A Tale of Today: Yinka Shonibare MBE
On view through September 29, 2019
The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
Chicago, Illinois
driehausmuseum.org/
The inaugural exhibition in the Driehaus Museum’s new contemporary art series focuses on Yinka Shonibare MBE, an artist who draws on history, politics, and fashion to explore and critique our understanding of the past. This will be Shonibare’s first museum exhibition in Chicago and features his earlier work from photography series to sculpture installations. All of the British Nigerian artist’s work reflects the intersection of his English and African heritage. In the artist’s own words, his practice is “About raising questions rather than answering them,” and is informed equally by the history of the nations he calls home.
Credits:
Yinka Shonibare MBE (British/Nigerian, b. 1962)
Diary of a Victorian Dandy: 19.00 hours, 1998.
Series of five chromogenic photographs. 48 x 72 inches.
From the Collection of Amy and John Phelan.
Image © Yinka Shonibare MBE, courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York.
