SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
POP!, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
FABRIC-ATION, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
2012
Invasion, Escape: Aliens do it right!, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
Yinka Shonibare, MBE: Addio del Passato, SCAD, Savannah, Georgia
Imagined as the Truth, San Diego Art Museum
Addio del Passato, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2011
Alcalá 31 Centros de Arte, Madrid, curated by Octavio Zaya
2010
Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London
Yinka Shonibare, MBE – new commission, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2009
Party Time: Re-Imagine America - A Centennial Commission by Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Newark Museum, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland
A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child & other Astonishing Works, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
A Flying Machine for every Man, Woman and Child, Miami Art Museum, Miami
2008
Odile and Odette, Savannah College of Art and Design, ACA Gallery, Atlanta
Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Sydney, Australia; touring to Brooklyn Museum, New York and the Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
Prospero’s Monsters, James Cohan Gallery, New York
2007
Scratch the Surface, National Gallery, London
Jardin d’Amour, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
White Flag at Half Mast, commission for the Jubilee Flagpole, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London
2006
Yinka Shonibare Installation, Speed Museum, Kentucky
Flower Time, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2005
Mobility, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York Collaborative film/dance project with the Royal Opera House and the Africa Centre, London
2004
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London
Yinka Shonibare, Double Dutch, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; touring to Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Vasa, Commission for the opening of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Yinka Shonibare, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
2003
Play with me, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Double Dress, KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland; toured to Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Studio Museum, Harlem, NY and Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2002
Christmas Tree Project, Tate Britain, London
Britannia project, Tate Britain, London
Be-muse, The British School in Rome
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Camouflage, Johannesburg
2001
Stephen Friedman Gallery and 2nd Floor, 12 Dolland Street, London
2000
Effective, defective, creative, permanent video installation, Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London
Camden Arts Centre, London
Affectionate Men, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Diary of a Victorian Dandy Project, INIVA; toured to Castle Museum, Nottingham; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Towner
Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
1999
Dressing Down, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; toured to Henie Onstad Art Centre, Norway; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales
Brent Sikkema, New York
1998
Diary of a Victorian Dandy, site-specific project on the London Underground, commissioned and produced by INIVA, London
Alien Obsessives, Mum, Dad and the Kids, Tablet, the Tabernacle, London; toured to Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich
1997
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Present Tense, contemporary project series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1995
Sun, Sea and Sand, BAC Gallery, London
1994
Double Dutch, Centre 181 Gallery, London
1989
Byam Shaw Gallery, London
Bedford Hill Gallery, London
