Lubaina Himid

born 1954

Lubaina Himid, ‘Drowned Orchard: Secret Boatyard’ 2014
Drowned Orchard: Secret Boatyard 2014
© Lubaina Himid
License this image

In Tate Modern

Lubaina Himid

Book tickets
Now booking

In Tate Liverpool

Democracies: Democracies

Free

Biography

Lubaina Himid (born 1954) is a British artist and curator. She is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities.

Himid was one of the first artists involved in the UK's Black Art movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain, as well as worldwide. Himid was appointed MBE in June 2010 "for services to Black Women's Art", won the Turner Prize in 2017 and was promoted to CBE in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to Art."

This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License. Spotted a problem? Let us know.

Read full Wikipedia entry

Artworks

Left Right
See all 74

Film and audio

Features

You might like

Left Right

In the shop

Browse the shop