Lubaina is one of four artists nominated for the Turner Prize 2017. The other nominees are Hurvin Anderson, Andrea Buttner and Rosalind Nashashibi. For the last five years, the Turner Prize has been staged outside of London every other year
Outset Fund and Tate buys Lubaina Himid’s Carrot Piece for the Tate Collection www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/tate-acquires-100th-artwork-frieze
A dynamic exhibition and lecture programme looking at how changes in the meaning of words reflect the cultural shifts in society. Keywords is presented in partnership with Tate Liverpool and is based on Raymond Williams’ seminal text – Keywords: a vocabulary of culture
April March 2012 Thin Black Line(s) – Prof Lubaina Himid MBE and Paul Goodwin In the early 1980s three exhibitions in London curated by Lubaina Himid Five Black Women at the Africa Centre (1983), Black Women Time Now at Battersea Arts Centre (1983-4) and
Tuesday 28th February 2012 Conway Hall Speakers included Lubaina Himid, Sutapa Biswas, Ella Spencer Mills, Claudette Johnson and Ingrid Pollard. Invited Guests included Griselda Pollock, Alan Rice, Celeste Bernier, Chantal Oakes, Marlene Smith, Geoff Quilley, For more details go to
31 January – 12 August 2012 Migrations is a new exhibition that explores British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish and
Tate Britain have acquired two more paintings by Lubaina Himid for their collection. The paintings – Ankle Deep (1991) and Carpet (1992) will join Between The Two My Heart Is Balanced (1991) in the Tate collection. All three paintings were part of the exhibition