The Art of a Yoruba Trickster

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19th Century Kid (Queen Victoria)

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

NATALIE HOPKINSON: How the Empire Strikes Black

Black Gold I

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

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

Diary of a Victorian Dandy

Chromogenic photographs Edition 3 of 3

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

Double Dutch

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

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Private collection, USA

Globe Children

2 fiberglass mannequins, Dutch wax printed cotton, globe

Private collection, Connecticut

The Victorian Philanthropist’s Parlour

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

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

Scramble for Africa

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

The Pinnell Collection, Dallas

The Age of Enlightenment

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

Collection of Lidia Berlingieri Leopardi and Piervittorio Leopardi Dittajuti, Rome

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The Age of Enlightenment — Adam Smith

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

The Swing (After Fragonard)

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

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Tate, Purchased 2001

Odile and Odette

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

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Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball)

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

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Headless Man Trying to Drink

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

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Collection of Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy, USA

Yinka in Top Hat

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