CV — Linnet Panashe Rubaya

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

19 June 2020 - 4 July 2020 Saul Hay Gallery, Machester, UK

INVIOLABLE: Joy as a form of resistance

Black trauma has become far too normal, constantly on display throughout all types of media, and Rubaya chose to create art that demonstrates that, despite all odds, Black people are not just fighting and surviving, but are also thriving and happy. The issues that are suffered by our communities under a white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy and whose repercussions are felt most intolerably by Black women, are not who we are. Struggle, pain, and sorrow are afflictions but not our identity. “My work says: ‘Yes I am Black… but what else?’ I want it to force the viewer to engage more sensitively with the subject beyond race, with the intent of challenging the damaged human respect that is afforded to Black people and championing their intricacy and humanity. With my exhibition, I want to focus on ‘Black Joy’ in the context of Black women, their identity, and resistance in the current socio-political climate.”

GROUP

7 October 2022 - 22 January 2023 The Tetley, Leeds, UK

ROOT-ed Zine presents Retrospect, Reality, Reform

New and existing work in a variety of media by early-career artists from, or based in, the north of England. Four artists have been commissioned to examine the ideas of retrospect, reality, and reform, offering a platform for reflective, unfiltered, and liberating perspectives from artists of colour. “Retrospect, Reality, Reform” responds to numerous contemporary social, political, economical, and environmental issues that have encouraged and also forced a lot of people to pause and reflect on the past, the present, and the future.

16 June 2022 - 24 September 2022 Osart Gallery, Milan, Italy

SHANDUKO

Shanduko (to change/morph in Shona) is a group exhibition, curated by Richard Mudariki and devoted to four contemporary Zimbabwean visual artists: Linnet Rubaya, Franklyn Dzingai, Mostaff Muchawaya, and Wilfred Timire. The exhibition portrays the artists employing different materials and concepts in the creation of a visual way of shaking and shifting the conventional media and, at the same time, keeping a particular focus on representation, memory, and cultural identity.

24 March 2022 - 3 April 2022 No Format Gallery, London, UK

HYSTERICAL

For Women’s History Month 2022, photographer and activist Eliza Hatch of Cheerupluv has teamed up with illustrator and creative Bee Illustrates to co-curate a group show. This exhibition is celebrating a group of women and marginalised genders whose work is centered on community, activism, and uplifting the voices of those around them.

26 March 2022 - 17 April 2022 Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester, UK

New Lights, Northern Lights 10 year retrospective. Saul Hay Gallery
Northern Lights Retrospective celebrates 10 years of the New Light Art Prize Exhibition winners

1 April 2022 - 3 April 2022 Miart Fair, Milan, Italy

Miart fair with Osart gallery in Milan. Osart presented 3 of Rubaya’s pieces which sold out.

19 September 2020 - 10 November 2021 Various Locations, UK

NEW LIGHT PRIZE EXHIBITION: Shining A light on Northern light at Scarborough Art gallery, Scarborough, UK

NEW LIGHT PRIZE EXHIBITION: Shining A light on Northern light at Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK

NEW LIGHT PRIZE EXHIBITION: Shining A light on Northern light at Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, UK

NEW LIGHT PRIZE EXHIBITION: Shining A light on Northern light at Bankside Gallery in London

Winner of the Saul Hay Emerging Artists Award 2020

12 March 2020

Bridgeman studios presents: ART OF DIVERSITY Yinka Shonibare Studios, London, UK

Group Show Curated by Bridgeman Studio at the studio of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA. Artists responded to the prompt of the same title of the show. With nearly 5,000 entries from all over the world, we are proud to announce the winner of this year's award is Ken Nwadiogbu (b. 1994, Lagos, Nigeria), Ken’s incredible technical ability and concept of the Art of Diversity wowed this year's judges, Verizon Media, artists Zak Ove and Sinta Tantra and Bridgeman Images. The runners-up for this year's competition were Rhea Dillon, Gianna Lee Dispenza, Aicha Fall, Linnet Rubaya, and Naira Mushtaq.

27 February 2020 - 10 June 2020 Collyer Bristow Gallery, London UK

ME, MYSELF AND I

Curated by Rosalind Davis, “Me, Myself and I” investigated artists' self-inquiry and expressions of the interior self. Works speak to a range of lived experiences recalling personal and political struggles, family relationships, and memories of childhood. Across painting, drawing, photography, and assemblage the show reflects on themes of freedom and solitude, collectivity and belonging, disenfranchisement, and loss. In liminal spaces between fact and fiction, the fantastical and the every day, twenty artists grapple with - and celebrate - the complexities of identity, selfhood, and finding one's place in the world.

15 February 2020 - 17 May 2020 MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK

MK Calling 2020

MK Gallery presented 2 of Rubaya’s works in this group show, including works of artists that have a connection to Milton Keynes.

07 October 2019 Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Inaugural UK Young Artist of the Year (now UK New Artists)

Shorlisted and Exhibited as 1 of the top 10 artists of the award. The award helps to discover and champion the work of exceptional young artists whose work and vision represent contemporary Britain. From an open call across the UK, we provide a platform for ten finalists whose work demonstrates a strong and original voice and is of exceptional artistic quality.

COLLABORATIONS

October 2020 Various Locations, London, UK

MY ROOTS campaign with Tiktok

Rubaya was commissioned to create 2 pieces of work, translated into murals to celebrate Black British Talent on the TikTok app in the UK. The Murals were displayed at the Prince of Peckham, London, UK, and in Camden, London, UK.

From March 2022 (ongoing) National Gallery, London, UK
BCA x SNAP: HIDDEN BLACK STORIES
‘Hidden Black Stories’ is an immersive Augmented Reality (AR) experience created in partnership with Snapchat, unpacking Black stories that are hidden in the public realm. Rubaya’s Section 60 is on view as a local lens for Snapchatters.