Hurvin Anderson

Known for: painting of swimming pools as sites of social history

Hurvin Anderson paints swimming pools — public baths and private pools in Britain and the Caribbean — as sites of memory, segregation, and the relationship between the body and public and private space. His pools are depicted when empty of people, allowing the architecture, light, and water to carry the social history the paintings address. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2017. He grew up in Birmingham, the son of Jamaican parents, and studied at the Royal College of Art.