Sonia Boyce DBE RA Hon FBA (b. London, 1962) is an interdisciplinary artist and academic working across film, drawing, photography, print, sound, and installation. In 2022, she presented FEELING HER WAY, a major commission for the British Pavilion at the 59 International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation.

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Boyce came to prominence in the early 1980s as a key figure in the burgeoning British Black Art Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. Since the 1990s, however, Boyce has shifted significantly to embrace a social practice that invites improvisation, collaboration, movement, and sound with other people. Working across a range of media, Boyce’s practice today is focused on questions of artistic authorship and cultural difference.

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In 2016, Boyce was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in London. In 2023, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Science in Boston, and in 2024 Boyce was elected as an Honorary Fellow to the British Academy. In 2014 she became a Professor at University of the Arts London, where she holds the inaugural Chair in Black Art & Design. A three-year research project into Black Artists & Modernism culminated with a BBC documentary Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? (2018) exploring the contributions of African and Asian descent artists to the story of modern British art. In the 2024 King’s New Year Honours List, Boyce was awarded a Damehood.

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Her work is in many UK and international museum collections including TATE, London: Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Arts Council Collection of England, London; British Council, London; Government Art Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; and Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), Paris.

• 2024An Awkward Relation (conceived alongside Lygia Clark: The I and The You), Whitechapel Gallery, London (exh. cat.)

• BENEVOLENCE, GaMEC commission, Palazzo Ragione, Bergamo, Italy

• Sonia Boyce: FEELING HER WAY, PHI Foundation, Montréal, Canada (exh. cat.)

• 2023Sonia Boyce: FEELING HER WAY, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; tour to Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (exh. cat.)

• 2022How (not) to present a collection: A re-presentation of One of Six Acts – Ain’t Misbehavin’, Spreeufer, Berlin, Germany

• The Disorderly, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy

• Just for the Record, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

• Sonia Boyce: FEELING HER WAY, British Pavilion, 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (exh. cat.)

• 2021Trackside Wall – Crossrail/UP Projects public art commission, Royal Docks, London, UK

• 2020In the Castle of My Skin, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK; tour to

  Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough, UK (2021)

• 2018Sonia Boyce, Manchester Art Gallery,Manchester, UK

• 2017We move in her way, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

• 2016Paper Tiger Whisky Soap Theatre (Dada Nice), Villa Arson, Nice, France

• For you, only you, Edith Russ Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, Germany

• 2015Artist Reflections, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, Devon, UK

• Sonia Boyce – Oh Adelaide: a collaboration with Ain Bailey, Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy

• 2013Scat – Sound and Collaboration, the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Rivington Place, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Who Are You? E S Gallery, Merano, Italy

• 2012Sonia Boyce: Crop Over and Ho Narro, Colleton Hall, Barbados

• 2011Network, Peckham Space (now Peckham Platform), London, UK

• Crop Over, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University, Durham, USA

• 2010Oh Adelaide: a collaboration with Ain Bailey, Wimbledon Space, University of the Arts London, London, UK

• 2009Like Love Part One, Spike Island, Bristol, UK

• Like Love Part Two, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK

• Like Love Part Three, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK (exh. cat.)

• 2007Devotional, National Portrait Gallery, London

• For You, Only You, Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; toured to Milton Keynes Gallery/Offsite, Milton Keynes, UK; Locus Plus, Newcastle, UK and Model Arts/Offsite, Sligo, Ireland (exh. cat.)

• Crop Over, Harewood House, Leeds; toured to Barbados Museum & Historical Society, Bridgetown, Barbados (2008).

• 2004Sonia Boyce, The Agency, London, UK

• 2001Recent Sonia Boyce: La, La, La, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA (exh. cat.)

• 1998Sonia Boyce: Performance, Cornerhouse (now HOME), Manchester, UK (exh. cat.)

• 1995Sonia Boyce: PEEP, Royal Pavilion Art Gallery, Brighton, UK (exh. cat.)

• 1993Do You Want To Touch?, 181 Gallery, London, UK

• 1991Something Else, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London, UK

• 1988Sonia Boyce: Recent work, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

• 1986Sonia Boyce, Air Gallery, London

• Conversations, The Black-Art Gallery, London

• 2024Transfeminisms Chapter IV: Care and Kinship, Mimosa House, London, UK

• Toronto Biennial of Art 2024: Precious Joys, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (exh. cat.)

