Yinka Shonibare
Curriculum Vitae
Born: 1962 in London
Lives and works in London
One-Person Exhibitions
2003
'Play with me', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
'Double Dress', KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland (catalogue)
2002
'Double Dress', Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, and touring (catalogue)
Studio Museum, Harlem, USA (catalogue)
2001
Christmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London
Britannia project, Tate Britain, London
'Be-muse', The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (brochure)
Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa (ctalogue)
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
'Effective, defective, creative', permanent video installation, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London
Camden Arts Centre, London
'Affectionate Men', Victoria and Albert Museum, London
inIVA tour of 'Diary of a Victorian Dandy Project'; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
1999
'Dressing Down', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; touring to Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno (catalogue)
Brent Sikkema, New York
1998
'Diary of a Victorian Dandy', site-specific project on the London Underground, commissioned and produced by inIVA, London
'Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids', Tablet, the Tabernacle, London; Norwich Art Gallery
1997
Stephen Friedman Gallery
'Present Tense' contemporary project series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1995
'Sun, Sea and Sand', BAC Gallery, London
1994
'Double Dutch', Centre 181 Gallery, London
1989
Byam Shaw Gallery, London
Bedford Hill Gallery, London
Group Exhibitions
2003
'Looking both Ways', The Museum of African Art, New York
'Love over Gold', Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
'Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti', The New Museum, New York
'Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
'(doublures), vêtements de l'art contemporain', Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec
'Independence', South London Gallery, London
'The African Exile Museum', Migros Museum, Zürich
'Somewhere better than this Place', The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
2002
'Extension', Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
'Attitude 2002', Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
'Extension', Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
'Documenta 11', Kassel, Germany
'Spoleto Festival', Charleston, USA
2001
'Authentic / Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art', 49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy
'Unpacking Europe', Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and touring
'The Short Century', Museum Villa Stuck, Munich and touring
'Art through the Eye of the Needle', Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
'Give and Take', Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London
'Secret Victorians', Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
'Vantage Point', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
'Sense of Wonder', Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel
2000
'Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture', MCA Chicago, USA;
'Partage d'exotismes', 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
'Other Modernities', Camberwell College of Arts, London
'Laboratory.Continental Shift', Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
'Intelligence: New British Art 2000', Tate Britain, London, UK
'South Meets West', Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
1999
'From where - To here, Art from London', Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden
'Kunstwelten im Dialog', Museum Ludwig, Cologne
'Missing Link', Museum of Arts, Bern
'Heaven', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery Liverpool
'Mirror's Edge', BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden; touring Vancouver Art Gallery, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Tramway, Glasgow, Charlottenborg, Kopenhagen until September 2001
'Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize', Photographers' Gallery, London
'In the Midst of Things', Bournville Village, Birmingham
'Secret Victorians', Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
'Sensation', Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
1998
'Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad', Museo de la Ciudad de México, México D.F.
'Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings', Spacex Gallery, Exeter; touring to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
'Ethno-antics', Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
'Crossings', National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
'Liberating Tradition', Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
'Transatlantico', Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain; 'Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora', Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
'Global Vision; New Art from the 90s' Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece; 1997
'Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection', Royal Academy of Arts, London; touring to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
'Portable Personal Histories Museum'', Ikon gallery, Birmingham, UK;
'Trade Routes: History and Geography', 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa
'Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996', Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, New York; Studio Museum, Harlem; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York;
'Pictura Britannica', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, touring to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zeland
'What', Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
1996
'Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?', London Printworks Trust
'Imagined Communities', National Touring Exhibition Oldham Art Gallery; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton; Colchester Minories; Royal Festival Hall, London and Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art
'Discreet Charm', Visionfest, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool
'Inklusion:Exclusion', Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
'Jurassic Technology', 10th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
'Painting', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
'Out of Order', IAS, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester
