Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare ( b. 1962 in London) is a British- Nigerian artist, printed mainly by working with Dutch Wax, colorful cotton fabrics has become known. Shonibare discovered by chance on the Brixton Market in London that the Dutch Wax fabrics from which a professional costume establishes the Victorian clothes for him, were originally discovered by the Dutch.

Life and work

Yinka Shonibare, MBE leads the title 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 Britain to there later his schooling with the advanced level complete.

At the age of eighteen he contracted Transverse Myelitis and it is paralyzed as a long-term follow- sided.

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

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

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

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo Exhibitions

• 2013 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
• Yinka Shonibare MBE in 2010, Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin
• Yinka Shonibare MBE 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
• 2009 Brooklyn Museum, New York City, USA
• 2009 National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
• Yinka Shonibare 2004, Double Dutch Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• 2004 Vasa Commission for the opening of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2003 Padiglione d' Arte Contemporanea of Milan, Italy
• 2000 Affectionate Men Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• Henie Onstad Art Centre in 1999, Høvikodden, Norway
• 1998 Diary of A Victorian Dandy Iniva London

Group Exhibitions

• 2013 The Divine Comedy, Museum of Modern Art ( MMK), Frankfurt am Main.
• 2012 Rococo Mania Design Museum Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2012 Six Yards Guaranteed Dutch Wax Real 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 Benrath Palace, Museum of European Garden History, Dusseldorf, Germany
• 2008 Nos Catete Palace, 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 Centre 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, The Netherlands
• Sensation 1997 Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

Awards

• 2009 Fellow of Goldsmiths College
• 2005 Member of the most excellent Order of the British Empire ( MBE)