• Friends in Love and War, MacLyon, Lyon, France; tour to IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK (exh. cat.)

• Among the Invisible Joins - works from the Enea Righi Collection, Museion Foundation, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy

• Entangled Pasts, 1768–now. Art, Colonialism and Change, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• The Time of Our Lives, Drawing Room, London, UK

• Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, The Institutum, Singapore

• 2023Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970 – 1990, Tate Britain, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• FERNWEH/Wanderlust: an exhibition on Exoticism and Cultural Appropriation, MEWO, Kunsthalle Memmingen, Germany

• Seeds and Souls, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Black Venus: Reclaiming Black Women in Visual Culture, Somerset House, London, UK

• Windrush. Portraits of a Pioneering Generation, Royal Collection Trust, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, UK; tour to National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• A Tall Order! Rochdale Art Gallery in the 80s, Touchstones Rochdale, UK (exh. cat.)

• 2022Femme Fatale, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

• Radio Ballads, Serpentine Galleries and Barking Town Hall, London, UK

• Rock My Soul II (Stockholm), Gallery Futura, Stockholm, Sweden

• Bold, Black & British, Christie’s, London, UK

• 2021Life Between Islands. Caribbean – British Art 50s - Now, Tate Britain, London, UK; tour to Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Canada (2023) (exh. cat.)

• 2020Of Bread, Wine, Cars, Security and Peace, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

• What Carries Us, The Rooms, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

• Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK

• Diversity United, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; tour to Templehof, Berlin, Germany (2021)

• 201960 Years: A Walk Through British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK

• Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Fully Awake 4.6, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

• Rock My Soul, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

• 2018Sounds Like Her – Gender, Sound Art and Sonic Cultures, New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK; tour to York Art Gallery, York (2019) and Gallery Oldham, Oldham (2019)

• Á Cris Ouverts, Rennes Biennale of Contemporary Art, Rennes, France

• Social Work, Frieze Special Projects, London

• Talisman in the Age of Difference, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

• 2017The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Prospect 4, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, USA (exh. cat.)

• 2016Artist and Empire, Tate Britain, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of the Arts, London, UK

• 2015All the World’s Futures, La Biennale di Venezia, 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy (exh. cat.)

• Signal to Noise, The Kitchen/Whitney Independent Curatorial Program, New York, USA (exh. cat.)

• Music for Museums, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

• No Colour Bar, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• 2014Speaking in Tongues, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK

• Alle Maskerade! Carnival and Masquerade, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany (exh. cat.)

• Sounds: Images, Hearing, Noises, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen, Germany

• 2013Discipline and Punishment, Ljubljana Biennale, Ljubljana, Slovenia; tour to Meschelen Biennale,Meschelen, Belgium and Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK (2014)

• Play! Recapturing the Radical Imagination, Göteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 7, Gothenburg, Sweden (exh. cat.)

• Assembly: Recent Artist’s Film and Video in Britain 2008 – 2013, Tate Britain, London, UK

• Keywords, the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), Rivington Place, London, UK

• 2012There is no archive in which nothing gets lost, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

• Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• No Now!, Space Station 65, London, UK

• 28 Days: Re-Imagining Black History Month, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada

• 2011Coming Ashore, Berardo Collection Museum/P28 Container Project, Lisbon, Portugal

• 8 + 8 Contemporary Video Art, 53 Art Museum, Quangzhou, China (exh. cat.)

• The Thin Black Line(s), Tate Britain, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• The Imagination of Children, Museum of Childhood, London, UK

• The Impossible Community, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia (exh. cat.)

• Ask Your Mama, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Austria (exh. cat.)

• In – and outside – writing, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium (exh. cat.)

• Black Sound White Cube, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

• The Future is Social: the work that was not mine, Wimbledon Space, University of the Arts London, London, UK

• What the Folk Say, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK

• 2010Afro Modern: Journey Through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (exh. cat.)

• 2009Praxis: Art in Times of Uncertainty, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art 2, Thessaloniki, Greece (exh. cat.)

• Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art & Culture, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (exh. cat.)

• Griot Girlz: Feminist Art and the Black Atlantic, Kunstlerhaus Büchenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria

• A Missing History: The Other Story Revisited, Aicon Gallery, London, UK

• ¡Afuera¡ Art in Public Spaces, Centro Cultural España Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina (exh. cat.)

• 2008Menschen und Orte, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany (exh. cat.)

• Present, Garcia Gallery, New York, USA

• Femmes ‘R’ Us, Radialsystem V, Berlin, Germany

• The Local, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK

• Portrait of the Artists as a Researcher, Beursschowburg, Brussels, Belgium

• 2007Crossing the Waters, Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK

• Triple Echo, De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK

• Review, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin, Germany

• 2006One Nation Funk’d (performance with Funk Chorus), Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK

• BOOK, Mortimer Road, London, UK

• For One Night Only, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

• 2005Sharjah International Biennial 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (exh. cat.)

• London in 6 Easy Pieces, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Video Festival, La Llama, Caracas, Venezuela

• Don’t Be Afraid, University of Central Lancaster, Preston, UK

• Preview Berlin, Back Fabrik, Berlin, Germany

• The Flag Project, 254 Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

• Radical and Modest, Ben Uri Gallery, London, UK

• Seeing is Believing: Faith in the Tate Collection, Tate Liverpool, UK

• 2004Stranger Than Fiction, City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK; tour to Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK and Aberystwyth Arts Centre,Aberystwyth, UK; Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK; Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, UK (2005) and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, UK (2005) (exh. cat.)

• Lilith, MOT, London, UK

• SV04, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

• 2003Belongings, Hastings Museum, Hastings, UK

• Out of Place, Harewood House, Leeds, UK

• Strangers to Ourselves, Hastings Museum, Hastings, UK; tour to 201 St John Street, London, UK and Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK

• 2002In Focus: From Tarzan to Rambo, Tate Modern, London, UK

• Self-Evident, Tate Britain, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Travelogue, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (exh. cat.)

• 2001Century City: Art & Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Modern, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Ponte Futura, Fortezza Grifalco, Cortona, Italy

• It’s a Wonderful Life, The Apartment, Athens, Greece

• The Whitechapel Art Gallery Centenary Review, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Slipstream, Film and Video Umbrella, London, UK

• 2000Video Positive: The Other Side of Zero, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK (exh. cat.)

• New Woman Narratives, World-Wide Video Festival, The Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (exh. cat.)

• Painting the Century, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• A Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK

• Licked, Gasworks, London, UK

• 1999From Where to Here, Konsthallen Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden (exh. cat.)

• Sonia Boyce/Hermione Wiltshire, Wigmore Fine Art London, UK

• Plain Magic, Royal Festival Hall, London UK

• 1998The Unmapped Body: Three Black British Artists, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (exh. cat.)

• Eastenders, Annual Programme, Manchester, UK

• 1997Transforming the Crown: African Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain 1966-1996, The Franklin H Williams Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, NY, USA; tour to Studio Museum, Harlem, USA and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA (exh. cat.)

• 1996Kiss This, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK

• Picturing Blackness in British Art, Tate, London, UK

• Join the Dots, 5020 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

• Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark; tour to Uppsala Konstmuseum, Slottet, Uppsala, Sweden (exh. cat.)

• 1995Cottage Industry, Beaconsfield, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Photogenetic, Street Level, Glasgow, UK

• Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Fetishism – Visualising Power, Brighton Museum, Brighton; tour to

  Southbank Centre, London; Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham and The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK (exh. cat.)

• Portable Fabric Shelters, London Printworks Trust, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Free Stories, LA Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany

• 1994Glass Vitrine, the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London, UK

• Wish You Were Here, BANK, London; tour to Newcastle, UK

• Thinking Aloud, Small Mansions Art Centre, London, UK

• 1993New England Purpose Built: Long Distance Information, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

• 1992Innocence and Experience, Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, UK (exh. cat.)

