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Lubaina Himid CBE RA 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 is a pioneer Black British Art who will represent Britain at the 2026 Venice Art Biennale.
Born in Zanzibar in 1954, Himid came to the U.K. with her mother, a textile designer, that same year. She studied theatre design at Wimbledon College of Art in the seventies and graduated with an MA in cultural history from the Royal College of Art in 1984. Himid was a key contributor to the British Black Art movement of the 1980s, when young artists worked collectively to highlight issues of race, gender, and the ongoing impacts of coloniality, often exhibiting outside of mainstream institutions due in part due to their intent - but in the main due to the necessity - as there was not space made for their voices.
The collection holds these two works both excellent examples of her graphic figuration combined with optical pattern and political intent.
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