Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare (2012)

Yinka Shonibare , CBE (born August 9, 1962 in London ) is a British - Nigerian artist who is best known for his work with Dutch Wax , printed, colorful cotton fabrics. Shonibare discovered by chance at Brixton Market in London that the Dutch Wax fabrics , which a professional costume designer uses to make Victorian clothing for him, were originally discovered by the Dutch.

Nelson's Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare, in Trafalgar Square , London

life and work

Yinka Shonibare, who has held an MBE since 2005 , was born in London in 1962. His father, a Nigerian lawyer, moved the family to Lagos , Nigeria when he was three years old. Shonibare speaks English and his native language Yoruba .

Shonibare went back to Great Britain to later complete his school education with the advanced level .

At the age of eighteen he developed transverse myelitis and, as a long-term consequence, is paralyzed on one side.

From 1984 to 1989 he studied painting at the Byam Shaw School of Art , now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and from 1989 to 1991 at Goldsmiths, University of London , where he completed his studies with a Masters .

His son, the artist Kayode Shonibare-Lewis was born in 1990 while Shonibare was working for shape arts , an organization in London that makes art accessible to the disabled . He lives and works in the East End of London.

Shonibare was invited to Documenta 11 by Okwui Enwezor in 2002 . There he exhibited his work Gallantry and Criminal Conversation , which meant his international breakthrough for him. Shonibare is one of the Young British Artists and has chosen sculpture , photography , installation , painting and film as artistic means of expression .

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions

Yinka Shonibare sculpture in Yorkshire Sculpture Park .

• 2020 Yinka Shonibare CBE. End of Empire , Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Austria
• 2016 Yinka Shonibare MBE , Turner Contemporary , Margate , Kent , England.
• 2015 Yinka Shonibare MBE, Wildness into a Garden , Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea.
• 2013 Yorkshire Sculpture Park , Wakefield , UK.
• 2010 Yinka Shonibare MBE , Friedrichswerder Church , Berlin .
• 2009 Yinka Shonibare MBE Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney , Australia.
• 2009 Brooklyn Museum , New York City , USA.
• 2009 National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC , USA.
• 2004 Yinka Shonibare, Double Dutch Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam , Netherlands.
• 2004 Vasa Commission for the opening of Moderna Museet , Stockholm , Sweden.
• 2003 Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea Milan , Italy.
• 2002 Christmas Tree Project Tate Britain , London.
• 2000 Affectionate Men Victoria and Albert Museum , London.
• 1999 Henie Onstad Art Center , Høvikodden , Norway.
• 1998 Diary of A Victorian Dandy Iniva London.

Group exhibitions

Wind sculpture (London)

• 2013 The Divine Comedy , Museum of Modern Art (MMK), Frankfurt am Main.
• 2012 Rococo Mania Designmuseum Danmark , Copenhagen , Denmark
• 2012 Six Yards, Guaranteed Real Dutch Wax Exhibition Museum of Modern Art Arnhem , The Netherlands
• 2012 National Craft Gallery Kilkenny , Ireland
• 2011 Sympathy for the Devil Vanhaerents Art Collection Brussels , Belgium
• 2010 Lust and Vice. The Seven Deadly Sins from Dürer to Nauman Kunstmuseum Bern , Switzerland
• 2009 The garage Center for Contemporary Culture , Moscow , Russia
• 2009 Perhaps Truth is a Woman Schloss Benrath , Museum of European Garden History , Düsseldorf , Germany
• 2008 Nos Palácio do Catete , now Museu de republica Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
• 2007 Check-List Luanda Pop African Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale
• 2007 Tomorrow Now: When Design Meets Science Fiction Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam), Luxembourg City , Luxembourg
• 2005 Africa Remix Center Georges Pompidou , Paris , France
• 2002 Extension Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall , Stockholm, Sweden
• 2001 Authentic / Ex-centric: Conceptualism in Contemporary African Art 49th Venice Biennale
• 2001 The Short Century Museum Villa Stuck , Munich
• 2001 Vantage Point Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin , Ireland
• 2000 Laboratory. Continental Shift-Artists from the African continent in Europe Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht , Netherlands
• 1997 Sensation Royal Academy of Arts , London, UK

Awards

• 2009 Fellow of Goldsmiths, University of London
• 2005 Member of the most excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)
• 2004 Turner Prize , Tate London
• 2019 Commander of the most excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)

Web links

• Website Yinka Shonibare

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MMAfA Yinka Shonibare MBE accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)
2. ↑ Saharan vibe Yinka Shonibare - the African textile artist accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)
3. ↑ Smithsonian 2009 Yinka Shonibare, to Artist Turned Professor, accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)
4. ↑ The Telegraph 5/2010: Fourth Plinth: Yinka Shonibare interview accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)
5. ↑ The Guardian 2013 What I see in the mirror: Yinka Shonibare accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)
6. ↑ Museum der Moderne Salzburg Yinka Shonibare CBE End of Empire , accessed on January 28, 2020
7. ↑ Iniva: Diary of A Victorian Dandy ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on December 25, 2013 
8. ↑ Universes in Universe Shonibare 49th Venice Biennale, accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)
9. ↑ invia Yinka Shonibare ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on August 25, 2013  
10. ↑ Yinka Shonibare accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)
11. ↑ Tate accessed on August 25, 2013 (English)