The Courtauld Institute of Artwork is proud to announce the conferment of Honorary Doctorate levels (Physician Honoris Causa) to 2 distinguished figures within the discipline of Artwork Historical past: Professor Lubaina Himid CBE RA and Dr Helen C. Evans.
Professor Lubaina Himid CBE RA is an artist and curator who has devoted her profession to uncovering marginalised and silenced histories. All through a profession spanning 4 many years, she has explored and expanded the probabilities of portray and storytelling to depict up to date on a regular basis life and to fill gaps in artwork historical past via the depiction and centering of Black figures and experiences.
Self-described as a painter, cultural activist, witness, storyteller, and historian, Lubaina was one of many first artists concerned within the UK’s Black Artwork motion within the Eighties and continues to create activist artwork which is broadly exhibited in galleries worldwide. She has been a constant and trailblazing champion of ladies artists and has curated important group exhibitions, together with The Skinny Black Line on the Institute of Up to date Arts (1985), which was revisited in Skinny Black Line(s) at Tate Britain (2011-12) and is presently being restaged on the ICA in Connecting Skinny Black Traces 1985-2025.
Lubaina is Professor Emerita of up to date artwork on the College of Central Lancashire. She was awarded the Turner Prize in 2017, was made a CBE for companies to artwork within the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours checklist, and was elected a Royal Academician the identical 12 months.
Dr Helen C. Evans is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita of Byzantine Artwork at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, New York. She is a scholar, curator and a number one knowledgeable on the humanities of Armenia and the broader Byzantine world.
At The Met, Helen oversaw the set up of the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Byzantine Artwork, the primary galleries dedicated to Byzantine artwork in a serious encyclopaedic museum. She additionally organised a few of the most formidable, compelling, and internationally award-winning exhibitions of medieval artwork that The Met has proven, together with The Glory of Byzantium (1997), Byzantium: Religion and Energy (2004), Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (2012), and Armenia! (2018).
Helen is a former Head of The Met’s Discussion board of Curators, Conservators and Analysis Scientists and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. She is a previous President of each the Worldwide Middle of Medieval Artwork (ICMA) and the Affiliation of Artwork Museum Curators. She is chair of the Mary Jaharis Middle for Byzantine Artwork and Tradition (MJCBAC).
The conferring of those Honorary Doctorates underscores The Courtauld’s dedication to recognising leaders within the fields of Artwork and Artwork Historical past who reveal extraordinary accomplishments and encourage future generations. The honorary levels have been offered at The Courtauld’s Commencement Ceremony on 23 July 2025.
Acknowledging their excellent help of the humanities, The Courtauld additionally awarded an Honorary Fellowship to Sam Fogg and Dr Yan Huo.
Sam Fogg is likely one of the world’s preeminent sellers in medieval arts spanning from Western Europe to Islamic West Asia, and the Far East. Incomes a BA in Artwork Historical past from The Courtauld, he has been a eager supporter of analysis, main publications, assortment constructing, and philanthropy, serving to disseminate new data and he has made discoveries which were recognised and celebrated by teachers, curators, and collectors.
Dr Yan Huo is Managing Accomplice and Chief Funding Officer of Capula Funding Administration LLP. Previous to co-founding Capula in 2005, Yan spent most of his skilled profession at JP Morgan the place he labored in its Derivatives Analysis and Proprietary Positioning enterprise. Yan has made a profound impression on training and the humanities via the Huo Household Basis, which is amongst probably the most important supporters of exhibitions in the UK.
