!, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
FABRIC-ATION, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK; tours to Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark*
FOCUS: Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Dallas, Texas, USA
2012
Imagined as the Truth, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, California, USA
Invasion, Escape: Aliens do it right!, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Addio del Passato, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2011
The Future is the Past, Alcalá 31 Centros de Arte, Madrid, Spain; tours to Centro de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Grand Canary Islands, Spain
2009
Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Party Time: Re-Imagine America - A Centennial Commission by Yinka Shonibare MBE, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA; tours to the St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA; tours to National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C, USA*
A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child & Other Astonishing Works, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
2010
Looking Up, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco*
Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Sculpture, Photography and Film, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany
Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA
2008
A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child & Other Astonishing Works, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia*
Prospero’s Monsters, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Odile and Odette, Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA*
2007
Scratch the Surface, National Gallery, London, UK
Garden of Love, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France*
Summer Show, New York Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2006
Flower Time, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Yinka Shonibare MBE, Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
2005
Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper-Hewitt, National
Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institute, New York, New York, USA
Mobility, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2004
Yinka Shonibare, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; tours to Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria*
Vasa, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Play with me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Double Dress, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland; tours to Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy*
2002
Britannia Project, Tate Britain, London, UK
Double Dress, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel*
Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, New York, USA *
2001
Christmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London, UK
Be-muse, Museo Hendrik Christian Anderson, Rome, Italy*
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA*
Camouflage, Centre of Contemporary Art of Southern Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa*
Stephen Friedman Gallery and 2nd Floor, London, UK
2000
Yinka Shonibare, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Affectionate Men, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
1999
Brent Sikkema, New York, USA
Diary of a Victorian Dandy Project, Castle Museum Nottingham, UK; tours to Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK and Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; tours to Henie Onstad Art Centre, Sandvika, Norway; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK and Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, UK*
1998
Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids, The Tablet Gallery at Tabernacle, London, UK; tours to Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
1997
Present Tense: Contemporary Project Series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada*
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
1995
Sun, Sea and Sand, BAC Gallery, London, UK
1994
Double Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London, UK
1989
Bedford Hill Gallery, London, UK
1984
Byam Shaw Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
* denotes an accompanying publication
2025
I Am Me, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford
Cosmos, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands*
Changes, Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Poland
2024
Nigeria Imaginary, La Biennale di Venezia, Nigerian Pavilion, Venice, Italy*
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK*
Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*Narrative Obsession in the Post-Colonial Psyche, The 8th Floor, New York
To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, Florida
Contemporary Collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, British Museum, London
True Colours, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
Inaugural Exhibition, The Campus, New York
Irapuru, Goodman Gallery, London
How Did You Come into the World?, Hirosaki Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Get in the Game, Perez Art Museum, Miami
The True Size of Africa, UNESCO World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte, Germany
Inner Spirits and Outer Landscapes, Hangar - Centro de Investigação Artística, Lisbon, Portugal
Earthbound, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
Radical Textiles, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Imagining Black Diasporas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
2023
In Brilliant Light, Wereld Museum, Leiden, The Netherlands
NGV Triennial, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
To Weave the Sky: Textile Abstractions from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, Florida, USA
PERFORMING HISTORY. Postcolonial Memory and Identity in Contemporary Art, Gottorf Castle, Schleswig, Germany
CALLART3: The Virtual Window, Muzeum Współczesne, Wrocław, Poland
Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, UK
The Magic of the Silver Swan, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham, UKThreads, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes, South London Gallery, London, UK
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale, Copenhagen, Denmark
The 255th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
Tales for a Stranger, The Warehouse by MARUANI MERCIER, Brussels, Belgium
To Be Free, Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, UK
Gemma De Angelis Testa Donation Exhibition, Ca’ Pesaro- International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
Trace — Formations of Likeness. Photography and Video from The Walther Collection, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany*
The Art of Fabric: Textile as Artistic Material, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, Germany
Crosscurrents: Intercultural Conversations in Art, MW Gallery, Flint, Michigan, USA
Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present, Sharjah, UAE
TAGUKORE: Dunno A Thing About Art (But I Like It) from the Taguchi Art Collection, Kadokawa Culture Museum, Saitama, Japan
Between Before and After, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
2022
The Fest: Between Representation and Revolt, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Constellations: Global Reflections, Kura Kura, Bali, Indonesia
A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science Fiction, Centre Pompidou, Metz, France*
Hibiscus Rising: Creating a Memorial for David Oluwale with Yinka Shonibare CBE, The Tetley, Leeds, UK
Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781 - 2022, RWA, Bristol, UK
The 254th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, V&A, London, UK*
The Future is Blinking: Early Studio Photography from West and Central Africa, Museum Rietberg, Zurich, Switzerland
Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of Youth, Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, UK
Garmenting: Costume as Contemporary Art Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, USA
Elective Affinities, Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden
Responsibility to Reveal: 30 Years of The Knight Purchase Award for Photographic Media, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA
Crazy: Madness in Contemporary Art, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
And I Must Scream, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2021
Re-création, Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Dubai Expo, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The 253rd Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
RELATIONS: Diaspora and Painting, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada*
Interior Infinite, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 90s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK*
London Calling: British Contemporary Art from David Hockney to Idris Khan, Bacaja Foundation, Valencia, Spain
UnNatural History, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK
Hidden in Plain Sight, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, USA
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA*
Vision & Reality: 100 Years of Contemporary Art, Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
2020
Witness: Afro Perspectives from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami Florida, USA*
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
The 252nd Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
Great World Theatre - 100 Years of the Salzburg Festival, Salzburg Museum, Salzburg, Austria*
Alien vs. Citizen, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Relations: Diaspora and Paintings, Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA*
Inspiration-Iconic Works, Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden; tours to Konstmuseet Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland*
New Editions, Print Project Space, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
Radical Revisionists: Contemporary African Artists Confronting Past and Present, Moody Center for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
2019
James Cohan: Twenty Years, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA*
I've Grown Roses in this Garden of Mine, Goodman Gallery, London, UK
Utopian Imagination, Ford Foundation Gallery Center for Social Justice, New York, New York, USA
Being Human, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
Comeback: Art-Historical Renaissances, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany*
Fly Me to The Moon: The Lunar Landing, 50 Years Later, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria*
Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, UK
A Cool Breeze, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic*
Mirror: The Person in Reflection, Museum Rietberg Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Bel Canto: Contemporary Artist Explore Opera, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Lie of the Land, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK*
Encore: Reenactment in Contemporary Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Magdalene Odundo: The Journey of Things, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK*
Borders, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2018
The Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal
Soft Power, Transpalette Centre d'art contemporain, Bourges, France
Bloot, Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen, Netherlands
The Most Real Thing: Contemporary Textiles and Sculpture, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK
Beyond Borders: Global Africa, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, Front International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA*
Royal Academicians in Focus, Print Project Space, Christea Roberts Gallery, London, UK
The Great Spectacle: 250 Years of the Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body, Met Breuer, New York, New York, USA*
Eco and Narcissus, Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica – Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
From Africa to the Americas: Face-to-face Picasso, Past and Present, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Pulling at Threads, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
Powerful Tides: 400 Year of Chatham and the Sea, The Historic Dockyard, Chatham, UK
Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
2017
From Life, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
We Are Not Alone, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Colonial Stories: Power and People, Gammel Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark
Other Side: Art, Object, Self, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Acts of Transgression, Pearl Lam Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
The 249th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
Leisure Land Golf, York Art Gallery, York, UK
A Masked Ball, XVIII Siècel & Art Contemporain, Le Chateau de Nyon, Switzerland*
Sculptors of Africa, Fondation Blachère aux Palais des Papes, Avignon, France
Diaspora Pavilion, Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Of Mixed Blood, MAC VAL - Musée d'Art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Virty-sur-Seine, France
Public View, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
Enlightened Princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; tours to Kensington Palace, London, UK*
Quotidian, Pearl Lam Gallery, Shanghai, China
2016
720, Singapore International Festival of Arts, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK
New Past: Contemporary Art from Britain, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
BODY/PLAY/POLITICS, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Africa Telling the World, PAC Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Making and Unmaking: An Exhibition Curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK*
The 248th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
Found, The Foundling Museum, London, UK
Across Art and Fashion, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence, Italy*
Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., USA
2015
Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
This is Life: Narratives of Progress, Liberty and Self-Realisation in Capitalism, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
The Worlds Turned Upside Down, BPS22 Musee d'art de la Province de Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium
A Brief History of the Future, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium*
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
The 247th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
10th Anniversary Exhibition, Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Portraits and Other Likeness from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California, USA
Heartbreak Hotel: Vanhaertens Collection, Zuecca Project Space, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Arts + Foods. Rituals since 1851, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy*
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, National Museum of African Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., USA*
