Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce takes over Tate Britain from 26 March to 22 August 2027, in the gallery's first survey of her forty-year career. It's a wide-reaching show that pulls from large-scale installations, photography, collage, drawing, film and sculpture, all presented in a multi-sensory format. The exhibition traces her collaborative and improvisational techniques and the way she works with collective memory and the boundaries between private and public experience.

There's a good mix of the familiar and the unseen here. Some of her most celebrated works have been reimagined for the room, and they sit alongside pieces that have never been shown in the UK before. Among them is the Devotional series, her living archive built in conversation with the public, and the most extensive presentation to date of her early pastel drawings and collages.

Boyce first emerged in the 1980s within the British Black Arts Movement, and from there she went on to pioneer photographic, performance and participatory practice as an artist, academic and educator. She gained global recognition when she represented Great Britain at the 2022 Venice Biennale, where she was awarded the Golden Lion.

The exhibition runs daily from 10.00 to 18.00 at Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. It's free for Members; the general admission price is yet to be confirmed.