Lubaina Himid CBE RA
born 1954
© Lubaina Himid, courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London
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© Lubaina Himid, courtesy the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London
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Biography
Lubaina Himid (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 promoted to CBE in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours "for services to Art."
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