Lubaina Himid CBE RA
Turner Prize winner 2017
Recent exhibitions
- 2018 We Don’t Need Another Hero, 10th Berlin Biennale
- 2018 Breaking In, Breaking Out, Breaking Up, Breaking Down, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
- 2018 Glasgow International Festival Glasgow
- 2018 Hard Times, Harris Museum & Gallery, Preston
- 2018 Gifts To Kings, MRAC Langeudoc Roussillon Midi-Pyrenees, Serignan, France
- 2017 Tate Turner Prize, Ferens Gallery, Hull
- 2017 The Art of Dissonance, British Council
- 2017 Jelly Mould Pavillion, Folkestone Triennial
- 2017 The Times, Flag Art Foundation, New York, US
- 2017 Meticulous Observations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- 2017 Public View, Bluecoat, Liverpool
- 2016 The 1980s Today’s Beginnings? Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 2016 BLUSH, Hospitalfield, Angus, Scotland
- 2015 The Feast Wagon, Tetley Gallery, Leeds
- 2014 Gwanju Bienniale, Folk Museum, Gwanju, South Korea
- 2013 Keywords – International Institute for Visual Art, London
- 2012 Moments that Matter – Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston
- 2013 Cotton: Global Threads – Kangas From The Lost Sample Book, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- 2012 Migrations Tate Britain, London
- 2011 Thin Black Line(s) Tate Britain
- 2011 Hunter Gatherer Project Space, Leeds
- 2011 Tailor Singer Striker Dandy Manchester Art Gallery , Platt Hall (Costume Museum)
Solo Exhibitions
- 2018 Our Kisses Are Petals, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
- 2018 The Tenderness Only We Can See, Hollybush Gardens, London
- 2018 Hard Times, Harris Museum & Gallery, Preston
- 2018 Gifts To Kings, MRAC Langeudoc Roussillon Midi-Pyrenees, Serignan, France
- 2017 Meticulous Observations, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
- 2017 The Truth Is Never Watertight, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
- 2017 Warp and Weft, Firstsite, Colchester
- 2017 The Place is Here, Nottingham Contemporary
- 2017 Invisible Strategies, Modern Art Gallery, Oxford
- 2017 Navigation Charts, Spike Island, Bristol
- 2013 Hollybush Gardens, London
- 2012 Moments that Matter/ Cultural Olympiad Harris Museum & Art Gallery
- 2011 Tailor Striker Singer Dandy Platt Hall Museum of Costume, Manchester Galleries
- 2010 Jelly Mould Pavilions, Sudley House, Liverpool and Liverpool Museums
- 2008 Kangas and Other Stories, Peg Alston Gallery, New York
- 2007 Talking On Corners Speaking In Tongue, Harris Museum &Art Gallery, Preston
- 2007 Swallow Hard The Lancaster Dinner Service, Judges Lodgings, Lancaster
- 2006 Swallow, Judges Lodgings, Lancaster
- 2004 Naming The Money, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
- 2002 Fabrications C.U.B.E, Manchester
- 2001 Double Life, Bolton Museum & Art Gallery
- 2001 Inside the Invisible, St. Jargons Museum, Bergen Norway 1999 Plan B, Tate St Ives
- 1999 Zanzibar, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno,Wales
- 1997 Venetian Maps, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston.
- 1996 Portraits & Heroes, Peg Alston Gallery, New York.
- 1995 Beach House, Wrexham Arts Centre & Tour
- 1994 Vernets Studio, 5th Havana Biennial, Cuba
- 1994 Vernets Studio, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
- 1993 African Gardens, Black Art Gallery, London.
- 1992 Revenge, Rochdale Art Gallery + South Bank Centre, London
- 1989 The Ballad of the Wing, Chisenhale Gallery, London
- 1987 New Robes for MaShulan, Rochdale Art, Gallery
- 1986 A Fashionable Marriage, Pentonville Gallery, London.
