b. 1980, Barbados
Alberta Whittle is an artist, researcher and curator. She was chosen for the Margaret Tait Award for 2018/9, the Turner Prize 2020 bursary, the Henry Moore Foundation artist award 2020 and the Frieze Artist Award 2020.
Her creative practice is motivated by the desire to manifest self-compassion and collective care as key methods in battling anti-blackness. Oscillating between cutting humour and sensitive poetics her work ranges across media and across continents.
Recent and upcoming projects include deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory, Venice Biennale, Scotland Pavilion, Venice (Italy), create dangerously, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), Edinburgh (UK), and Black Venus, The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Fransisco, California (USA), curated by Aindrea Emelife.