Unravelling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories, Textile Museum, The George Washington University Museum, Washington D.C., USA*
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany*
Looking for the Boy, MAC VAL - Musée d'Art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Virty-sur-Seine, France
Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
The House for the Flying Wheel, Morley Gallery, London, UK
In Search of Meaning; the Human Figure in Global Perspective, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands*
2014
Africa Now-Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
It’s All a Masquerade! – Carnival, Masquerade and other Forms of Authorised Anarchy, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany*
Collection IX: Arco Collection, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
Aliens in Parliament, Landehaus Kiel, Kiel Parliament, Kiel, Germany
Temporary Contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida, USA
The 246th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK*
Interchange Junctions, 5 Howick Place, London, UK
Progress, The Foundling Museum, London, UK
The House of The Flying Wheel, Backlit Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, Fowler Museum at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA*
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany; tours to Savannah College of Art and Design’s Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA *
Art & Textile: Fabric in the Modern Age from Klimt to the Present Day, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany*
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman, Gallery, London, UK
Ship to Shore: Art and the Lure of the Sea, John Hansard Gallery, SeaCity Museum, Southampton, UK*
Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
2013
The Adventures of Education: Duty, Lust and Ideas Over Time, Vögele Kultur Zentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland*
Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Art & Textile: Fabric in the Modern Age from Klimt to the Present Day, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany*
Eros Miniartextil, 23rd Edition of international Contemporary Textiles Exhibitioin, Villa Olmo, Como, Italy
Pedro Lasch, Susan Harbage Page and Yinka Shonibare, Nasher, Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Victoriana: The Art of Revival, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK*
Bienniale Cuvee 13, OK Offenes Kulturhaus Öberösterreich, Linz, Austria*
Living Archive, Paco Das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
The Bridge, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA; tours to Arkansas Arts Centre, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., USA*
Out of Fashion, Gammel Holtegaard, Holte, Denmark; tours to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting, Anniversary Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy; tours to Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia and Muzeum Sztuki Wspólczesnej w Krakowie, Krakow, Poland*
Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, Contemporary Art Centre, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Block Party: Contemporary Craft Inspired by the Art of the Tailor, Arts Depot, London, UK; tours to Orleans House, Twickenham, UK and The Gallery, Arts University of Bournemouth, Bournemouth, UK
2012
The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany*
The Progress of Love, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria; tours to The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA and The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA*
African Cosmos: Stellar Arts, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., USA
Happening to Be, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, and Discovery, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; tours to Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Rococo Mania: Contemporary Art and Design in Dialogue with Crafts from the 1700’s, Designmuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Déjà-vu? The Art of Reproduction from Dürer to YouTube, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany*
Trade Routes Over Time, Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
The Crisis Commission, Somerset House, London, UK
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Centre for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; tours to Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Glenbow Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada*
Cotton: Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK
Six Yards, Guaranteed Real Dutch Wax Exhibition, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands
Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA*
Block Party: Contemporary Craft Inspired by the Tailor, Smiths Row, Burry St. Edmunds, UK; tours to New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, UK and Sheffield Institute of Arts, Sheffield, UK
2011
Travelling Light, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
The African Continuum: Celebrating Diversity, Recognizing Contributions of People of African Descent, United Nations, New York, New York, USA
Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island, USA*
Textile’11: Rewind-Play-Forward, 8th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania
Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
I Know Something About Love, Parasol Unit, London, UK
Sprit and Space: Collection of Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain*
African Interweave: Textile Diasporas, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA*
Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA; tours to The Anderson Gallery, Virginia University, Richmond, Virginia, USA*
The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c. Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2010
Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
Performance/Art, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, Texas, USA
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Eye of the Pacific Rim, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan City, South Korea
DaDaFest International, Liverpool, UK
Before and After Modernism: Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK*
The House of Fairy Tales, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
Lust and Vice. The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kustmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, California, USA
Nothing is Forever, South London Gallery, London, UK
Foundation of Art: Sculpture and its Base since Rodin, ARP Museum, Bonn, Germany
The 242nd Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK*
Who Knows Tomorrow, Nationalgalerie-Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Friedrichswerder Kirche, Berlin, Germany*
Until Now: Collecting the Contemporary (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Size DOES Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York, USA
Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, USA
Pattern I.D., Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA*
2009
Bodies in Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
3 Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1965-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA*
Perhaps Truth is a Woman, Museum of European Garden Art, Düsseldorf, Germany*
Persona, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
The Genre Rebellion, Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain*
Pictures in Series, Fischer Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA
2008
US, Palácio do catete - Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Space Now!, The Triangle Gallery, Space Studios, London, UK
