Lubaina Himid

born 1954

In Tate Modern

Modern Conversations: Making Stories: Alfred Wallis

In Tate Liverpool

Lubaina Himid CBE (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 made a CBE in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to art."

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Artworks

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Lubaina Himid Man in A Shirt Drawer

2017–18
Lubaina Himid Between the Two my Heart is Balanced

1991

On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Conversations
Lubaina Himid Carpet

1992
Lubaina Himid The Carrot Piece

1985

On display at Tate Liverpool part of Democracies
Lubaina Himid Freedom and Change

1984
Lubaina Himid Drowned Orchard: Secret Boatyard

2014
Lubaina Himid Ankledeep

1991

Film and audio

Interview

Lubaina Himid in Conversation

Watch Lubaina Himid in conversation with Tate Director Maria Balshaw
Podcast

The Art of Failure

What does it mean to fail, and how can it lead to success? We hear the human stories behind art …
Podcast

The Art of Belonging

What does it mean to belong? Artists, writers and poets explore the human stories behind art and belonging
TateShots

Lubaina Himid: ‘I’m a painter and a cultural activist’

The British artist explores ideas around black British representation and identity

Features

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List

How Himid is rewriting history

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

Getting to know Lubaina Himid

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

Women and Power: A walk through Tate Britain

Explore stories of women’s empowerment across the centuries through works in our collection
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Art Term

Diaspora

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Art Term

The Blk Art Group

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

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 …
Tate Etc

MicroTate 36

Lubaina Himid and Peter C van Wyck

New reflections on two works by Bridget Riley and Claude Cahun
Tate Papers

The Other Story and the Past Imperfect

Jean Fisher

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