The Nigerian-born, London-based Yinka Shonibare CBE began exploring politics in his art while in school at Goldsmiths, eventually turning his practice toward deconstructing stereotypes and questioning ...

The British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare was given carte blanche for his first major solo exhibition on the African continent. Safiotra [Hybridities] at the Fondation H in Antananarivo, Madagascar, ...

The Paris gallery will stage its first solo exhibition of the interdisciplinary British artist in October.

Yinka Shonibare MBE, “The British Library” (2014), hardback books, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, gold foiled names, table with benches, four iPads, iPad ...

In the alternate universe of Yinka Shonibare's artworks, Victorian ladies sport bustles of batik, Enlightenment mathematicians misplace limbs, disabled black men penetrate British society and nearly ...

Clothing is communication. Like it or not, what we wear sends a visual message to those around us (think of the old saying, “Clothes make the man.” We recognize when someone is “overdressed” or ...

US President Trump could be forgiven for thinking there’s something strangely familiar about Yinka Shonibare’s latest sculpture, which will be unveiled three blocks from Trump Tower on March 7.

The 23-foot-tall work, installed by the Public Art Fund, will be the artist's first outdoor sculpture in New York. A rendering of Yinka Shonibare, Wind Sculpture (SG) I. Courtesy of the artist, James ...

The British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare CBE has opened a years-in-the-making residency program and art space in Nigeria that aims to foster exchange between artists of different cultures and ...

The artist Yinka Shonibare will erect a memorial in honor of David Oluwale, a Nigerian immigrant who died 51 years ago in the English city of Leeds after prolonged harassment by local police.

The hibiscus and the rose. The rose represents Yinka Shonibare’s birthplace and current home of London. The rose is England’s national flower, long used to symbolize the nation. The hibiscus ...

Yinka Shonibare, the London-based artist of Nigerian descent, was in New York recently to install his new retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. While he was here we grabbed some lunch to talk about ...