 Artist's arttributes:
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Painting, Photography |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 82 |
| United Kingdom | 38 |
| Germany | 11 |
| Spain | 10 |
| Italy | 10 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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Stephen Friedman Gallery, United Kingdom |
10 |
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James Cohan Gallery - New York, USA |
6 |
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Worcester Art Museum, USA |
4 |
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Norton Museum of Art, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1962 Born in London, England (UK)
Lives and works in London (UK) and in (NG)
External links:www.yinkashonibarembe.com | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 210
from 25.5.
until 25.8.
until 30.6.
until 30.6.
until 16.6.
until 2.6.
Solo shows 39
2013
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| Pop! - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Yinka Shonibare Mbe - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
2012
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| Yinka Shonibare, Mbe - Addio Del Passato - SCAD Museum of Art , Savannah, GA |
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| Imagined as the Truth - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA |
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| Invasion, Escape; Aliens do it right! - Anna Schwartz Gallery - Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Yinka Shonibare, MBE - Addio del Passato - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2011
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| El futuro del pasado - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| Yinka Shonibare Mbe. El Futuro Del Pasado - ALCALÁ 31 - Sala de Exposiciones, Madrid |
2010
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| Yinka Shonibare, MBE - Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Kalamazoo, MI |
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| Looking up... - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco |
2009
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| Yinka Shonibare: Mother and Father Worked Hard So I Can Play - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Yinka Shonibare MBE - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC |
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| Yinka Shonibare, MBE - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Party Time: Re-imagine America - The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
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| Yinka Shonibare MBE - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child and Other Astonishing Works - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Yinka Shonibare MBE - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| Yinka Shonibare, MBE - Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin |
2008
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| Yinka Shonibare, MBE: A Flying Machine for Every Man, Woman and Child - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Yinka Shonibare MBE - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| Yinka Shonibare MBE - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Yinka Shonibare chosen for Forth Plinth - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Yinka Shonibare MBE Prospero's Monsters - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Jardin d’amour - Musee du Quai Branly, Paris |
2006
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| Yinka Shonibare - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Yinka Shonibare Installation - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
2005
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| Yinka Shonibare Selects - Works from the Permanent Collection - Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Yinka Shonibare - Mobility - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Yinka Shonibare - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Yinka Shonibare: Double Dutch - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Yinka Shonibare : Double Dutch - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
2003
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| Yinka Shonibare - Play with me - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Double Dress - Yinka Shonibare - PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan |
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| Yinka Shonibare - Double Dress - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
2002
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| Yinka Shonibare - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Yinka Shonibare - Be-Muse - Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen, Rome |
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| Yinka Shonibare - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
2000
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| Yinka Shonibare - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
1997
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| Yinka Shonibare - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 165
2012
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| Say it Loud! - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| The Progress of Love - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| The Progress of Love - The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination - Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB |
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| Misled by Nature - Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta |
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| Luxe : Mode D'emploi - Passage de Retz, Paris |
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| Arsenale 2012 - ARSENALE - Ukrainian Biennale of Contemporary Art, Kiev |
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| Trade Routes Over Time - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Transit_Salvador - MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador |
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| Moca’s 15th Anniversary Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| The Crisis Commission - Somerset House, London (England) |
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| Environment and Object - Recent African Art - Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT |
2011
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| Cosmopolite - Galerie d´art Ka&Nao, Grenoble |
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| Art + Present: Gifts from the Peter Norton Family - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX |
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| #40 Ideal Home - Chelsea space - Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (England) |
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| Environment and Object - Recent African Art - VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA |
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| A Tribute to Photography - Primo Marella Gallery Milan, Milan |
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| I Know Something About Love - Parasol unit, London (England) |
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| Two Sides of the Modern: Maverix ReMix - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Environment and Object Recent African Art - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| Pattern ID - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
2010
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| Aware: Art Fashion Identity - Royal Academy of Arts, London (England) |
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| The Global Africa Project - Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, NY |
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| Lust und Laster. Die 7 Todsünden von Dürer bis Naumann - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| Going International - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY |
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| Huckleberry Finn - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| New Acquisitions and Highlights - 21c Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Nothing is Forever - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
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| Who knows Tomorrow - Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Who Knows Tomorrow - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Spazio. The Scene and the Imaginary. - MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome |
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| Jumble - Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM |
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| Size does matter - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY |
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| An Economy of Means: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| An Economy of Means: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Pattern ID - Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH |
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| Sur le Dandysme Aujourd´Hui - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| lost at Sea - Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA |
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| What Matters - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
2009
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| What Matters - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Performance/Art - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| World upside down - Musée D´Art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec |
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| British Subjects: Identity & Self-fashioning 1967-2009 - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| Northern Print Biennale - Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne |
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| Su:Mbisori - Jeju Museum of Art , Jeju |
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| FLOWER POWER - Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania |
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| Unbounded: New Art for a New Century - The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ |
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| NÓS - Museu da República, Rio de Janeiro, RJ |
2008
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| Maritime: Ships, Pirates and Disasters Contemporary Art Galleries - Contemporary Art Galleies - UConn School of Fine Arts, Storrs, CT |
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| Out of Shape: Bodies in Contemporary Art - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Irony & Gesture - Kukje Gallery, Seoul |
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| space Now - SPACE, London (England) |
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| Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Body Space - Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, Cumbria (England) |
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| Pictures in Series: Multiple Visions and Sequential Imagery - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Brocken Memory - Ghana National Art Museum, Accra |
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| World Upside Down - Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art - Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Stardust ou la derničre frontičre - Musée d´art contemporain du Val-de-Marne MAC/Val, Vitry-sur-Seine |