1995
'The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex', Barbican Centre, London
'Seeing and Believing', The Economist Building, London
'Original', Gas Works, London
1994
'2 out of 4 dimensions', Centre 181 Gallery, London
'Where are they now...?', Byam Shaw Gallery, London
'Seen/unseen', Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
'TENQ', Group exhibition in Senegal, West Africa
1993
Space Studio Open Exhibition, London
1992
Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London
1991
'Interrogating Identity', Grey Art Gallery, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis; Madison Art Centre, Wisconsin; Memorial Art Museum, Ohio
Goldsmiths College, London
1989
Black Art New Directions, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery
Byam Shaw Final year show, London
1988
Byam Shaw Concourse Gallery, London
Reviews/Articles
2002
Roger Boyes in The Times
Jalouse, No 50 2002
Barbara Pollack in Art Monthly
Anthoney Downey in Contemporary
Wasafiri
Shayna Skarf in Time Out, New York
Art Agenda, ELLE (Italy)
A. Di Genova in Marie Claire (Italy)
2001-2002
Roma Sur la Terre
2001
Luca Beatrice Arte Mondadori
Francesca Morelli Vernissage, Il Giornale dell'Arte
Nigrizia
Fiammettte Bonazzi Gulliver
Valentina Agostinis Carnet - Black
Interni
Mariuccia Casadio Vogue Italia
Linda De Santis La Repubblica
Kirsty Wigglesworth The Independent
Kirsty Wrigglesworth The Guardian
Nigel Reynolds The Daily Telegraph
Corriere della Sera, Sette, n. 50 2001
Constanzo Costantini Il Messaggero
Francesca Bonazzoli Corriere della Sera
L. Pratesi Venerdi di Repubblica
Calendario, Trovaroma
E. Del Drago Il Manifesto
Lauretta Colonnelli Cronaca di Roma, Corriere della Sera
Calendario, Un Ospite
Calendar. La Stampa
Extract
Sonia Campagnola FA News, Flash Art, no.230
Carolina Corbetta Vogue Italia
M. de Candia Trovaroma
A. Di Genova D - La Repubblica delle Donne, n. 278
Alessandra Mammi L'Espresso
Maev Kennedy The Guardian
Daniel Birnbaum Artforum
Sarah Kent Time Out
Medb Ruane The Sunday Times
Neil Cameron The Scotsman
Andrew Wilson Art Monthly
Richard Cork The Times
2000
Simon Grant Evening Standard
Helen Sumpter The Big Issue
Sue Hubbard The Independent on Sunday
Sarah Kent Time Out
Rachel Cambell-Johnston The Times
Dan Cameron n.11-12 Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art
1999
Petra Halkes Border crossings vol.17, n. 14 1999
Winter Laura U. Marks Fuse Magazine
Olu Oguibe Art Journal
Holland Cotter New York Times
Dan Cameron Art News
Howard Halle Time Out (New York)
Niru Ratnam Art Monthly
Fiona Lynch Birmingham Post
John Russel Taylor The Times Metro
Terry Grimley Birmingham Post
Rachel Halliburton The Indipendent
Neal Brown Frieze
1998
Christine Atha Artists Newsletter
Elizabeth Janus Artforum International
Review Noir n. 30
Das Kunst Bulletin, no.10
Adrian Searle The Guardian
Space,The Guardian
Nancy Hines Untitled n. 17 1998
Attitude
Denrele Ogunwa Untold Magazine
Paul O' Kane Pride Magazine
Richard Cork The Times
John Tozer Art Monthly
Time Out
Alex Farquarson Art Monthly
Black Film Bulletin, Vol.6, Issue 2/3
1997
Okwui Enwezor Flash Art
Deborah S. Creighton East-side Resident
Holland Cotter NY Times Weekend
Sarah Kent Time Out
Judith E.Stein Art in America
David Burrows Art Monthly
Sacha Craddock The Times
Mark Currah Time Out
1996
May Sue Hubbard Time Out
Okwui Enwezor Frieze
1995
Kobena Mercer Frieze
Tania Guha Third Text
James Hall The Guide (The Guardian)
Martin Coomer Time Out
1994
Millie Hill Disability Arts Magazine
1993
Elsbeth Court African Arts
1992
Andrew Graham-Dixon The Independent
Sarah Kent Time Out
Publications
2002
'Double Dress', The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
'Yinka Shonibare', The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2001
'Unpacking Europe', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
'Yinka Shonibare. Be-Muse', Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Rome
'Tricking the Mind: the work of Yinka Shonibare', by Okwui Enwezor in 'Authentic/Eccentric - Conceptualism in African Art', 49th Venice Biennale
'Yinka Shonibare', The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
'Vantage Point', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
'Bo01 City of Tomorrow', European Housing Expo, Malmo, Sweden
'The Short Century', Museum Villa Stuck, München
'Camouflage', Centre of Contemporary Art of Southern Africa, Johannesburg
'Give and Take', Serpentine gallery, London
'What is Print?' by O. A. Bamgboyé, in 'Technology and Culture'; Witte de With Center For Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2000
'Intelligence', Tate Britain, London
'South Meets West', Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
'Other Modernities', The London Institute
1999
'Mirror's Edge', Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
'Dressing Down', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
'Heaven', Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
'Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize', London
1998
'Personal Effects. Sculpture & Belongings.'', Spacex Gallery, Exeter
'Secret Victorians'; Arts Council touring exhibition
'Crossings', National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1997
'Trade Routes: History and Geography', 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
'Present Tense', Art gallery of Ontario, Toronto
'Sensation', Royal Academy of Arts, London
'What', Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
1996
'Annotations 1', Institute of International Visual Arts, London
'Pledge Allegiance to A Flag?', London Printworks Trust
'Inklusion: Exklusion', Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
'Jurassic Technology', Tenth Biennale of Sydney, Australia
'Out of Order', Independent Art Space, London
1995
'Imagined Communities', National Touring Exhibition, The South Bank Centre, London
'The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex', Barbican Centre, London
1994
'Seen/unseen', Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1992
Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London
Awards & Residencies
Fellow of Goldsmiths college, London, UK, 2003
Residency Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA, 2001
Residency MCA DePaul University, Chicago, USA, April 2000
Shortlisted Citybank Private Bank Photography Prize 1999
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Visual Artists, 1998
Royal Society of Arts, Art for Architecture Award 1998
Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, 1992
London Arts Board Artist's Grant, 1992