Sonia Boyce – The Disorderly

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Following Feeling Her Way at the British Pavilion, the Golden Lion winner for best national participation at the 59th Venice Biennale, Sonia Boyce OBE RA presents The Disorderly, a new solo exhibition at the gallery. The show consists of two video installations brought together with printed wallpapers and a new body of digital photographs.

Sonia Boyce OBE RA was born in London, UK, in 1962, where she continues to live and work. In 2019, the artist received an OBE for services to art in the Queen’s New Year Honours List, as well as an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal College of Art. In 2016, Boyce was elected a Royal Academician, and received a Paul Hamlyn Artist Award. Between 2012 and 2017, Boyce was Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University, and since 2014 she has been Professor at the University of the Arts London as the inaugural Chair of Black Art & Design, where she directed a three-year research project into Black Artists & Modernism, which resulted in a BBC documentary: Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? Britain’s Hidden Art History (2018). 

Recent solo exhibitions include: Feeling Her Way, British Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia 2022 - winner of the Golden Lion for Best National Participation (2022); In the Castle of My Skin, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (2020) and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, UK (2021); Sonia Boyce, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2018); Sonia Boyce – We move in her way, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (2017); and, Paper Tiger Whisky Soap Theatre (Dada Nice), Villa Arson, Nice, France (2016).