Professor Lubaina Himid

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Lubaina Himid defines her project: the creation of myths, the questioning of history and the invention of new narratives. These are necessary strategies of re- vision to make possible an answer to the question: how can black people salvage a future from the devastation of their past? At one level the work has consistently staged, in a series of individual works, installations and exhibitions, the problems of loss, mourning absence. Yet, by figuring them through interventions in a reworked concept of ‘history painting’, artistic practice becomes strategic, indexing representation both to its own cultural histories and to the historical field which has conditioned and determined cultural representation.

Griselda Pollock Differencing the Canon Routledge 1999

• Lubaina Himid M.A. R.C.A. is Professor of Contemporary Art.
• Her recent exhibitions include
• Vernets Studio Transmission Glasgow /5th Havana Bienalle 1994
• Hogarth on Hogarth Victoria & Albert Museum 1998
• Plan B Tate Gallery St Ives 1999/2000
• Zanzibar Oriel Mostyn Llandudno 1999
• Inside the Invisible St Jorgens Museum Bergen 2001
• Fabrications CUBE Manchester 2002