Title: Modernist Inspirations

Year: 2022

Media: Giclée print on Somerset Satin hand-deckled paper with partial gloss silk screen glaze, Edition of 100 + 20 A.P.

Size: Paper size: 39.5 × 28 cm, image size: 35 × 25 cm

Bio: Yinka Shonibare CBE RA (b. 1962) in London, UK, studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (1989) and received his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (1991).

His interdisciplinary practice uses citations of Western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities within the context of globalization. Through examining race, class and the construction of cultural identity, his works comment on the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe, and their respective economic and political histories.

Shonibare was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004 and was elected as a Royal Academician in 2013. He was awarded the honour of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2019 and received the Art Icon Award from Whitechapel Gallery in 2021. 

In November 2022, Shonibare hosted the international launch of Guest Artists Space

(G. A. S.) Foundation, a non-profit founded and developed by the artist.  The Foundation is dedicated to facilitating cultural exchange through residencies, public programmes and exhibition opportunities for creative practitioners from around the world. The multi-use live/work residency spaces are set across sites in Lagos and a rural working farm in Ijebu, Ogun State.