Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Nigeria at the age of three.
He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art 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.
Shonibare explores colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. His work also explores race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance.
Shonibare examines identity and the interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories. Mixing Western art history and literature, he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today. Having described himself as a ‘post-colonial’ hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions.
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