Zarina Bhimji

Zarina Bhimji (born in 1963 in Mbarara, Uganda ) is an Indian-born, British artist.

The daughter of Indian immigrants in Uganda in 1974 emigrated with her family after the expulsion by Idi Amin to Britain. She studied from 1983 to 1986 at Goldsmiths College, and from 1988 to 1989 at the Slade School of Fine Art

Works

In her installations of large-format color photos and Lightboxes it focuses in particular on uprooting and exile experience. 1995 was commissioned by the Public Art Development Trust installing Listen to the Room for London's Charity Cross Hospital. In rooms that are mainly used by the hospital staff and objective detail views of dissected human body parts can be seen in the patient area contains imaginative photographs with flowers, ornaments and animals. On the Kassel Documenta 11 in 2002 her work was exhibited brooded The Wall, which deals with the Ugandan terrorist regime under Idi Amin.

Zarina Bhimji 2007 was nominated for the Turner Prize.