Sonia Boyce in her studio, 2025 © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2026. Photo: Lily Bertrand-Webb
Opening March 2027 in London, Tate Britain will present a major exhibition of works by Sonia Boyce DBE RA. Celebrating the artist’s practice, shaped by her fierce experimentation and a refusal to conform, the multi-sensory exhibition will span more than four decades, bringing together large-scale installations, photography, collage, drawing, film and sculpture. It will trace Boyce’s collaborative and improvisational techniques, navigating questions of collective memory and the boundaries between private and public experiences.
Tate’s first survey of Boyce’s works are reimagined for the exhibition and shown in dialogue with installations never shown before in the UK. Highlights include the ‘Devotional’ series—Boyce’s living, evolving archive shaped through dialogue with the public, and the most extensive presentation to date of her early pastel drawings and collages.
Sonia Boyce, Untitled (Kiss), 1995 © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2026
Devotional Wallpaper and Placards (detail), 2008 – 2022 © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2026. Courtesy Manchester Art Gallery. Photo: Mike Pollard
Emerging in the 1980s within the British Black Arts Movement, Boyce went on to pioneer photographic, performance and participatory practice. An artist, academic and educator, Boyce gained global recognition when she represented Great Britain at the 2022 Venice Biennale and was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion.
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‘Sonia Boyce’ will be on view from 24 March through 22 August 2027.
Learn more about Sonia Boyce.
Watch a film from Ursula magazine’s Material series, where the artist discusses the social, political and ethereal roles of wallpaper in her work.
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