1. Biography
  2. CV
  3. Bibliography

Born: 1962 in London, UK
Lives and works in London, UK

Education

  1. 1989–1991

    Goldsmiths College, London, UK

  2. 1984-1989

    Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK

Memberships

  1. 2019

    Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE), London, UK

  2. 2013

    Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

  3. 2012

    Fellow of University of Arts, London, UK

  4. 2010

    Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, UK

  5. 2005

    Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE), London, UK

  6. 2003

    Fellow of Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

* denotes an accompanying publication

  1. 2025

    Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities], Foundation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar*

  2. 2024

    Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States, Serpentine South, London, UK*

  3. 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, UK

  4. 2022

    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

  5. 2021

    African Spirits of Modernism, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
    Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria*

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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*

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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*

  19. 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

  20. 2006

    Flower Time, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

    Yinka Shonibare MBE, Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. 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*

  24. 2002

    Britannia Project, Tate Britain, London, UK

    Double Dress, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel*

    Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, New York, USA *

  25. 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

  26. 2000

    Yinka Shonibare, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

    Affectionate Men, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

  27. 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*

  28. 1998

    Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids, The Tablet Gallery at Tabernacle, London, UK; tours to Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, UK

  29. 1997

    Present Tense: Contemporary Project Series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada*

    Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

  30. 1995

    Sun, Sea and Sand, BAC Gallery, London, UK

  31. 1994

    Double Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London, UK

  32. 1989

    Bedford Hill Gallery, London, UK

  33. 1984

    Byam Shaw Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

* denotes an accompanying publication

  1. 2025

    I Am Me, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford

    Cosmos, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands*

    Changes, Centre for Contemporary Art Łaźnia, Poland

  2. 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

  3. 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, UK

    Threads, 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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*

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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*

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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*

  21. 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*

  22. 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

  23. 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 *

  24. 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*

  25. 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*

  26. 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

  27. 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 *

     

  28. 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

  29. 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*

  30. 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*

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 1993

    Space Studios Open Exhibition, London, UK

  34. 1992

    Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

  35. 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

  36. 1989

    Byam Shaw Final Year Show, London, UK

    Black Art New Directions, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on Trent, UK

  37. 1988

    Byam Shaw Concourse Gallery, London, UK

Curated Projects

  1. 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*

  2. 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*

  3. 2012

    Deloitte Ignite 2012: African Weekend, Royal Opera House, London, UK

  4. 2010

    Artists’ Choices - Yinka Shonibare: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

  5. 2005

    Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, New York, USA

Public Art

  1. 2023

    Hibiscus Rising, Aire Park, Leeds

  2. 2022

    Wind Sculpture (TG) I, Gene Leahy Mall at The RiverFront, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Wind Sculpture in Bronze I, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm, Sweden

  3. 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

  4. 2020

    Wind Sculpture (SG) V, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (July 2020 – May 2021)

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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)

  8. 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

  9. 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)

  10. 2010

    Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (24 May 2010 – 31 January 2012)

  11. 2000

    effective, defective, creative, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London, UK

  12. 1998

    Diary of a Victorian Dandy, London Underground, London, UK (1–29 October 1998)

Awards and Residencies

  1. 2021

    The 8th recipient of the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award, London, UK

  2. 2020

    Awarded the Robson Orr TenTen Award, London, UK

  3. 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

  4. 2010

    The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award, London, UK

  5. 2008

    Fourth Plinth Award Nominee, Trafalgar Square, National Gallery, London, UK

  6. 2007

    Honorary Doctorate Degree, Huron University, Ontario, Canada

  7. 2004

    IASPIS, The International Artists’ Studio Program, Stockholm, Sweden

  8. 2001

    Residency, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

  9. 2000

    Residency, MCA DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

  10. 1999

    The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (Shortlisted), London, UK

  11. 1998

    Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists, London, UK

    Royal Society of Arts, Art for Architecture Award, London, UK

  12. 1992

    Barclays Young Artist Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

    London Arts Board Artist's Grant, London, UK

Selected Public Collections

  1. 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