Lubaina Himid

Lubaina Himid has spent five decades making art to subvert the logic of the monument, granting the dignity of depiction to those otherwise elided from the historical record. A vanguard of the Black Arts Movement in the 1980s, Himid is among Britain’s most celebrated artists and its 2026 representative to the Venice Biennale. Low Key Shrines presents a new body of work that examines the act of commemoration, reinventing the public landmarks and domestic altars we erect to honor the dead.