Lubaina Himid CBE RA (b. 1954, Zanzibar) lives and works in Preston, UK, and is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the winner of the 2017 Turner Prize, the 2023 Maria Lassnig Prize and the 2024 Suzanne Deal Booth | Flag Art Foundation Prize. In 2026, Himid will represent the UK at the Venice Biennale.

Himid has exhibited extensively in the UK and internationally. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Another Chance Encounter with Magda Stawarska, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK. Recent significant solo exhibitions include: Nets for Night and Day, Mudam, Luxembourg; UCCA, Beijing (2025); Barricades, Hollybush Gardens, London; Make Do and Mend, FLAG Art Foundation, New York and The Contemporary Austin, Texas (2024); Plaited Time / Deep Water, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2023). Selected recent group exhibitions include The Time is Always Now, North Carolina Museum of Art, USA (2025); Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA; The Box, Plymouth, National Portrait Gallery, London (2024); Conversations, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2024); Entangled Pasts, 1768-now, Royal Academy, London (2024) A Fine Toothed Comb, HOME, Manchester; Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (both 2023).

Her work is held in various museum and public collections, including Tate, London, UK; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Guggenheim New York, USA; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE; Baltimore Museum of Art, USA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Rennie Collection, Vancouver; Canada; British Council Collection, UK; Arts Council Collection, UK; UK Government Art Collection; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; National Museums Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK; and Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA. In 2019, a monograph, titled Lubaina Himid: Workshop Manual, was published by Koenig Books.

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