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| Alien Nation - Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (England) |
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| When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever - BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (England) |
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| Existencias - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| Summer Show - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Role Exchange - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg |
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| Fashion Accidentally - MOCA Taipei, Taipei |
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| TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction - MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg |
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| TRANS CAPE - contemporary African art on the move - Trans Cape Africa, Cape Town |
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| Alien Nation - Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England) |
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| Uncomfortable Truths-the shadow of slave trading on contemporary art & design - Victoria & Albert Museum - V&A, London (England) |
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| Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Relationships: Contemporary Sculptur - York Art Gallery, York (England) |
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| Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator - Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, IN |
2006
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| Off the Wall: Floor and Ceiling-based works from the Collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Trienal de Luanda 2007 - Trienal de Luanda, Luanda |
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| Alien Nation - Institute of International Visual Arts - iniva, London (England) |
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| Alien Nation - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Les artistes contemporains au Louvre - Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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| Transvideo - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Mascarada - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Africa Remix - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| World Upside Down - The Banff Centre - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB |
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| Dresscode - Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen |
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| Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator - Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Around the World in Eighty Days - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
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| Around the World in Eighty Days - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Globalización: indicaciones/ efectos secundarios/ advertencias - Espacio 1414, Santurce |
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| Looking Now - 21c Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| 2006 Contemporary Commonwealth/NGV - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Figures in the Field - Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago C - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
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| East Wing Collection No 7 Culture Bound - Courtauld Institute of Art, London (England) |
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| Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
2005
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| Zoo Story: An exhibition of animals in art - for the young and the young at heart - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City, NY |
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| Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Take Two - Worlds and Views - Contemporary Art from the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator - Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA |
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| Acting Out - Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| "Translation" - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| African Remix - l'art contemporain d'un continent - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Emergencies - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
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| Counting the Ways: Word As Image - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Black President - The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Continental Drift - Installations - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Continental Drift: Installations by Joan Jonas, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Juan Muńo - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Turner Prize 2004 - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Flexible 4: Identities - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
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| Fashination - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Looking Both Ways - Contemporary African Diaspora - Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
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| Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| XI. Rohkunstbau - Ein europäisches Portrait - Rohkunstbau, Berlin |
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| Artists' Favourites - act I - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Love / Hate. From Magritte to Cattelan. - Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD) |
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| Between The Lines - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Looking Both Ways - Contemporary Artists from Africa - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA |
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| Secrets of the '90s' - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| The Game Show - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Change of Values. Works from the ARCO Foundation Collection - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana |
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| Potential Images Of The World - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Black President - The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Family Ties - International contemporary artists interpret family - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA |
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| The African Exile Museum - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich |
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| Somewhere Better Than This Place - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Independence - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
2002
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| Archivo Pons - Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián |
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| Extension - Works from the Collection - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Documenta 11 - Edition Schellmann, Munich |
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| Documenta 11 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Other Bodies - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| CAMK Grand Opening Commemorative Exhibition Kumamoto - Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto - CAMK, Kumamoto |
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| The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Shortcuts - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Mirror's Edge - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen |
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| 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Contact/Impact - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| The Short Century - Das kurze Jahrhundert der Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Vantage Point - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Mirror’s Edge - Tramway, Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994 - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
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| Secret Victorians - Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
2000
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| Mirror's Edge - Il bordo dello specchio - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 5e Biennale de Lyon - Partage d'exotismes - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Continental Shift - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| Mirror's Edge - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
1999
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| Mirrors Edge - Bildmuseet, Umeĺ |
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| Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Zone. Espéces d'Espace - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
1998
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| Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection - Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
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| Group Show of Gallery Artists - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Global Vision: new art from the 90's (Part I,II,III) - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Transatlántico - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
1997
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| Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection - Royal Academy of Arts, London (England) |
1996
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| Really Out of Order - Abstract art from the 1960s and 1990s - Cornerhouse, Manchester (England) |
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| Painting - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
1995
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| Original - Gasworks, London (England) |
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China
| | James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai
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Italy
| | Benciv Art Gallery, Pesaro
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United Kingdom
| | Blain|Southern, London (England)
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| | Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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Germany
| | Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
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Israel
| | Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya
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| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Spain
| | Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
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Sweden
| | Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
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| | Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
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| | SCAD Museum of Art , Savannah, GA
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| | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC
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| | Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
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