Lubaina Himid was born in Zanzibar (modern-day Tanzania) in 1954; following the death of her father, she immigrated to the UK at the age of four months with her mother, a textile designer. She studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Art, followed by an MA in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, London, and curated the seminal exhibition, 'The Thin Black Line', at the ICA in 1985. Over the last 30 years she has exhibited widely, both in Britain and Internationally; she is the 2017 winner of the Turner Prize, Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire and was elected RA in December 2018.

Listen to his story here or read the full biography on the BURU: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/lubaina-himid