The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA*
The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York, USA
Angaza Afrika, The October Gallery, London, UK*
Body Space, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
2007
African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Stardust or the Last Border, MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Scratch the Surface, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Role Exchange: A Group Show, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa*
Check-List Luanda Pop, African Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy*
William Hogarth, Tate Britain, London, UK*
Fashion Accidentally, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Tomorrow Now: When Design Meets Science Fiction, MUDAM Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg*
War and Discontent, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Uncomfortable Truths – The Shadow of Slave Trading on Contemporary Art and Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; tours to Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, UK and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK*
Crossing the Water, City Gallery, Leicester, UK; tours to Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford, UK
2006
Space is the Place, Independent Curators International, New York, New York, USA
The Uses of Paint II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Transvideo, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Primitivism Revisited: After the End of an Idea, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK*
William Hogarth, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France*
RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA*
DRESSCODE, Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland
MASQUERADE, DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Africa Remix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; tours to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden*
A Historic Occasion, Artists Making History, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA*
Around The World In Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, London, UK
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, USA
Woman Women, Palais des Beaux Arts/ Entrepõt Royal Tour & Taxi, Brussels, Belgium
Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA
Artificial Afrika, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, New York, USA
East Wing Collection No. 7 Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London, UK*
2005
Horizons: Voices from a Global Africa, New Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden
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; tours to the Palazzo Strozzi,
Florence, Italy
Take Two: Worlds and Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, USA*
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Acting Out: The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa, USA*
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Flexible 4: Identities, LVR-Industriemuseum Tuchfabrik Müller, Euskirchen, Germany*
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Hayward Gallery, London; tours to Musée national d’art modern (MNAM)Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France*
2004
Continental Drift: Installations by Ilya Kabakov, Joan Jonas, Juan Muños, Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA*
Turner Prize 2004, Tate Britain, London, UK*
African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA*
Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden*
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany*
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK*
Flexible 4: Identities, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; tours to TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands and Oberösterreichische Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria*
Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2003
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco, California, USA
Flexible 4: Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK*
Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, The Museum of African Art, New York, New York, USA*
Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK
Undomesticated Interiors, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA*
Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Linings: Clothing in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Fine Arts of Québec, Québec City, Canada *
The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, San Francisco, California; tours to New Museum, New York, New York, USA *
2002
Attitude 2002: The Truth in Our Heart, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan*
Extension, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden
The Memory of Water, Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany*
The Short Century, P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA*
2001
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands*
Popular Cultures, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Authentic/Ex-centric: Africa in and out of Africa, 49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy *
Vantage Point: Ernesto Neto, Rob Pruitt, Michael Raedecker, Daniel Richter, Ugo Rondinone, Yinka Shonibare, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland*
Mirror’s Edge, Tramway, Glasgow, UK; tours to Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark*
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; tours to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA*
Give and Take: 1 Exhibition 2 Sites, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK*
Secret Victorians, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Art through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway*
2000
Other Modernities, University of Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
Laboratory: Continental Shift-Artists from the African continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London, UK*
Sharing Exoticism, 5th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France*
South Meets West, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland*
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1999
In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham, UK
From Where–To Here, Art from London, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg Sweden
Mirror’s Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; tours to Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy*
South Meets West, National Museum of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Art in Dialogue: From Gauguin to the Global Present, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
Missing Link: The Image of Man in Contemporary Photography, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland*
Heaven: An Exhibition that will Break Your Heart, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; tours to Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK; tours to Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA*
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 1999, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK *
1998
Five Continents and One City, The Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Ethno-antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, New York, USA
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, The Minorities Art Gallery, Colchester, UK; tours to Arnolfini, Bristol, UK*
Sensation, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany*
Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada*
Global Visions: New Art from the ‘90s (part 1), DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece*
