Tate’s first survey of Sonia Boyce’s forty-year career unfolds across large-scale installations, photography, collage, drawing, film and sculpture, celebrating a practice shaped by fierce experimentation and a refusal to conform. This multi-sensory show traces Boyce’s collaborative and improvisational techniques, inviting visitors on a playful journey into profound questions of collective memory, authorship, and the boundaries between private and public experiences.

Celebrated 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, ever-growing archive created in conversation with the public, and the most extensive presentation to date of her early pastel drawings and collages.

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.