Sonia Boyce

**Dame Sonia Dawn Boyce**  (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1962) nyɛla British Afro-Caribbean nuchee ni baŋda ŋun be London ka lahi tumdi ni. O nyɛla baŋda zaŋ n-ti "Black Art and Design" din be University of the Arts London. 

## Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru baŋsim
Bɛ daa dɔɣi o la tiŋ yuli booni Islington, London, yuuni 1962. Boyce nyɛla ŋun daa chaŋ Eastlea Comprehensive School din be Canning Town, East London, bin din gbaai yuuni 1973 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1979. Bin din gbaai yuuni 1979 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1980, o daa naai la Foundation Course in Art & Design shikuru yuli booni East Ham College of Art and Technology, o daa lahi deegi o BA degree in Fine Art din be Stourbridge College bin din gbaai yuuni 1980 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 1983 din be West Midlands.

## Nintiɣili
Boyce nyɛla ninvuɣ so bɛ ni daa piigi Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) yuuni 2007 Birthday Honours, Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) yuuni 2019 New Year Honours n-ti pahi Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) yuuni 2024 New Year Honours, 

Silimiin goli March dabaa awɔi dali yuuni 2016, Boyce nyɛla ninvuɣ so bɛ ni daa piigi pahi Royal Academy.

## Art market
Boyce nyɛla ŋun daa zani n-ti Hauser & Wirth yuuni 2023. O nyɛla ŋun daa na tumdi Simon Lee Gallery bin din gbaai yuuni 2021 zaŋ hali ni yuuni 2023. 

## Maŋmaŋ biɛhigu
Boyce's yidana nyɛla "curator" David A. Bailey, ka bɛ  nyɛ ban mali bihi ayi ban nyɛ paɣaba.

Silimiin goli February yuuni 2023,  Boyce nyɛla ŋun daa yina BBC Radio 4's *[[Desert Island Discs]]*.

## Exhibitions

### Solo

* *Conversations*, The Black-Art Gallery, London (1986)
* *Sonia Boyce,* Air Gallery, London (1986)
* *Sonia Boyce: recent work*, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1988)
* *Something Else*, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London (1991)
* *Do You Want To Touch?*, 181 Gallery, London (1993)
* *Sonia Boyce: PEEP*, Royal Pavilion Art Gallery, Brighton (1995)
* *Recent Sonia Boyce: La, La, La*, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (2001)
* *Devotional*, National Portrait Gallery, London (2007)
* *For you, only you* (ed. Paul Bonaventura, Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University, and tour, 2007/2008)
* *Crop Over*, Harewood House, Leeds, and Barbados Museum & Historical Society (2007/2008)
* *Like Love – Part One*, Spike Island, Bristol, and tour (2009–2010);[20] "Part 2 and Part 3" (2009–2010)
* *Scat – Sound and Collaboration*, Iniva, Rivington Place, London (2013)
* *Paper Tiger Whisky Soap Theatre (Dada Nice)*, Villa Arson, Nice (2016)
* Manchester Art Gallery (2018)

