Yinka Shonibare MBE MCA (Sydney) exhibition

Solo show at Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, National Museum of African Art Smithsonian Institution. 2008 - 2009
Date: 24 September, 2008 until 1 February, 2009
Curator: Rachel Kent
Organiser: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Major exhibition of work by Yinka Shonibare, accompanied by a substantial monograph. The exhibition was originated by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. It then toured to Brooklyn Museum, New York, 26 June - 20 September 2009, and National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washinbgton DC, 11 November - 7 March 2010.

The exhibition garnered a significant amount of press coverage, in addition to the ongoing and substantial attention Shonibare received from critics, art historians and others. Related press included an interview with Shonibare, accompanied by large reproductions of the artist’s work, plus a portrait of the artist himself, in the magazine, Modern Carpets & Textiles for Interiors, London, Summer 2009.

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