• Nosepaint Artists Club, London, UK

• Northern Adventures, Camden Arts Centre/St Pancras Station, London, UK

• White Noise, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK

• Delfina Annual Summer Show, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

• 1991Photo Video, Photographers Gallery, London, UK

• An English Summer, Palazzo della Crepadona, Belluna, Italy

• Delfina Annual Summer Show, Delfina Foundation, London, UK

• Delfina Open Studios, Delfina Studios, London, UK

• Shocks to the System, Royal Festival Hall, London; tour to IKON, Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Royal Festival Hall, London and Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (exh. cat.)

• 1990Black Markets, Cornerhouse, Manchester (now HOME); tour to Southbank Centre, London and Coventry Art Gallery, Coventry, UK

• The Invisible City, Photographers Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Distinguishing Marks, University of London, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; tour to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds and Hayward Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• 1989The Havana Biennale, Wifredo Lam Cultural Centre, Havana, Cuba

• The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain, Hayward Gallery, London; tour to

  Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester and Cornerhouse, Manchester (now HOME), UK (exh. cat.)

• The Wedding, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK

• 1988Along the Lines of Resistance, Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley; tour to

  Rochdale Gallery, Rochdale; South London Gallery, London; Bonington Gallery, Nottingham; Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury; Kent Institute of Art & Design, Kent, UK and Video Art 90, Cork Film Festival and Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland (exh. cat.)

• Fashioning Feminine Identities, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

• The Thatcher Years, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, UK

• The Impossible Self, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; tour to Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (exh. cat.)

• The Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• 1987Royal Overseas League, London, UK

• Critical Realism, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK (exh. cat.)

• The Image Employed – The Use of Narrative in Black Art, Cornerhouse (now HOME), Manchester, UK (exh. cat.)

• State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; tour to Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK and Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, UK (exh. cat.)

• 1986A Cabinet of Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

• Caribbean Expressions in Britain, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery, Leicestershire, UK

• From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Unrecorded Truths, Elbow Room, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Some of Us Are Brave: All of Us Are Strong, Black Art Gallery, London, UK

• 1985From Generation to Generation, Black Art Gallery, London, UK

• The Thin Black Line, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK (exh. cat.)

• Reflections, Riverside Studios, London, UK

• No More Little White Lies, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK

• Celebration/Demonstration, St Matthews Meeting Place, London, UK

• Black Skins/Bluecoat, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK

• Room At The Top, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London, UK

• 1984Heroes and Heroines, The Black Art Gallery, London, UK

• Into The Open, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK

  Strip Language, Gimpel Fils, London, UK

• 1983Black Woman Time Now, Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK

• Five Black Women, Africa Centre, London, UK

• 2024Awarded a Damehood (DBE) in the King’s New Year Honours List, UK, for Services to Art

• Honorary Doctorate, The Glasgow School of Art

• Honorary Fellow of the British Academy

• 2023Academician, American Academy of the Arts and Sciences, USA

• Doctorate of Literature Honoris Causa, The Courtauld, University of London, UK

• Honorary Doctorate, Birmingham City University, UK

• 2022Awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the 59th Venice Biennale, Italy, for her work FEELING HER WAY

• Honorary Fellow, Norwich University of the Arts, UK

• Harper’s Bazaar Woman of the Year Award, London, UK

• 2019Awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List, UK, for Services to Art

• Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London, UK

• 2016Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

• Paul Hamlyn Artist Award, London, UK

• 2015Principal Investigator, Arts & Humanities Research Council for Black Artists and Modernism, University of the Arts London/Middlesex University, London, UK

• 2012Artist-in-Residence, Valand Artistic Research Centre, University of Göteborg, Gothenburg, Sweden

• 2011Artist Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities Research Council for The Future is Social, Flat-Time House, London, UK

• 2008Artist Research Fellow, Arts & Humanities Research Council for Second-Hand: Tracing the performative in drawing, University of the Arts London, UK

• 2007Awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List, UK, for Services to Art

• 2004Artist Fellow, NESTA (National Endowment for Sciences and the Arts) Award, London, UK

• 2001Artist-in-Residence, School of Art & Art History, Duke University, Durham, USA

• Artist-in-Residence, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA

• 1997Artist-in-Residence, Department of Art History, University of Manchester, UK

MONOGRAPHS

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• 2022E. Ridgway and C. J. Martin, Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, Yale University Press, London, UK

