Artist Claudette Johnson has a major solo exhibition open at Modern Art Oxford “I Came To Dance” see https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/claudette-johnson/ “Intimate, powerful and sometimes deliberately uncomfortable, Claudette Johnson’s studies of black men and women demand attention and command respect. This show is an overview of one of the most accomplished figurative artists working in Britain today, […]
A large scale exhibition of the work of Preston-based 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid MBE opens at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery in Preston on 1st March 2018. Although she has previously exhibited there, the works being shown have not previously been seen at the Harris. They include the large scale A Fashionable […]
The National Gallery of Jamaica in partnership with the British Council will be hosting an art exhibition from September 22-November 4, 2017. The show is entitled: We Have Met Before and features Graham Fagen, Joscelyn Gardner, Ingrid Pollard, and Leasho Johnson. This exhibition revisits the challenging subject of trans-atlantic slavery and its afterlives in the […]
Badischer Kunstverein is delighted to present the first survey exhibition by British artist Lubaina Himid in Germany. As an artist, writer, and professor, Himid has dedicated her work to the discourse on migration, race, slavery and the representation of the black body in art, overthrowing Western stereotypes and classifications. Lubaina Himid played an active role […]
04 Feb 2017-30 April 2017 The Place Is Here brings together around 100 works by over 30 artists and collectives spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and archival displays from the 1980s, exploring this pivotal decade for British culture and politics. Nottingham Contemporary http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/1/future
The Feast Wagon looks at identity and nationhood against a backdrop of today’s globalised contemporary art scene, with its international biennales and large-scale touring exhibitions such as the British Art Show. The exhibition includes new work created for The Tetley by Lubaina Himid and Susan Walsh, Simeon Barclay, Delaine Le Bas, in response to […]