Lubaina Himid

Known for: Turner Prize winner (2017); painting addressing overlooked Black histories

Lubaina Himid was a central figure in the Black British art movement of the 1980s, curating exhibitions that brought work by Black women artists into public view before establishing her own painting practice centered on the recovery of overlooked histories and identities. She won the Turner Prize in 2017 at 63, becoming both the oldest winner and the first Black woman to receive it. Her Navigation Charts installation — a room of painted fabric panels based on eighteenth-century textile patterns — connected the decorative arts to the history of the slave trade.