• 2017S. Orlando (ed.), Sonia Boyce: Thoughtful Disobedience, Les presses du réel, Dijon, France

• 2013T. Jackson (ed.), Sonia Boyce: Scat – Sound – Collaboration, the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London, UK

• 2010A. Lapp (ed.), Sonia Boyce: Like Love, The Green Box Press, Berlin, Germany

• 2007P. Bonaventura (ed.), For you, only you, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

• 2001S. Fillin-Yeh and M. Verhagen, Recent Sonia Boyce: La, La, La, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA

• 1998M. Crinson (ed.), Annotations 2/Sonia Boyce: Performance, the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), London, UK

• 1997G. Tawadros, Sonia Boyce: Speaking in Tongues, Kala Press, London, UK

• 1995A. Shelton and G. Tawadros (eds.), PEEP, Brighton Museum/Iniva, London, UK

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ESSAYS

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• 2024L. Sillars, Art in Action: Learning from Sonia Boyce’s ‘Feeling Her Way’, Venice 2022, Clore Leadership Research, UK

• 2023A. Akbar Mehta, Sonia Boyce: The Boycean Double-Bind, in '30 Works from the Saastamoinen Foundation Art Collection', pp. 40-42, Saastamoinen Foundation, Helsinki, Norway

• 2022M. Quinn, Psychoanalysis and radical philistinism in the museum, 'Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society Journal', Volume 27, pp. 20-36, Palgrave MacMillan, London, UK

• 2021F. Espinoza Garrido and A. C. Mendes, The Politics of Museal Hospitality: Sonia Boyce’s Neo-Victorian Takeover in ‘Six Acts’, 'European Journal of English Studies', Volume 24, Issue 3: Neo-Victorian Negotiations of Hostility, Empathy, and Hospitality, London, UK

• 2020N. Shaked, Sonia Boyce: Reclassifying Classification, 'Afterall Journal of Art', Volume 49, Spring/Summer, London, UK

• C. Honorato, From Representation to Collaboration (and Vice Versa): Antagonisms in Sonia Boyce’s Participatory Projects, 'Afterall Journal of Art', Volume 49, Spring/Summer, London, UK

• 2019A. Dalal-Clayton, Sonia Boyce: Beyond Blackness, 'NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art', No. 45, pp. 62-73, Duke University Press, Durham, USA

• 2018C. Bernier, Stick to the Skin: African American and Black British Art, 1965-2015, pp. 150-156, University of California Press, Oakland, USA

• 2014G. Tawadros, Dissonant Divas: Sonia Boyce, Sound and Collaboration, 'NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art', No. 35, pp. 22-31, Duke University Press, Durham, USA

• E. Chambers, Sonia Boyce and Other Black Women Artists, in 'Black Artists in British Art: A History Since the 1950s', pp. 140-155, I. B. Tauris, London, UK/New York, USA

• 2009A. Thompson, Sonia Boyce and Crop Over, 'Small Axe', Volume 13, No. 29, pp. 148-163, Duke University Press, Durham, USA

• 2007R. Malik-Okon, Sonia Boyce: Margate Mementos, in D. Butler and V. Reiss (eds.) 'The Art of Negotiation', pp. 91-115, Arts Council England, London, UK

• 2006M. Crinson, Fragments of Collapsing Space: Postcolonial Theory and Contemporary Art, in A. Jones (ed.) 'A Companion to Contemporary Art Since 1945', pp. 450-467, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK

• 1998I. Baucom, Every Bit of It. All Complete, in 'The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists' (exh. cat.), pp. 5-20, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

• 1995R. Malbert, Fetishism and Form in Contemporary Art, in A. Shelton (ed.) 'Fetishism: Visualizing Power and Desire', pp. 89-124, Southbank Centre in association with Lund Humphries, London, UK

• 1992S. Hall, Reconstruction Work, in D. A. Bailey and S. Hall (eds.) 'Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s', pp. 106-113, Ten 8 Photography Journal, Vol 2, No. 3, Birmingham, UK

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• COLLECTION OF WRITINGS

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• 2022A. Correia, What is Black Art?, Penguin Books, London UK

