A Fashionable Marriage: Castrato/Krytyk

Lubaina Himid (1954 - )

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2022

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: United Arab Emirates
    City: Abu Dhabi
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Born in Zanzibar in 1954, Lubaina Himid moved to the UK as a child, where she studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art and Cultural History at the Royal College of Art. For over 40 years, she has actively encouraged the promotion and support of the Black Arts Movement, particularly work by women. In the 1980s and ‘90s, she curated a number of important group exhibitions including ‘The Thin Black Line' (ICA, 1985) and 'Unrecorded Truths' (Elbow Room, 1986). Himid currently lives and works in Preston and is Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the winner of the 2017 Turner Prize. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Spotlights’, Tate Britain (2019); ‘The Grab Test’, Frans Hals Museum (2019); and ‘Work from Underneath’, New Museum (2019). In 2021 Himid presented a major monographic exhibition at Tate Modern, London.
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    Artist
    Lubaina Himid (1954 - )
    Title
    A Fashionable Marriage: Castrato/Krytyk
    Date
    2022
    Medium
    Screenprint
    Dimensions
    height: 75.9cm; width: 102.3cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Cristea Roberts Gallery, August 2023
    Provenance
    Cristea Roberts Gallery, London UK; from whom purchased by UK Government Art Collection, 14 August 2023
    GAC number
    19202