A number of
artists have also been acknowledged, notably Dineo Seshe Bopape recipient of both the 2017 Sharjah Biennial Prize and Future Generation Art Prize, the Special Prize going to Phoebe Boswell; Otobong Nkanga with the BelgianArtPrize 2017; and
Lubaina Himid, Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire and founder of the Making Histories Visible project, being
nominated for the Turner Prize.