Exhibitions

2013

FOCUS: Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA (solo)

Le Pont, Musée d'Art Contemporain, project for Marseille-Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture, France

Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA

Brilliant Disguise: Masks and Other Transformations, Contemporary Art Centre, Louisiana, USA

Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting: 15th Anniversary Collection, MOCA, North Miami, USA

Encounters: Photography from the Sheldon Museum of Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Biennale Cuvée, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria

Dreaming Rich, Pearl Lam Galleries, Hong Kong, China (solo)

POP!, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo)

FABRIC-ATION, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK (solo)

Out of Fashion, glHoltegaard, Holte, Denmark; travelling to Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark

2012 - 2013

The Progress of Love, Center for Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria; touring to The Menil Collection, Texas, USA; The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, Germany

artbindLuxe: Mode D’Emploi, Passage de Retz, Paris, France

Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Centre for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA; toured to Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada; and to the Glenbow Art Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Six Yards, Guaranteed Dutch Design, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, Netherlands

The Crisis Commission, Somerset House, London, UK

Cotton: Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Rokoko Mania: Contemporary art and design in dialogue with crafts from the 1700’s, Designmuseum Danmark, København, Denmark

Déjà vu? Die Kumst der Wiederholung von Durer bis YouTube (Déjà vu? The Art of Reproduction from Durer YouTube) Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

Block Party, Smiths Row, London; toured to National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland; New Walk Museum & Gallery, Leicester, UK

Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK

Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, and Discovery, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA

The Desire for Freedom: Art in Europe since 1945, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Germany

Addio del Passato, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

Imagined as the Truth, San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, USA (solo)

2012

Happening to Be, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, UK

Trade Routes Over Time, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21c Collection, Cincinnati Art Museum, USA

African Interweave: Textile Diasporas, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida, USA

Spirit and Space: The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Santander Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain

The African Continuum, the United Nations, New York, USA

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, USA

Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia, USA

Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, USA

Environment and Object: Recent African Art, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York, USA

Rewind-Play-Forward, Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania

Made in the UK: Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium

I Know Something About Love, Parasol Unit, London, UK

2011

Travelling Light, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

El Futuro del Pasado, Alcalá 31 Centros de Arte, Madrid, Spain, curated by Octavio Zaya; toured to Centro de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Canaria, Spain (solo)

2010 - 2011

Lust and Vice. The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman, Kustmuseum Bern and the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland

GSK Contemporary—Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Nothing is Forever, South London Gallery, London, UK

Performance/Art, Dallas Center for the Performing Arts, Dallas, USA

DaDaFest International, Liverpool, UK

Human Culture: Earth, Wind, Fire and Water, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (solo)

Before and After Modernism: Byam Shaw, Rex Vicat Cole, Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saints Martins College of Art & Design, London, UK (solo)

Looking Up, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco (solo)

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Pattern I.D., Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA

Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Sculpture, Photography and Film, Western Michigan University, Michigan, USA (solo)

Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Size DOES Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

Who Knows Tomorrow, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, Germany

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK

Foundation of Art: Sculpture and its Base since Rodin, ARP Museum, Bonn, Germany

Eye of the Pacific Rim, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Ansan City, Korea

Spanish Muse: A Contemporary Response, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA

Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis, San Francisco, California, USA

The House of Fairy Tales, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK

Lust and Vice: The 7 Deadly Sins from Durer to Nauman, Art Museum of Bern, Switzerland

2010

Raw, 242nd Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, UK

Until Now: Collecting the Contemporary (1960–2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA

Perhaps Truth is a Woman, Museum of European Garden History, Dusseldorf, Germany

Unbounded: New Art for a New Century, Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA

Bodies in Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA

Pictures in Series, Fischer Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA

Persona, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child & Other Astonishing Works, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California, USA (solo)

British Subjects: Identity and Self-Fashioning, 1965–2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA

Yinka Shonibare MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia; toured to Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA, and national Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA (solo)

A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA (solo)

A Centenary Commission, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland (solo)

Party Time: Re-Imagine America, A Centennial Commission by Yinka Shonibare MBE, Newark Museum, USA (solo)

2009

Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo)

A Rebelión dos Xeneros (The Rebellion of Genres), Centro Torrente Ballester, Ferrol, Spain

Odile and Odette, Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, USA (solo)

Prospero’s Monsters, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA, (solo)

Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia; toured to Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Smithsonian, Washington DC, USA (solo)

Body Space, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK

The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA

Angaza Afrika, The October Gallery, London, UK

Space Now!, The Triangle Gallery at Space Studios, London, UK

2008

Nos, Museu de republica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

War and Discontent, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Tomorrow Now: When Design Meets Science Fiction, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Uncomfortable Truths—the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art and design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; toured to Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK

Check-List Luanda Pop, African Pavillion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy

African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA

Role Exchange, Sean Kelly, New York, USA

Stardust or the Last Border, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne (MAC/VAL), Vitry-sur-Seine, France

Summer Show, New York Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

White Flag at Half Mast, commission for the Jubilee Flagpole, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, UK (solo)

Jardin d’Amour, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France (solo)

2007

Scratch the Surface, National Gallery, London, UK (solo)

Crossing the Water, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford; travelled to City Gallery, Leicester, UK

A Historic Occasion, Artists Making History, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA

Contemporary Commonwealth, The Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

East Wing Collection No. 7 Culture Bound, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London, UK

Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Artificial Afrika, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, USA

Yinka Shonibare Installation, Speed Museum, Kentucky, USA (solo)

Flower Time, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo)

Around The World In Eighty Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts and South London Gallery, London, UK

Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Photography: Recent Acquisitions, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York, USA

