Lubaina Himid is a professor of contemporary art at the University of Central Lancashire.
11 Facts About Lubaina Himid
1.
2.
Lubaina Himid's art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities.
3.
Lubaina Himid was born in Zanzibar Sultanate in 1954 and moved to Britain with her mother, a textile designer, following the death of her father when she was just four months old.
4.
Lubaina Himid received her master's degree in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art in London in 1984.
5.
Lubaina Himid has organized several exhibitions of work by black women artists, including Black Woman Time Now at the Battersea Arts Centre in London and Five Black Women, an exhibition in 1983 at the Africa Centre, London.
6.
Lubaina Himid considers that critical views changed after her work was shown by the Hollybush Gardens gallery in London 2013.
7.
Lubaina Himid is on the board of trustees for the Lowry Arts Centre Manchester.
8.
From 1985 until 1987 Lubaina Himid was on the Greater London Arts Association Visual Arts Panel.
9.
Lubaina Himid was appointed MBE in the June 2010 Birthday Honours "for services to Black Women's Art".
10.
In 2017 Lubaina Himid became the first black woman to win the Turner Prize.
11.
Lubaina Himid was the oldest person to be nominated for the prize since the rules changed to allow nominations of artists over the age of 50.