Lubaina Himid

born 1954

Lubaina Himid, ‘Between the Two my Heart is Balanced’ 1991
Between the Two my Heart is Balanced 1991
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Modern Art and St Ives: New directions after 1960

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", and won the Turner Prize in 2017.

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    How Himid is rewriting history

    Find out about this Turner Prize winning artist through three of her artworks

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    Interview

    Getting to know Lubaina Himid

    Discover more about the artist's work, inspirations and advice for younger artists

  • Jo Spence, ‘The Highest Product of Capitalism (after John Heartfield)’ 1979

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    Women and Power: A walk through Tate Britain

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  • Donald Rodney, ‘In the House of My Father’ 1996–7

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  • Donald Rodney, ‘How the West was Won’ 1982

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    The Blk Art Group

    Formed in Wolverhampton, England, in 1979, The Blk Art Group was an association of young black artists who, inspired by ...

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    British black arts movement

    The British black arts movement was a radical political art movement founded in 1982 inspired by anti-racist discourse and feminist ...

  • Claude Cahun, ‘I Extend My Arms’ 1931 or 1932

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    Lubaina Himid and Peter C van Wyck

    New reflections on two works in the Tate collection

  • Eddie Chambers Destruction of the National Front 1979–80

    Tate Papers

    The Other Story and the Past Imperfect

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    The Other Story, 1989, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean and Asian modernism, was received with derision and ...

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