This major survey exhibition at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park will present works by Yinka Shonibare CBE from the past three decades. Many of the works have never been shown in the United States, among them sculptures, paintings, photographs, collages, embroidery and film.
Yinka Shonibare CBE: Planets in My Head
Survey Exhibition at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
1 April – 3 October 2022
Shonibare, a self-proclaimed "postcolonial hybrid" of British-Nigerian heritage, has emerged as one of the leading artistic voices in the global art world. He is best known for his playful combination of colourful Dutch wax-fabric patterns popular in West Africa with the fashion of upper-class Victorian culture. As this exhibition reveals, Shonibare thinks globally and uses his artistic imagination to comment on colonialism, art history, environment, education, knowledge, food justice, and other subjects of universal concern.
Food Man, 2021, Fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, metal, steel, brass, hand painted globe, wood, polyurethane, and acrylic paint, 200 x 97 x 223 cm. © Yinka Shonibare CBE. All Rights Reserved, DACS / Artimage. Photographer: Stephen White & Co.