Art fact Friday #25 Yinka Shonibare
- William Mandela Matthews
- Jan 12, 2024
- 2 min read
An Interdisciplinary artist noticed for use of Western art history and literature to examine contemporary cultural and identities. By exploring topics of race, class and cultural identity, the artist magnifies the impact of Africa’s and Europe’s, economic and political histories. The artist has received a multitude of awards and recognition including, are Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Member of the Order of the British Empire, a fellowship at Goldsmith’s College, and the Art for Architecture Award, Royal Society of Arts. Shonibare was nominated for the Turner Prize. The artist has been include in exhibitions at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; among others. The artist is held in notable museum collections internationally, including the Tate Collection, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and VandenBroek Foundation, The Netherlands.
Yinka Shonibare born 1962 in London, UK, he began at the Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London in 1989 and graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London 1991 with an MFA. In 1999, he created "Dysfunctional Family", a sculpture consisting of colored and textured material exhibited at the Venice Biennial. Okwui Enwezor commissioned him in 2002, to create Gallantry and Criminal Conversation, his most recognized work. He became an Honorary Fellow of Goldsmiths' College in 2003, and was awarded an MBE in 2004. 2004, he was also considered for the Turner Prize. In 2008, he exhibited at the MCA Sydney and toured to the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
In 2010, he created his first public art commission on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square “Nelson's Ship in a Bottle”. Shonibare received an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art in 2010 as well. He was elected Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013. In 2016, one of the artist "Wind Sculpture" art works was moved to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC. Titled "Wind Sculpture VII", it is the first sculpture to be permanently installed outside the museum’s entrance. He was awarded the “Commander of the Order of the British Empire” in 2019. Tate acquired His installation “The British Library” in 2019 currently on display at Tate Modern, London. Later he received the Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Award in 2021. He also coordinated The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London in 2021.
He opened survey solo exhibition, Yinka Shonibare CBE: Planets in My Head, at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan in 2022. Wind Sculpture in Bronze I unveiled at Royal Djurgården, Stockholm in 2022. In November 2022, he hosted the international launch of Guest Artists Space Foundation, a non-profit founded and developed by the artist. In 2023 , Shonibare was commissioned to create a series of new works for the exhibition to mark Sharjah Biennial's 30th anniversary.
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