The Art of a Yoruba Trickster

Fiberglass figure, Dutch wax printed cotton, wooden tableNational Museum of African Art, Museum Purchase with funds given in memory of Philip L. Ravenhill, the Silvia H. Williams Memorial Fund for Acquisitions, Frieda B. Rosenthal, Barbara Croissant and Mark E. Baker Suggested Reading Chicago Black Man’s Face is Forever Changed After Being Tased By Police, But…

Fiberglass figure, Dutch wax printed cotton, wooden table

National Museum of African Art, Museum Purchase with funds given in memory of Philip L. Ravenhill, the Silvia H. Williams Memorial Fund for Acquisitions, Frieda B. Rosenthal, Barbara Croissant and Mark E. Baker

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NATALIE HOPKINSON: How the Empire Strikes Black

Acrylic paint on wall, acrylic on 25 Dutch wax printed cotton canvases

National Museum of African Art, Museum Purchase, 2008-2-1

Chromogenic photographs Edition 3 of 3

Collections of Peter Norton and Eileen Harris Norton, Santa Monica, California

Acrylic paint on wall, emulsion, and acrylic on 50 Dutch wax printed cotton canvases

Private collection, USA

2 fiberglass mannequins, Dutch wax printed cotton, globe

Private collection, Connecticut

Reproduction furniture, fire screen, carpet, props, stanchions, Dutch wax printed cotton

Collections of Peter Norton and Eileen Harris Norton, Santa Monica, California

14 life-size fiberglass mannequins, 14 chairs, table, Dutch wax printed cotton

The Pinnell Collection, Dallas

Life-size fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, mixed media

Collection of Lidia Berlingieri Leopardi and Piervittorio Leopardi Dittajuti, Rome

Life-size fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, mixed media

Life-size fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, swing, artificial foliage

Tate, Purchased 2001

High-definition digital video (color, sound, 14 min. 28 sec.)

Edition 1 of 6

Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, and James Cohan Gallery, New York

High-definition digital video (color, sound, 32 min.)

Edition 1 of 6

Courtesy of the artist, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, and James Cohan Gallery, New York

Fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, polymer-gypsum fountain, water pump

Collection of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, USA

11 black-and-white photographs, 1 chromogenic photograph

Edition 4 of 5

Collection of Emily Fisher Landau, New York

YINKA SHONIBARE: A Mid-Career Retrospective at the Smithsonian Museum

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