Los Usos de la Pintura II, Espacio 1414, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Space is the Place, Independent Curators International, New York, USA

DRESSCODE, Historisches und Volkerkundemuseum (History and Ethnology Museum), St Gallen, Switzerland

MASCARADA/MASQUERADE, DA2-Domus Artium 2002, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain

Transvideo, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

William Hogarth, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France; travelled to Tate Britain, London, UK; Caixa Forum Madrid, Spain

Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, California, USA

Alien Nation, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

RADAR: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, USA

2006

Primitivism Revisited, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

African Voices, New Museum of World Cultures, Gothenburg, Sweden

Ten-Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Acting Out: The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA; toured to the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, USA

Take Two. Worlds and Views, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Africa Remix, Contemporary Art of a Continent, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; toured to Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

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, CA, USA

Collaborative film/dance project with the Royal Opera House and the Africa Centre, London, UK (solo)

Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York, USA (solo)

2005

Mobility, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)

Woman Women, Ville de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland; toured to the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; Palais des Beuax Arts/Entrepõt Royal Tour & Taxis

Yinka Shonibare, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA (solo)

Vasa, Commission for the opening of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)

Yinka Shonibare, Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands; toured to Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (solo)

Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)

Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts, san Francisco, CA, USA

Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, New York, NY, USA

Fashination, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Continental Drift: Installations by Ilya Kabakov, Joan Jonas, Juan Muños, Yinka Shonibare, Norton Museum in West Palm Beach, FL, USA

2004

African Art, African Voices: Long Steps Never Broke a Back, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, USA

Flexible 4: Identities, Landes Museen, Linz, Austria

(doublures), vêtements de l'art contemporain, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada

Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

The African Exile Museum, Migros Museum, Zürich, Switzerland

Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK

Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA

2003

Play with me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo)

Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum, New York, NY, USA

Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, The Museum for African Art, New York, USA

Double Dress, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; toured to Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Israel Studio Museum, Harlem, NY, USA; and Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (solo)

Flexible 4: Identities, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)

Be-muse, The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy (solo)

Britannia project, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)

Christmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)

Camouflage, Johannesburg, South Africa (solo)

Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

Attitude 2002, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

2002

Extension, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden

Spoleto Festival, Charleston, WV, USA

Sense of Wonder, Herzliya Museum of Art, Israel

Vantage Point, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Secret Victorians, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Art through the Eye of the Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway

Unpacking Europe, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Authentic/Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art, 49th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Levi, Venice, Italy

2001

Stephen Friedman Gallery and 2nd Floor, 12 Dolland Street, London, UK (solo)

The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

Effective, defective, creative, permanent video installation, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London, UK (solo)

Affectionate Men, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK (solo)

Diary of a Victorian Dandy Project, INIVA; toured to Castle Museum, Nottingham; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (solo)

Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (solo)

South Meets West, Accra, Ghana and Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

Partage d’exotismes, 5th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

Continental Shift: Artists from the African Continent in Europe, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

2000

Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, MCA Chicago, IL, USA

Intelligence: New British Art 2000, Tate Britain, London, UK

Other Modernities, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK

Sensation, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

Secret Victorians, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, Firstsite, Colchester; Arnolfini, Bristol; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

In the Midst of Things, Bournville Village, Birmingham, UK

Mirror’s Edge, Bild Museet, Umeå, Sweden; toured to Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; Tramway, Glasgow; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

Kunstwelten im Dialog, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

From Where–to Here: Art from London, Konsthallen Göteborg, Sweden

Brent Sikkema, New York, USA (solo)

1999

Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; toured to Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, UK (solo)

Missing Link, Museum of Arts, Bern, Switzerland

Beyond Mere Likeness: Portraits from Africa and the African Diaspora, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, NC, USA

Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids, Tablet, the Tabernacle, London; toured to Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, UK (solo)

Diary of a Victorian Dandy, site-specific project on the London Underground, commissioned and produced by INIVA, London, UK (solo)

Global Vision; New Art from the ‘90s, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

Transatlantico, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain

1998

Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad (Five Continents and a City), Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico D.F.

Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Ethno-antics, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Personal Effects; Sculpture & Belongings, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; toured to Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Liberating Tradition, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York, NY, USA

Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa

Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; toured to the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide and the City gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966–1996, Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute, New York, NY; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY; the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, USA

What, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK

Portable Personal Histories Museum, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Present Tense, contemporary project series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo)

1997

Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (solo)

Sensation: Young British Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London; toured to the National Gallery of Berlin, Germany and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

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, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Discreet Charm, Visionfest, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool, UK

Inklusion: Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria

Jurassic Technology, 10th Biennale of Sydney, Australia

Painting, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

Out of Order, Independent Art School, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

Original, Gasworks, London, UK

Sun, Sea and Sand, BAC Gallery, London, UK (solo)

1995

The Art of African Textiles: Technology, Tradition and Lurex, Barbican Centre, London, UK

Seeing and Believing, The Economist Building, London, UK

1994

Double Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London, UK (solo)

TENQ, group exhibition in Senegal, West Africa

2 out of 4 dimensions, Centre 181 Gallery, London, UK

Where are they now...?, Byam Shaw Gallery, London, UK

Seen/unseen, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1993

Space Studios Open Exhibition, London, UK

1992

Barclays Young Artists Award, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

1991

Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, MN; Madison Art Centre, Wisconsin, WI; Memorial Art Museum, Ohio, OH, USA

Goldsmiths College, London, UK

Byam Shaw Gallery, London, UK (solo)

1989

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

Byam Shaw Final Year Show, London, UK

Byam Shaw Concourse Gallery, London, UK

Bedford Hill Gallery, London, UK (solo)