### Group

* *[[Five Black Women]]*, Africa Centre, London (1983)
* *[[Black Woman Time Now]]*, Battersea Arts Centre, London (1983)
* *Strip Language*, Gimpel Fils, London (1984)
* *Into The Open,* Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (1984)
* *Heroes And Heroines*, The Black-Art Gallery, London (1984)
* *Room At The Top*, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London (1985)
* *Blackskins/Bluecoat,* Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (1985)
* *Celebrations/Demonstrations*, St Matthews Meeting Place, London (1985)
* *No More Little White Lies*, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (1985)
* *Reflections*, Riverside Studios, London (1985)
* *The Thin Black Line*, ICA, London (1985)
* *From Generation To Generation*, Black Art Gallery, London (1985)
* *Some Of Us Are Brave – All Of Us Are Strong*, Black Art Gallery London (1986)
* *Unrecorded Truths*, Elbow Room, London (1986)
* *From Two Worlds*, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1986)
* *Caribbean Expressions In Britain*, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery (1986)
* *Basel Art Fair*, Switzerland (1986)
* *State Of The Art*, ICA, London (1986)
* *A Cabinet Of Drawings*, Gimpel Fils, London (1986)
* *The Image Employed – The Use Of Narrative In Black Art*, Cornerhouse, Manchester (1987)
* *Critical Realism*, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery (1987)
* *Basel Art Fair*, Switzerland (1987)
* *Royal Overseas League*, London (1987)
* *The Essential Black Art*, Chisenhale Gallery, London (1988)
* *The Impossible Self*, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (1988)
* *The Thatcher Years*, Angela Flowers Gallery, London (1988)
* *Fashioning Feminine Identities*, University of Essex, Colchester (1988)
* *Along The Lines of Resistance*, Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley (1988)
* *The Wedding*, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (1989)
* *[[The Other Story (exhibition)|The Other Story]]*, Hayward Gallery, London (1989)
* *The Cuban Biennale*, Wifredo Lam Cultural Centre, Havana (1989)
* *The British Art Show*, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow (1990)
* *Distinguishing Marks*, University of London (1990)
* *The Invisible City*, Photographers Gallery, London (1990)
* *Black Markets*, Cornerhouse, Manchester (1990)
* *Delfina Open Studios*, London (1991)
* *Shocks To The System*, Southbank Centre, London (1991)
* *Delfina Annual Summer Show*, London (1991)
* *An English Summer*, Palazzo della Crepadona, Belluna, Italy (1991)
* *Photo Video*, Photographers' Gallery, London (1991)
* *Delfina Annual Summer Show*, London (1992)
* *White Noise*, IKON Gallery, Birmingham (1992)
* *Northern Adventures*, Camden Arts Centre and St Pancras Station, London (1992)
* *Nosepaint Artist Club*, London (1992)
* *Innocence And Experience*, Manchester City Art Galleries (1992)
* *New England Purpose Built: Long Distance Information*, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA (1993)
* *Thinking Aloud*, Small Mansions Art Centre, London (1994)
* *Wish You Were Here*, BANK, London (1994)
* *Glass Vitrine*, INIVA Launch, London (1994)
* *Free Stories*, LA Galerie, Frankfurt (1995)
* *Portable Fabric Shelters*, London Printworks Trust, London (1995)
* *Fetishism*, Brighton Museum, Brighton (1995)
* *Mirage*, ICA, London (1995)
* *Photogenetic*, Street Level, Glasgow (1995)
* *Cottage Industry*, Beaconsfield, London (1995)
* *Picturing Blackness in British Art*, Tate, London (1996)
* *Kiss This*, Focalpoint Gallery, Southend (1996)
* *Video Positive: the Other Side of Zero*, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (2000)
* *New Woman Narratives*, World-Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (2000)
* *Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis*, Tate Modern, London (2001)
* *Sharjah International Biennial: 7*, Sharjah (2005)
* *Menschen und Orte*, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz (2008)
* *Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty*, Thessaloniki Biennal 2, Greece (2009)
* *Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic*, Tate Liverpool and tour (2010)
* *Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture*, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2010)
* *Griot Girlz: Feminist Art and the Black Atlantic*, Kunstlerhaus Büchenhausen, Innsbruck (2010)
* *¡Afuera! Art in Public Spaces*, Centro Cultural España/Cordoba, Argentina (2010)
* *8+8 Contemporary International Video Art*, 53 Museum, Guangzhou (2011)
* *The Impossible Community*, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2011)
* *Coming Ashore*, Berardo Collection Museum/P-28 Container Project, Lisbon (2011)
* *Black Sound White Cube*, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (2011)
* *Migrations: Journeys into British Art*, Tate Britain (2012)
* *There is no archive in which nothing gets lost*, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2012)
* *Play! Re-capturing the Radical Imagination*, Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 7 (2013)
* *Keywords*, Rivington Place, London (2013)
* *Speaking in Tongues*, CCA, Glasgow (2014)
* *All the World's Futures*, 56th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, Venice (2015)
* *[[No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990]]*, Guildhall Art Gallery, London (2015–16)

