@shonibarestudio is delighted to announce the landmark solo exhibition ‘Yinka Shonibare CBE: Planets in My Head’ opens tomorrow at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The exhibition celebrates Yinka Shonibare CBE’s multimedia oeuvre, presenting artworks by the artist from the past three decades. Many of these works have never been shown in the United States, among them sculptures, paintings, photographs, collages, embroidery and film. Shonibare, a self-proclaimed "postcolonial hybrid" of British-Nigerian heritage is best known for his playful combination of colourful Dutch wax-fabric patterns popular in West Africa with the fashion of upper-class Victorian culture. As this show reveals, Shonibare thinks globally and uses his artistic imagination to comment on colonialism, art history, environment, education, knowledge, food justice, and other subjects of universal concern. ‘Yinka Shonibare CBE: Planets in My Head’ runs from 1 April – 23 October 2022. To find out more details, please visit meijergardens.org. Image: Yinka Shonibare CBE, ‘Food Man’, 2021, fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, metal, steel, brass, hand painted globe, wood, polyurethane, and acrylic paint, 200 x 97 x 223 cm. Photographer: Stephen White & Co. @meijergardens #YinkashonibareCBE #shonibarestudio