Lubaina Himid Reading List
Lubaina Himid is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. During the past 20 years she has exhibited widely both in Britain and internationally with solo shows that include Tate St Ives, Transmission Glasgow, Chisenhale London, Peg Alston New York and St Jorgens Museum in Bergen.
She represented Britain at the 5th Havana Biennale has shown work at the Studio Museum in New York, Track 17 in Los Angeles, the Fine Art Academy in Vienna and the Grazer Kunstverein. She has work in several public collections including the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Arts Council England, Birmingham City Art Gallery, Bolton Art Gallery, New Hall Cambridge and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery.
Recent exhibitions include :
Talking On Corners Speaking In Tongues - Harris Museum 2007, which included new work in the Kanga series.
Swallow Hard : The Lancaster Dinner Service - 100 overpainted plates, tureens and jugs shown at the Judges Lodgings in Lancaster 2007.
Uncomfortable Truths Victoria and Albert Museum 2007 - several cut out figures from Naming The Money
Naming The Money - 100 painted life sized wooden cut out figures, shown at the Hatton Gallery Newcastle 2004 explored the multiple themes of naming, belonging, invisibility and survival.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Kangas and Other Stories Peg Alston Gallery New York
2007 Talking On Corners Speaking In Tongues Harris Museum &Art Gallery Preston
2007 Swallow Hard Judges Lodgings Lancaster
2006 Swallow Judges Lodgings Lancaster
2004 Naming The Money Hatton Gallery Newcastle.
2001 Double Life Bolton Museum & Art Gallery.
2001 Inside The Invisible St. Jorgens Museum Bergen Norway
1999 Plan B Tate St Ives.
1999 Zanzibar Oriel Mostyn Llandudno.
1997 Venetian Maps Harris Museum & Art GalleryPreston.
1996 Portraits & Heroes Peg Alston Gallery, New York.
1995 Beach House Wrexham Arts Centre & Tour
1994 Vernets Studio 5th Havana Bienniale 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
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 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:
Between The Two TateBritain London
Toussaint l’Ouverture Arts Council Collection
Fashionable Marriage Victoria & Albert Museum London
Plan B Birmingham City Art Gallery
Hannibal’s Sister Harris Museum & Art Gallery
Spinster Salt’s Collection New Hall College Cambridge
Selected Curatorial work includes work as Director Elbow Room 1986 – 1990
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
2005 - Arts Council England Visual Arts
2005 - Creative Partnerships East Lancs
2004 - Arts Council England North West
2002- 2005 Matts Gallery London
2000 2005 TateLiverpool Council
1985-87 Arts Council Visual Arts Panel
Greater London Arts Association. Visual Arts Panel
Society memberships
2004 - Fellow - Royal Society for the Arts.
