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Migration and Art

Explore how artists reflect on moving to new places

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Highlights

  • Where do art and migration meet?

    Step into the shoes of artists, migrants, and makers as they tell their stories

  • The Art of Belonging

    What does it mean to belong? Artists, writers and poets explore the human stories behind art and belonging

  • A Walk Through Tate Modern on the Theme of Migration

    Hear how Tate staff and community voices think about migration as you walk through Tate Modern

  • installation

    Artist and Society

    Explore artworks from Tate's collection that respond to their social and political context

Artworks

  • 2016

    Maggi Hambling
    2016
  • Mother Tongue

    Zineb Sedira
    2002
  • Los Moscos

    Mark Bradford
    2004
    On display at Tate Modern Part of Media Networks
  • Threshold to the Kingdom

    Mark Wallinger
    2000
  • May Heaven Preserve You From Dangers and Assassins

    Mark Bradford
    2010
  • Between the Two my Heart is Balanced

    Lubaina Himid CBE RA
    1991
  • The Emigrants

    William McTaggart
    1883–9
  • Sonponnoi

    Rotimi Fani-Kayode
    1987, printed c.1987–8
    On display at Tate Britain Part of Modern and Contemporary British Art
  • The Strangers

    Thomas Schütte
    1992
  • Union Black

    Chris Ofili
    2003
  • The Immigrant

    Carl Plackman
    1985–7
  • West

    A.R. Penck (Ralf Winkler)
    1980
  • Fighting One’s Self

    Virginia Chihota
    2016
    On display at Tate Modern Part of Start Display
  • Relation of Aesthetic Choice to Life Activity (Function) of the Subject

    Billy Apple
    1961–2
  • Pacific

    Yukinori Yanagi
    1996

Artists

  • Tania Bruguera

    born 1968
  • Marc Chagall

    1887–1985
  • Rotimi Fani-Kayode

    1955–1989
  • Mona Hatoum

    born 1952
  • Yinka Shonibare CBE

    born 1962
  • Sir Anish Kapoor CBE RA

    born 1954

Explore More

  • Jankel Adler's Sketchbooks – 'His life was one long journey'

    Discover the life of Jewish artist Jankel Adler through his sketches, held in Tate's archive

  • The artist Hew Locke wearing a purple top and sat in a chair.

    Hew Locke – 'Let's make something positive'

    The artist walks us through his new work The Procession to explain how his life has informed his art

  • Exploring the Black Atlantic

    In this four-part mini-series, writer and curator Ekow Eshun examines the rich and boundless ways in which artists have engaged with this concept

  • installation of a film screened in a blacked out room. the projection shows a close up of the face of the statue of liberty in new york.

    Static 2009 by Steve McQueen

    Rachel Wells

    This project examines how Static raises questions about freedom, surveillance, migration and the construction of history

  • Diaspora

    Used to describe movements in population from one country to another and is often cited in discussions about identity

  • Anish Kapoor and Ai Weiwei

    Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor: The Walk

    In September 2015, artists Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor walked across London in solidarity with refugees around the world

  • Journeys Coursework Guide

    From physical journeys and migration to journeys of self-discovery, get ideas and inspiration about journeys in art

  • Hans Holbein Portrait of Anne of Cleves c.1539

    Let me in

    Kamila Shamsie

    One writer focuses on the sixteenth-century émigré painter Hans Eworth

  • Black Atlantic

    Black Atlantic describes the fusion of black cultures with other cultures from around the Atlantic

  • James Tissot Portsmouth Dockyard c.1877 Tate Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941

    Eight things to know: Impressionists in London

    We explore the lives and careers of French artists on this side of the English Channel

  • Emeka Ogboh

    Emeka Ogboh: 'Lagos is a city that is never silent'

    When the Nigerian artist first moved to Berlin he couldn’t sleep because it was so quiet

  • Négritude

    An anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in the 1930s

  • Frank Bowling

    Frank Bowling: From figuration to abstraction

    Bowling reflects on his career and the effect of moving from London to New York had on his work

Explore more Themes

  • Black Identities and Art

    Discover Black art and artists in Tate's collection

  • Queer Lives and Art

    Discover LGBTQ artists and queer art

  • Travel and Art

    Explore transport and travel through the eyes of artists

  • Asia and Art

    Discover art and ideas by artists working across the Asian continent

  • Weather and Art

    Explore how artists respond to the seasons and our changing environment

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