--- title: Rihanna Is a Greek Goddess Statue in Art Show description: Real life goddess Rihanna will be merged with Greek goddess Aphrodite as a part of a collage being shown at Cambridge University's museum. canonical: https://time.com/4466448/rihanna-aphrodite-statue-museum/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T17:49:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:52.833Z og:title: What Rihanna Looks Like Morphed With Aphrodite of Knidos og:description: The piece will be shown at a Cambridge University Museum og:url: https://time.com/4466448/rihanna-aphrodite-statue-museum/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltffd7bb6d2b992a5a/6988a3b0cd1bba674070215a/rihanna-cambridge-university-art-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Sziget 2016 - Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What Rihanna Looks Like Morphed With Aphrodite of Knidos twitter:description: The piece will be shown at a Cambridge University Museum twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltffd7bb6d2b992a5a/6988a3b0cd1bba674070215a/rihanna-cambridge-university-art-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Artist Is Morphing Real-Life Goddess Rihanna With Greek Deity Aprhodite > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage) Joseph Okpako—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Aug 25, 2016 5:49 PM UTC It’s a well-established fact that [Rihanna](http://time.com/4345110/rihanna-dab-prince-tribute-billboard-awards/) is an all-around goddess ([not to mention the world’s coolest trekkie](http://time.com/4347726/rihanna-dior-sunglasses-star-trek/)) in real life, but music’s baddest gal will be making a classical art debut this fall with another great beauty, the Aphrodite of Knidos by Greek sculptor Praxiteles at a Cambridge University art exhibit. Thanks to Scottish artist Reilly who merged Ri Ri’s visage with that of the classical Greek goddess in a digital collage, museumgoers will be able to see both the classic and the contemporary come together during the institution’s _Recasting_ exhibit, which examines contemporary artists’ work in dialogue with Greco-Roman art and mythology, and opens in September. This isn’t the first time that the Barbadian singer has been the subject of high art; recently, the singer’s image was recreated in a [larger-than-life sculpture in Berlin for the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, which Rihanna later posed with](http://time.com/4457380/rihanna-statue-germany/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4466448/rihanna-aphrodite-statue-museum/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4466448/rihanna-aphrodite-statue-museum/"},"headline":"This Artist Is Morphing Real-Life Goddess Rihanna With Greek Deity Aprhodite","datePublished":"2016-08-25T17:49:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:52.833Z","description":"The piece will be shown at Cambridge University's Museum of Classical Archaeology","url":"https://time.com/4466448/rihanna-aphrodite-statue-museum/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Art","Rihanna"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltffd7bb6d2b992a5a/6988a3b0cd1bba674070215a/rihanna-cambridge-university-art-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltffd7bb6d2b992a5a/6988a3b0cd1bba674070215a/rihanna-cambridge-university-art-show.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Sziget 2016 - Day 2","caption":"Sziget 2016 - Day 2","creditText":"Joseph Okpako—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4466448/rihanna-aphrodite-statue-museum/","name":"This Artist Is Morphing Real-Life Goddess Rihanna With Greek Deity Aprhodite"}}]}] ```