Yinka shonibare biography of donald
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Exhibition Catalogues & Anthologies
Art & Science Fiction. exh. cat., Metz: Centre Pompidou-Metz. Metz: Éditions du Centre Pompidou-Metz,
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of Empire, eds., Thorsten Sadowsky, Marijana Schneider. , Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Munich: Hirmer,
Great World Theatre: Years of the Salzburg Festival, eds. Martin Hochleitner, Margarethe Lasinger. exh. cat., Salzburg: Salzburg Museum. Salzburg: Residenz Verlag,
Fly Me to the Moon: 50 Years After the Moon Landing. exh. cat., Zurich: Kunsthaus Zürich; Salzburg: Museum der Moderne Salzburg. Cologne: Snoeck,
Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, eds., Ceri Hand, Chiedza Mhondoro, Zak Ové. exh. cat., London: Somerset House,
IncarNations: African Art as Philosophy, ed., Kendell Geers. exh. cat., Brussels: Bozar Centre for Fine Arts. Milan: Silvana editorial, Brussels: Bozar Books,
The Lie of the Land, eds., Fay Blanchar
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Summary of Yinka Shonibare
Artist Yinka Shonibare examines contemporary identity through the loaded and complex lens of post-colonialism. Inspired by his own experiences as a Black man who grew up in both England and Nigeria, his work combines influences from the canons of both Western and indigenous African art, history, and literature to inform conceptual portraits of the unique human experience that emerges from the convoluted relationships spawned by globalization.
Accomplishments
- Authenticity, as it relates to personal identity, is presented by Shonibare as a hybrid construction, representing a marriage of the influences of both one's native environment and the ever-shifting climates that exist when said environment lies prone to the economic, political, and power structures of a ruling presence. This results in art that transcends geographical and cultural borders, challenging traditional notions of identity.
- Shonibare's work questions the overlying narratives, cemented
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Yinka Shonibare CBE
Yinka Shonibare CBE was born in in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria, at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw School of Art, graduating in , and then at Goldsmiths College where he received his MFA in
His interdisciplinary practice, incoportrating painting, sculpture, prints, photography and film, uses citations of Western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities within the context of globalization. Through examining race, class and the construction of cultural identity, his works comment on the tangled interrelationship between Africa and europe, and their respective economic and political histories.
In Shonibare was nominated for the Turner Prize and, in , his mid-career survey began at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, travelling in to the Brooklyn Museum, New York and the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian