Lubaina Himid talks to Hettie Judah in the New York Times about winning the Turner Prize and encouraging institutions to
value other black artists.
Not exact matches
Based on the findings of artnet News, the auction market
value of his work surpasses that of any
other living
black artist.
So if you were
black and drew upon your experience within an oppressive dominant culture, to make an existential statement to enrich the lives of
others of any race, your experience was not
valued and you were marginalized as an «African American»
artist, the same way women were marginalized.
Realizing this limited
value,
artists such as Ewa Partum and Sanja Iveković have embodied this flatness in order to explode space, while
others like Sondra Perry and Hank Willis Thomas have drawn attention to the history of the advertisement industry's adaptation of
black bodies.