Personal Effects: Sculpture & Belongings, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK; tours to Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
Transatlantic: Dissemination, Crossing and Deterritorialization, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain*
Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand*
Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA
1997
Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966- 1996, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, USA; tours to Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, New York, USA and Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, New York, USA*
Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa*
Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; tours to National Gallery of Berlin, Berlin, Germany and Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA*
Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; tours to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia*
1996
Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?, London Printworks Trust, London, UK*
Discreet Charm: Yinka Shonibare and Kate Smith, Visionfest, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, UK*
Inclusion: Exclusion-Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and Global Migration, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria*
Jurassic Technology, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia*
Painting, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Out of Order: 1996, Independent Art Space, London, UK; tours to Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK *
Imagined Communities, Oldham Art Gallery, Manchester, UK; tours to John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK; The Minories, Colchester, UK; Royal Festival Hall, London, UK and Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, UK*
1995
The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex, Barbican Centre, London, UK*
Seeing and Believing, The Economist Building, London, UK
Original, Gasworks, London, UK
1994
2 out of 4 Dimensions, Centre 181 Gallery, London, UK
Seen/Unseen, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK*
Where are they now...?, Byam Shaw Gallery, London, UK
TENQ, Senegal, West Africa
1993
Space Studios Open Exhibition, London, UK
1992
Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1991
Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery, New York, New York, USA; tours to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Madison Art Centre, Madison, Wisconsin, USA and Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, USA*
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1989
Byam Shaw Final Year Show, London, UK
Black Art New Directions, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent, UK
1988
Byam Shaw Concourse Gallery, London, UK
Curated Projects
2019
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare CBE Curates the Arts Council Collection, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK; tours to Longside Gallery, Wakefield, UK and Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK*
2018
Talisman in the Age of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE Curates the Arts Council Collection, Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK*
2012
Deloitte Ignite 2012: African Weekend, Royal Opera House, London, UK
2010
Artists’ Choices - Yinka Shonibare: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
2005
Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, New York, USA
Public Art
2023
Hibiscus Rising, Aire Park, Leeds
2022
Wind Sculpture (TG) I, Gene Leahy Mall at The RiverFront, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Wind Sculpture in Bronze I, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden
2021
Wind Sculpture (SG) IX, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Wind Sculpture (SG) II, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Material (SG) II, 360 Rosemary, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2020
Wind Sculpture (SG) V, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (July 2020 – May 2021)
2019
Material (SG) I, Whitman-Walker Health Center, Washington D.C., USA (2019-2021)
Wind Sculpture (SG) IV, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA (September 2019 – May 2020)
Wind Sculpture (SG) III, Norval Foundation, Cape Town, South Africa
2018
Wind Sculpture (SG) I, Public Art Fund Commission, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, New York, USA (7 March – 14 October 2018); permanently installed at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
2016
Wind Sculpture VII, Smithsonian Museum of African Art, Washington D.C., USA
Wind Sculpture VI, British Council UK/ Nigeria 2015-16, Ndubuisi Kanu Park, Lagos, Nigeria (21 November 2016 – 31 January 2017)
RA Family Album, Burlington Gardens Frontage, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (16 May 2016 – 14 May 2017)
2014
Wind Sculpture V, Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden, The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Wind Sculpture, Howick Place, London, UK
2012
Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK
Globe Head Ballerina, Royal Opera House, London, UK ( January 2012 – October 2017)
2010
Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (24 May 2010 – 31 January 2012)
2000
effective, defective, creative, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London, UK
1998
Diary of a Victorian Dandy, London Underground, London, UK (1–29 October 1998)
Awards and Residencies
2021
The 8th recipient of the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award, London, UK
2020
Awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award, London, UK
2016
African Arts Award, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute,
New York, New York, USA
US Annual Visionaries!, The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) Arts Award, New York, New York, USA
2010
The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award, London, UK
2008
Fourth Plinth Award Nominee, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, London, UK
2007
Honorary Doctorate Degree, Huron University, Ontario, Canada
2004
IASPIS, The International Artists’ Studio Program, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
Residency, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
2000
Residency, MCA DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1999
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (Shortlisted), London, UK
1998
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists, London, UK
Royal Society of Arts, Art for Architecture Award, London, UK
1992
Barclays Young Artist Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
London Arts Board Artist's Grant, London, UK
Selected Public Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
British Council, London, UK
British Museum, London, UK
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Fondation Blachère, Apt, France
Foundling Museum, London, UK
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C, USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Magasin III, Stockholm, Sweden
MART Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C., USA
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania, USA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Road Island, USA
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Stichting de Onvoltooide, The Hague, Netherlands
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York, USA
Tate, London, UK
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, USA
VandenBroek Foundation, Sassenheim, Netherlands
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław, Poland
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa