Sonia Boyce was born to Afro-Caribbean parents, who had come to the UK in the 1950s as part of the Windrush generation, in Islington , London, England in 1962. Considered one of the foremost artists of the Black British Art movement of the 1980s, Boyce's work, across a wide range of media and collaborative experience, examines issues of race, class, and gender, particularly with respect to the development of Black British identity in the later twentieth century. In 2022, as the first Black woman to represent Great Britain at the Venice Biennale, Boyce was awarded the top prize, the Golden Lion for her multi-media installation, 'Feeling Her Way'.

Listen to her story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/sonia-boyce