Group Exhibitions
- 2020 Risquons-Tout with Magda Stawarska-Beavan, WEILS, Brussels
- 2018 We Don’t Need Another Hero, 10th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
- 2018 Glasgow International Festival Glasgow
- 2017 Tate Turner Prize, Feren’s Gallery, Hull
- 2017 Jelly Mould Pavillion, Folkestone Triennial
- 2017 Public View, Bluecoat, Liverpool
- 2016 The 1980s Today’s Beginnings? Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- 2016 BLUSH, Hospitalfield, Angus, Scotland
- 2015 The Feast Wagon, Tetley Gallery, Leeds
- 2014 Gwanju Bienniale, Folk Museum, Gwanju, South Korea
- 2013 Keywords, Iniva London
- 2012 Cotton Global Threads, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
- 2011/12 Thin Black Line(s, Tate Britain, London
- 2011 Hunter Gatherers, Project Space, Leeds
- 2011 Northern Art Prize – Jelly Pavilions, Leeds Art Gallery
- 2009 Myth + History, The Bristol Gallery
- 2007 Uncomfortable Truths Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- 2006 Migratory Aesthetics, Leeds University, Yorkshire
- 2004/5 Distance No Object, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
- 2002 Fabrications, C.U.B.E. Manchester
- 2002 Games People Play, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
- 2001 Nothing But Facts, Lavatoio Contumaciale, Rome
- 2001 Representing Britain, Tate Britain, London
- 1999 1980s Figurative Painting, Birmingham City Art Gallery
- 1998 Memory Walking, City Art Gallery, Wellington NZ
- 1997-98 Transforming the Crown, Studio Museum, New York
- 1997-99 Crossings, Track 17 & USA Tour, Los Angeles
- 1997 M.A.G. Collection, Ferens Gallery, Hull & Touring
- 1997 Representing Women, Nottingham Trent University
- 1997 Hogarth on Hogarth, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
- 1995 Word Not Found, Trier, Germany
- 1995 Photogenetic, Streetlevel Gallery, Glasgow & Tour
- 1994 Group Show, Corr Contemporary Art, London
- 1994 Memories of Childhood, Steinbaum Kraus Gallery, New York.
- 1994 Seen/Unseen Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool.
- 1994 Vernet’s Studio 5th Havana Biennale, Cuba
- 1993 Greetings, Steinbaum Kraus Gallery, New York
- 1992 Columbus Drowning Rochdale Art Gallery
- 1992 Women’s Art At New Hall New Hall College, Cambridge.
- 1991 Treatise on The Sublime University of California, USA
- 1990 The Transformation of the Object Grazer Kunstverein & Vienna Fine Art Academy
- 1990-91 Heritage, Impressions Gallery York & British Tour
- 1989-90 The Other Story, Hayward Gallery, London & British Tour
- 1988-89 Along The Lines of Resistance, Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley & British Tour
- 1988 Passion, The Elbow Room, London
- 1988 Blackwomansong, Sisterwrite Gallery, London
- 1988 Gold Blooded Warrior, Tom Allen Centre, London.
- 1988 Depicting History For Today, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield & British Tour
- 1987 Palaces of Culture, Stoke Art Gallery & British Tour.
- 1987 The State of the Art, I.C.A London.
- 1986 FromTwo Worlds, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- 1985 The Thin Black Line, I.C.A. London
- 1984 Heroes and HeroineS, Black Art Gallery, London
- 1984 Into The Open, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
- 1983 Black Woman Time Now, Battersea Arts Centre, London
- 1983 Five Black Women, Africa Centre, London.
Collections – Works are held in several public and private collections:
- Magic Carpet Fly – Tate Britain, London
- Between the Two my Heart is Balanced – Tate Britain, London
- Ankledeep – Tate Britain, London
- Toussaint l’Ouverture – Arts Council Collection
- Fashionable Marriage Paperworks – Victoria & Albert Museum London
- Plan B – Birmingham City Art Gallery
- My Parents Their Children – Birmingham City Art Gallery
- Hannibal’s Sister – Harris Museum & Art Gallery
- Spinster Salt’s Collection – New Hall College, Cambridge
- Venetian Maps – Rochdale Art Gallery
- Naming The Money – International Slavery Museum Liverpool
- We Will Be – Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
Selected Curatorial work includes –
- Director Elbow Room 1986 –
- 1990 Claudette Johnson – Rochdale Art Gallery
- 1989 Critical, Donald Rodney – Rochdale Art Gallery
- 1986 Unrecorded Truths – Elbow Room London
- 1985 The Thin Black Line – I.C.A. London
- 1984 Into The Open – Mappin Gallery Sheffield
- 1984 Black Woman Time Now – Battersea Arts Centre
- 1983 Five Black Women – Africa Centre London
Board/Panel Membership
- Director –Project Space Leeds
- 2013 – Trustee – Lowry Arts Centre Manchester
- 2009- 2011 Arts Council England Visual Arts
- 2005 Creative Partnerships East Lancs
- 2004 Arts Council England North West
- 2002-2005 Matts Gallery London
- 2000-2005 Tate Liverpool Council
- 2005- Arts Council Visual Arts Panel
- 2004 – Fellow – Royal Society for the Arts
- 1985-87 Greater London Arts Association, Visual Arts Panel Society memberships