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CURRICULUM VITAE: Lubaina Himid
Qualifications: 1973-76 B.A. in Theatre Design, Wimbledon School of
Art, London
1982-84 M.A. Cultural History,
Royal College of Art
London.
Current Post: 2001 - Professor in Contemporary Art
1998-2001 - Reader in Contemporary Art
1990-98 - Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at University of Central Lancashire

Previous appointments:

1988-90 Assistant Exhibitions Officer Rochdale Art Gallery
 
Solo exhibitions:

1986 A Fashionable Marriage, Pentonville Gallery, London.
1987 New Robes for MaShulan Rochdale Art Gallery
1989 The Ballad of the Wing, Chisenhale Gallery, London & British Tour
1992 Revenge, Rochdale Art Gallery
1993 African Gardens Black Art Gallery, London
1994 Vernets Studio, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1994 Vernets Studio, 5th Havana Bienniale Cuba
1995 Beach House Wrexham Arts Centre & tour
1996 Portraits & Heroes, Peg Alston Gallery, New York
1997 Venetian Maps,. Harris Museum, Art Gallery, Preston.
1999 Zanzibar, Oriel Mostyn Llandudno
1999 Plan B, Tate Gallery, St. Ives
2000 Inside the Invisible, St. Jorgens Museum, Bergen, Norway.
2001 Double Life, Bolton Museum & Art Gallery.
   
Selected Group Exhibitions include:
1983 Five Black Women Africa Centre, London.
1983 Black Woman Time Now, Battersea Arts Centre, London.
1984 Into the Open, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.
1984 Heroes & Heroines, Black-Art Gallery, London.
1985 The Thin Black Line, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1986 From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1987 The State of the Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
British Tour
1987 Palaces of Culture, Stoke Art Gallery
1987 British Tour
1988 Depicting History for Today Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1988 British Tour
1988 Gold Blooded Warrior, Tom Allen Centre, London
1988 Blackwomansong Sisterwrite Gallery, London.
1988 Passion, The Elbow Room, London
1988 British Tour
1988/9 Along the Lines of Resistance Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley
1988/9 British Tour
1989/90 The Other Story, Hayward Gallery, London
1989/90 British Tour
1990 Heritage, Impressions Gallery, York
1991 British Tour
1990 The Transformation of the Object Grazer Kunstverein & Vienna Fine Art Academy
1991 Treatise on the Sublime University of Califonia, USA
1992 Womens Art at New Hall, New Hall College, Cambridge.
1992 Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Art Gallery.
1993 Greetings, Steinbaum Kraus Gallery, New York
1994 Vernets Studio, 5th Havana Biennale, Cuba
1994 Seen/Unseen, Bluecoat Gallery. Liverpool
1994 Memories of Childhood, Steinbaum Kraus Gallery, New York.
1994 Group Show Corr Contemporary Art, London
1995 Photogenetic Streetlevel Gallery Glasgow & UK tour
1995 Word not Found, Trier, Germany.
1995 Picturing Blackness, Tate Gallery London
1997 Hogarth on Hogarth, Victoria & Albert Museum
1997 Representing Women, Nottingham Trent University, Bonnington Gallery
1997 M.A.G. Collection, Ferens Gallery Hull & Touring
1997-99 Crossings, Track 17 & USA Tour, Los Angeles
1997-98 Transforming the Crown, Studio Museum, New York
1998 Memory Walk, City Art Gallery, Wellington, N.Z.
1999 1980s Figurative Painting, Birmingham City, Art Gallery.
2000 Representing Painting British Art 1500-2000 Tate Britain, London.
2001 Nothing but the Facts – Lavatio Concumale - Rome
   
Commissions: 1987 Depicting History for Today Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1987 Palace of Culture, Stoke City Art Gallery
1987 New Robes for MaShulan Rochdale Art Gallery.
1990 Souvenir, 1990 for Heritage Impressions Gallery, York
1992 Revenge, Rochdale Art, Gallery
1992 Columbus Drowning, Rochdale Art Gallery.
1995 Photogenetic - Streetlevel, Glasgow
   
Collections: Works are held in public & private collections, 'Toussaint l'Ouverture is in the collection of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Fashionable Marriage is in the collection at the V &A.
'Between the Two' is in the collection of the
Tate Gallery, London.
   
