Education
2019 – 2021 Slade School of Fine Art, MFA (Distinction)
2015 – 2017 Royal College of Art, MA in Visual Communication, London
2011 – 2014 Central Saint Martins, BA (Hons) Graphic design, London
Awards
2021 Desiree Painting Prize
2020 Max Werner Drawing Prize (joint winner)
2020 The Terence Cuneo Memorial Trust award
2017 Quentin Blake Narrative Drawing and Illustration Prize
2016 Gordon Peter Pickard travel award
Residencies
2022 IN TRANSIT online art platform https://intransit.space/artist-studios/latifahstranack
2021 COLART Winsor & Newton
Finalist
Saatchi Art Rising stars 2022 https://www.saatchiart.com/stories/rising-stars-2022/
ArtWorks Open 2020
Shortlist
The Football Art Prize 2022 (shortlisted)
ACS Studio Prize 2021 (shortlisted)
Ashurst Emerging art prize (shortlisted)
New emergence art prize 2020 (shortlisted)
Signature Art Prize for drawing and printmaking 2019/20 (shortlisted)
ArtWorks Open 2019 (Shortlisted)
Upcoming Group shows
‘Corpus’in collaboration with Hypha studios, 16th June – 16th July, Farringdon
StArt Fair, Saatchi Gallery, 11-15th October 2023
Group Shows 2023
‘Open Open 2023’ Chapel Arts Studios, Andover
‘Identity’ at Camden Image Gallery, London
Colours of Life group show, Wimbledon
Colour/Print/Poetry symposium and online group exhibition
The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
‘The Art Fringe’ International Women’s Day 2023 Exhibition, Monmouth Baptist Church
A Slash of Blue – Gerald Moore Gallery group exhibition, London
We The Human: A Quiet Blue Wall group exhibition, ONCA Gallery, Brighton
Open Artspace 2023, Old Parcels Office, Scarborough
Action Against Hate: Diversity & Religion Exhibition, The University of Westminster, London
2022
Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, 2023 Annual Open Exhibition, Conwy, Wales
Finding Space group show, OPEN Ealing Arts Centre, London
Southwark Park Galleries, 37th Annual Exhibition 2022, London
The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition 2022, London
SFSA Painting Open 2022, London
Football Art Prize touring group show, Touchstones Rochdale, Millennium Gallery Sheffield and Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.
Cluster Contemporary Art Fair, Oxo Tower Wharf, London
A Letter In Mind 2022: The National Brain Appeal
Flora and Fauna exhibition, Bromsgrove (My painting ‘The River’ was Awarded 1st place winner in the Painting category.)
Artvocate – Not On Paper group show, London
The Lido Open 2022, Margate
The Function Suite group show ‘Come One, Come All’, Stratford
International Women’s day group show – ‘Before the moon I am’ Hoxton Arches
Skin of Your Teeth, group show at The Crypt Gallery, Euston
Whirl-Bounce-Sway, group show at Safe house 1, Peckham
2021
Slade 150: Past, Present, Future group show, Octagon gallery, UCL
London Grads Now. 21 Saatchi Gallery, London
Tsinghua International Conference on Art and Design Education online group show, China
Refuge 50th Anniversary auction, Bonhams, London
Asia Triennial Manchester 2021
A Letter in Mind, for The National Brain Trust, online group show
Mental Health Exhibition group show @ Well Space Hackney, London
UTOPIA ECOFeminism Festival, London
‘I Matter’ group exhibition, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery and Wells Maltings
Group show, Shortlist for the Ashurst Emerging Art prize
Distanced Domestic group show, London
Slade Degree show, London
The Virus Who Came To Tea, online group show
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium, Poetry shed/collage group show
Will you walk with me once more, Tod Art gallery exhibition
2020
Being Human Festival 2020 ‘New Worlds,’ Mile End
ING Discerning eye exhibition
A Letter In Mind 2020: The National Brain Appeal
Art in the wood 2 – Clitterhouse Farm Pop-up Art Show
Windows and Mirrors : Transformation and Awakening during lockdown – Slade society online show
Superstore Academy Nida, Lithuania
Lizzie Donegan Exhibition by post project
Slade Student Fundraiser for The Black Curriculum Online show
Contemporary mood group show at Boomer gallery, Aldgate
Imaginations in isolation, Online group show
Virtual Riposte x Online group show
Solo show Holdrons Arcade, Copeland Park and Bussey Building
Story of all women, Tabernacle art gallery
Alternative group show, Menier gallery, London
Reveries group show, Espacio Gallery, London
It’s Not Just Black and White group show, The Water House, York
Slade Runner, group show at ASC gallery london
2019
ARTBOX.PROJECTS group show at Eduardo lira art gallery, Miami
Spaceship.Dungeon.Zoo, