...Dan Cameron which is imposed upon the individ• YINKA SHONIBARE ual from the outside, and a histor• ical projection, created to deflect...

...Derek Conrad Murray Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 The sculptures have a quiet, mocks essentialist notions of the dainty female figure is clad Yinka Shonibare...

...Michael Westfall This essay reviews Yinka Shonibare MBE’s exhibition Addio del passato , exploring themes of decay, dissipation, and death as expressed through the historical figure of Lord Nelson. Shonibare’s exhibition casts Nelson as a hapless metonym for the colonial urge, suggesting that both...

...Andrea Frohne Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 lecting, colonialism, and global YINKA SHONIBARE exchange. For instance, the skin...

...Amanda Gilvin Copyright © 2009 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 YINKA SHONIBARE GARDEN OF LOVE Musee du Quai Branly Paris, France April 2 - July 8, 2007 A tail transparent wall separates the gardens of the Musee du...

...Jennie Hirsh This review examines the midcareer retrospective Yinka Shonibare MBE in the context of its third and final venue, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC. The survey featured examples of the artist’s familiar interests—the complex relationship between colonial...

... British artist Yinka Shonibare, this essay suggests that Wilde’s caricature as a black(face) minstrel dandy on his visit to America in the 1880s was both a compliment and an insult. Wilde as black dandy, and/or the black dandy in association with Wilde, attempted to associate the aesthete with an apish...

..., António Ole, Yinka Shonibare, MBE, and Pascale Marthine Tayou. The artists’ work engaged visitors with a range of difficult issues, including the role that Germany and the city of Berlin played in the colonization of Africa. The exhibit also acknowledged and explored the complex postcolonial relationship...

...Yinka Shonibare, CBE © 2021 by Nka Publications 2021 Dandies in Solidarity Yinka Shonibare CBE Yinka Shonibare CBE, Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 11.00 hours, 1998. Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 14.00 hours, 1998. Included in the exhibition Included in the exhibition Mirror s Edge, Bildmuseet...

... Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Scramble for Africa, 2003. © Courtesy the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, and James Cohan Gallery, New York. Photo: Jens Ziehe. Image provided...

... of Summer Exhibition 2020 (October 6, 2020 January 3, 2021) at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, showing Yinka Shonibare, Air Kid (Girl). Fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, globe, brass, steel baseplate, umbrella. Back right: Oscar Murillo, Manifestation, 2019. Oil, oil stick, cotton...

..., and photography. Note 1 Christophe De Jaeger, “Introduction,” in Christophe De Jaeger and Ramona Van Gansbeke, eds., Haute Africa: People. Photog- raphy. Fashion (Tielt: Lannoo, 2014), 5–6. Yinka Shonibare, Sleep of Reason...

... And home what's been found I'm not stopping —Bjork, "Hunter," 1997 Laurie Ann Farrell 38* Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art Yinka Shonibare, Scramble for Africa, 2000-2003. Fourteen figures...

... socioeconomic realities and the surreal nature of governmental institutions such as migrant detention centers in Europe. The Nigerian London- based Yinka Shonibare s multimedia installation Dysfunctional Family (1999) is a playful exploration of status, alienation, and multiculturalism as experi- enced...

... of an equally close and fruitful reading. Apart from representing an American attention that would in time assume limited, but nevertheless important, academic di- mensions, Transforming the Crown had the vision and presence of mind to include in its roster Yinka Shonibare, who was already on his way to taking...

... together a wide vari• turalism and issues of identity that take time collaborator, curator and critic ety of works such as the installations of into consideration racial, cultural, his• Octavio Zaya, "Alternating Currents" Yinka Shonibare, Vivan Sundaram...

... is confident, hip, and Two such works from the show are Jane Alexan- beautiful. These photographs offer nothing less than der s Butcher Boys (1985 86) and Yinka Shonibare s a radical reimagining of the African figure to view- 100 Years (2000), which link to Africa s liberation ers beyond the continent...

..., Yinka Shonibare, takes up this conundrum in his work in order to illustrate an African misunderstanding of the continent’s tra- ditional clothes and symbols. He uses the Dutch wax fabric in many of his works. Today, around the world, that same fabric is considered an iconic marker for African...

..., William Kentridge, Georges stakeholders to initiate or support the establishment Adeagbo, Santu Mofokeng, Yinka Shonibare, Chris of contemporary art institutions open to their pub- Ofili, Sokari Douglas Camp, Lorna Simpson, Has- lics. Else, the invaluable work of our artists or that san Musa, Kerry...