Public Art: Roundhouse Mural 1986 London
Heathcotes Mural 1995 Preston
   
Selected Bibliography: Framing Feminism
Edited by Roszika Parker and Griselda Pollock
Pandora Press 1987
ISBN 0-86358-179X

Looking On
Rosemary Betterton
Pandora Press 1987
ISBN 086358-177-3

The Other Story
Rasheed Araeen
Hayward Gallery
The South Bank Centre 1989
ISBN 1 85332 051X

Women Art and Society
Whitney Chadwick
Thames and Hudson 1990
ISBN 0-500-20241-9

Passion
Edited by Maud Sulter
Urban Fox Press 1990
ISBN 1-872124-30-5

Transformation of the Object
Durch volumes 8/9 1990
ISSN 1010-8378

Third Text No 18
Spring 1992
Kala Press
ISSN 0952-8822

Painting Women
Deborah Cherry
Routledge 1993
ISBN 0-415-06053-2

Arte. Sociedad. Reflexion
Quita Bienal De La Habana
Atlantica May 1994

The Point of Theory
Edited by Mieke Bal and Inge E Boer
Continuum N.,Y. 1994
ISBN 0-8284-08572

British Cultural Studies
Edited by Houston A Baker Jr
Manthia Diawarda and Ruth H Lindeborg
University of Chicago Press 1996
ISBN 0-226-14482-8

Intimate Distance
Rosemary Betterton
Routledge 1996
ISB 0-415-11085-8

Generations and Geographies
Edited by Griselda Pollock
Routledge 1996
ISBN 0-415-14127-3 (hbk)
0-415-14128-1 (pbk)

Projektionen
Edited by Jonas Verlag
Kunstt und Literatur Gmh 1997
ISBN 3-89445-217X

Transforming the Crown
Edited by Mora J Beauchamp-Bryd
and M. Franklin Sirmans
Palace Press 1997
ISBN 09654082-0-5

Differencing the Canon
Griselda Pollock
Routledge 1999
ISBN 0-415-06699-9(hbk)
0-415-06700-6(pbk)

Cultural Values Vol3 No.1 Publisher Blackwell 1999 - ISSN 1362-5179

With Maud Sulter she edited and contributed to 'Passion:Blackwomen's Creativity of the African Diaspora', Feminist Art News, 2:8(1988); and she is co-editor of and contributor to 'Women. Modernism, Modernity, Feminist Arts News, 3:4 (1990).
Nigel Whiteley

The Other Hogarth
Aesthetics of Difference
Edited by Bernadette Fort and Angela Rosenthal
Princeton University Press 2001
ISBN 0-691-01013-7

Differential Aesthetics
Edited by penny Florence and Nicola Foster
Ashgate 2000
ISBN 0-7546-1493-X

Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture
Edited by Alison Donnell et al
Routledge 2002
ISBN-0-415-16989-5

Looking back to the future
Griselda Pollock
GB Arts International 2001
ISBN 90-5701-132-8

   
Selected curatorial work includes work as Director Elbow Room 1986 - 1990:
1983 Five Black Women at the African
1984 Black Women Time Now, Battersea Arts Centre.
1984 Into the Open, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield.
1985 The Thin Black Line, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
1986 Unrecorded Truths Elbow Room, London.
1989 Critical, Donald Rodney, Rochdale Art Gallery.
1990 Claudette Johnson, Rochdale Art Gallery.
   
Panel Membership: 1983-86 Greater London Arts Association
1985-87 Arts Council of Great Britain
2000 Council Tate Gallery, Liverpool
   
External Examiners: 1997-99 Leeds Metropolitan University
BA Fine Art

1999-01 University of Leeds
MA Feminism & Visual Culture