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

In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: Sixty years

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Biography

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

She 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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Artworks

Lubaina Himid, ‘Between the Two my Heart is Balanced’ 1991

Lubaina Himid Between the Two my Heart is Balanced

1991
On display at Tate St Ives part of Modern Art and St Ives T06947
Lubaina Himid, ‘The Carrot Piece’ 1985

Lubaina Himid The Carrot Piece

1985
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art T14192
Lubaina Himid, ‘Ankledeep’ 1991

Lubaina Himid Ankledeep

1991
T12885
Lubaina Himid, ‘Carpet’ 1992

Lubaina Himid Carpet

1992
T12886

Film and audio
TateShots

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

The British artist explores ideas around black British representation and identity

Outset and Tate present: Lubaina Himid
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Outset and Tate present: Lubaina Himid

Artist Lubaina Himid on her work The Carrot Piece – 1985

Features

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

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

Diaspora

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

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

Jean Fisher

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

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