Germany, England. Born 1964
Multi-media installation-salons, painting, sculpture, video, furniture design
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Born 1962 London, England. Known for: Conceptual mixed-media installations, photography.
Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art (now Central Saint Martins College... Read full biography
Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of... Read full biography
Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of the 'Young British Artists' generation. He currently lives and works in the East End of London. Over the past decade, Shonibare has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and... Read full biography
Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of the 'Young British Artists' generation. He currently lives and works in the East End of London. Over the past decade, Shonibare has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. Shonibare's work explores these issues, alongside those of race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance. Using this wide range of... Read full biography
Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of the 'Young British Artists' generation. He currently lives and works in the East End of London. Over the past decade, Shonibare has become well known for his exploration of colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. Shonibare's work explores these issues, alongside those of race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance. Using this wide range of media, Shonibare examines in particular the construction of identity and tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their... Read full biography
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California, New York. Born 1963
Painting
New York, California. Born 1956
Assemblage, botanic abstraction on wood, collage
France. 1921 - 1998
Nouveau realist sculpture-automobiles
New York. 1941 - 2025
Abstract geometric sculpture, minimalism, abstract drawing
United Kingdom. Born 1977
Painting
New York, Illinois. Born 1977
Found object, multi-media sculpture, photography, black art themes
California. 1938 - 2008
Human figure and memorial sculpture
Austria. 1928 - 2000
Modernist painting, poster design, printmaking
California. 1928 - 2023
Abstract optical, light and space movement, minimalism, sculpture
New York, New Jersey. Born 1971
Large-scale female figurative mixed-media paintings, collage, installation
England. Born 1969
Painting, drawing, installation art
New York. Born 1978
Paintings, works on paper, cartoonish symbolic female figures
New York / Kenya. Born 1972
Large-scale figurative collage, scupture, videos, feminist themed work
Nigeria. Born 1975
Sculpture
New York. Born 1969
Sculpture, installations
New York. Born 1960
Text-based painting, allegory, self-portrait
New York, California. Born 1977
African-American male figures in heroic poses
California. Born 1958
Acrylic portrait painting, mixed-media sculpture, installation art
England. Born 1969
Abstract human body image paintings-death themes
New York, California. Born 1989
Social themed assemblage, metal sculpture, painting
New York. Born 1969
Rorschach sculpture, social commentary
China. Born 1962
Sculpture
New York, California. Born 1943
Conceptual installations, assemblage, African-American genre
Venezuela, France. 1923 - 2005
Op art, installation sculpture
New York, California / England, United Kingdom. Born 1975
Graffiti art with political themes
California. 1935 - 2018
Super flashy nude, pop icon painting, superheroes
Germany, Scotland. Born 1966
Video art repetition studies, photography
Massachusetts, New York / Ghana, Nigeria. Born 1944
Fabric image abstract sculpture and painting, site-specific
New York / Ethiopia. Born 1970
Large-scale abstract gestural painting, architectural themes
New York, California. Born 1969
Silhouette figures, racial themed work
New York / Italy. 1914 - 1999
Droll surreal, caricature, graphics