## Selected awards and recognition

* 2007: appointed a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List, for services to art
* 2016: elected to the Royal Academy of Arts
* 2019: appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the New Year Honours, for services to art
* 2020: selected to represent the United Kingdom at the 59th Venice Biennale
* 2022: awarded the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for her piece *[[Feeling Her Way]]*

## Research positions

* 1996–2002: Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of East London
* 1996–2002: Co-Director, AAVAA (the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive)
* 2004–2005: Artist Fellow, NESTA 
* 2008–2011: Research Fellow, Wimbledon College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London. AHRC.
* 2015–2018: Principal Investigator, *Black Artists and Modernism* (BAM)  

## Selected publications
*Gilane Tawadros, *Sonia Boyce: Speaking in Tongues*, London: Kala Press, 1997.
* *Annotations 2/Sonia Boyce: Performance* (ed. Mark Crinson, Iniva – the Institute of International Visual Arts, 1998)
*In 2007, Boyce, David A. Bailey mini Ian Baucom nyɛla ban daa laɣim deegi Taarihi zaŋ n-ti British Art Book Prize (USA) zaŋ n-ti *Shades of Black: Assembling Black Art yuuni 1980s Britain maliniŋ*, ka Duke University Press daa zaŋ li wuhi salo ni Iniva and AAVAA.
* Allison Thompson, "Sonia Boyce and Crop Over", *[[Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism|Small Axe]]*, Volume 13, Number 2, 2009.
**Like Love*, Spike Island, Bristol, and tour (ed. Axel Lapp; Berlin: Green Box Press, 2010)
*Boyce nyɛla ŋun daa sɔŋ yuuni 2021 *[[Art History (journal)|Art History]]* yɛltɔɣa maliniŋ Black British Modernism ni Dorothy Price.
*John Roberts, "Interview with Sonia Boyce", Third Text, no. 1 (Autumn 1987), 55–64
*Sonia Boyce, "Talking in Tongues",  *Storms of the Heart*, ka ŋun daa mali li niŋ nyɛ Kwesi Owusu
*Facsimile zaŋ n-ti Sonia Boyce din be Veronica Ryan's: *Compartments/Apart-ments*

## Kundivihira

## Further reading
**Sonia Boyce* (exhibition catalogue, intro Pitika Ntuli; London, Air Gallery, 1987) [texts by Boyce]
**The Impossible Self* (exhibition catalogue by B. Ferguson, S. Nairne, S. Boyce and others, Winnipeg, A.G., 1988)
*M. Corris: "Sonia Boyce at Vanessa Devereux Gallery", Artforum, xxx (1992), p.&nbsp;124
*Gilane Tawadros, *Sonia Boyce: Speaking in Tongues*. London: Kala Press, 1997. 
**Recent Sonia Boyce: La, La, La* (exhibition catalogue by S. Fillin-Yeh and M. Verhagen; Portland, OR, Reed Coll, Cooley A.G.; 2001)
*David A. Bailey, Kobena Mercer, Catherine Ugwu (eds), *MIRAGE: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire*, ICA, 1995. .
*M. Crinson (ed.): *Sonia Boyce: Performance*, Institute of International Visual Arts in collaboration with Cornerhouse (London, 1998)

## External links
* 
* John Elmes, "Interview with Sonia Boyce", *[[Times Higher Education]]*, 17 December 2015.
* InIVA on Sonia Boyce
* National Portrait Gallery 
* Sue Hubbard, "Sonia Boyce at The Agency" (review), ''The Independent'', 6 December 2004.
* "Sonia Boyce: 'Gathering a history of black women. Interview 27 July 2018, Tate.
* "Whoever Heard of a Black Artist - Britain's Hidden Art History"
* "Sonia Boyce RA". Profile on Royal Academy site