• 2021D. A. Bailey and A. Thompson (eds.), Liberation Begins in the Imagination: Writings on Caribbean-British Art, Tate Publishing, London, UK

• D. A. Bailey and A. Farquharson (eds.), Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art, 1950s – Now, Tate Publishing, London, UK

• S. Jackson, Black Artists Shaping the World, Thames and Hudson, London, UK

• 2016K. Mercer, Travel and See: Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s, Duke University Press, Durham, USA/London, UK

• 2015O. Enwezor, All the World’s Futures: 56 International Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arts, Venice, Italy

• 2007A. Malik, Migratory Aesthetics, (Dis)Placing the ‘Black’ Maternal Subject in Martina Attille’s Dreaming Rivers (1988), in R. Victoria Arana (ed.) Black British Aesthetics Today, pp. 243-261, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

• 2006G. Saunders and R. Miles, Prints Now: Directions and Definitions, V&A Publishing, London, UK

• 2000J. Putnam, Art and Artifact: Artists and the Museum, Thames and Hudson, London, UK

• H. Ricketts and P. Phelan (eds.), Art and Feminism, Phaidon, London, UK

• 1998V. Poupeye, Caribbean Art, Thames and Hudson, London, UK

• 1997R. Powell, Black Art in the Twentieth Century, Thames and Hudson, London, UK

• 1996S. Lawson, The Twentieth Century Art Book, Phaidon, London, UK

• 1990J. Roberts, Postmodernism, Politics and Art, Manchester University Press, Manchester, UK

• W. Chadwick, Women, Art and Society, Thames and Hudson, London, UK

• 1987R. Betterton, Looking On, Pandora Press, London, UK

• R. Parker and G. Pollock (eds.), Framing Feminism, Pandora Press, London, UK

• S. Nairne, G. Dunlop and J. Wyver (eds.), State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s, Chatto & Windus, London, UK

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INTERVIEWS, ARTIST’S WRITINGS & PUBLISHING

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• 2024S. Boyce, Foreword, in J. Gregory (ed.) 'Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain', pp. 12-13, MACK and Autograph, London, UK

• 2021S. Boyce and D. Price (eds.), Rethinking British Art: Black Artists and Modernism, 'Art History Journal', Vol 44, No. 2, Spring/Summer, Wiley, London, UK

• S. Boyce and D. Price, Dearly Beloved or Unrequited? To Be ‘Black’ in Art’s Histories, in S. Boyce and D. Price (eds.), 'Rethinking British Art: Black Artists and Modernism', pp. 462-480, Art History Journal, Vol 44, No. 2, Spring/Summer, Wiley, London, UK

• 2019S. Boyce, All the Rage: For Oluwale and Destruction of the National Front, in N. Aikens and E. Robles (eds.), 'The Place is Here: The Work of Black Artists in 1980s Britain', pp. 113-137, Sternberg Press, London, UK

• S. Boyce, Dearly Beloved: Transitory Relations and the Queering of ‘Women’s Work’ in David Medalla’s A Stitch in Time (1967-72), in N. Aikens, S. Lok and S. Orlando (eds.) 'Conceptualism: Intersectional Readings, International Framings – Situating ‘Black Artists and Modernism in Europe', pp. 282-299, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

• S. Boyce, From Substrate to the Riverbed, in E. Crippa (ed.), 'Frank Bowling', pp. 70-77, Tate Publishing, London, UK

• 2018S. Boyce and G. Saunders, The Sensorial Wall: A Conversation with Sonia Boyce and Gill Saunders, in M. Quinn, D. Beech, M. Lehnert, C. Tulloch and S. Wilson (eds.) 'The Persistence of Taste: Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu', pp. 319-330, Routledge, Oxford, UK

• 2013S. Boyce, PAPER Issue 2: Devotional Collection – A project by Sonia Boyce, self-published, London, UK

• 2012S. Boyce, PAPER Issue 1: Returning to the BLK Art Group – A project by Sonia Boyce to mark the 30th Anniversary of the First National Black Art Convention, self-published, London, UK

• 2005D. A. Bailey, I. Baucom and S. Boyce (eds.), Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain, Duke University Press in collaboration with the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) and the African and Asian Visual Artists’ Archive (AAVAA), Durham, USA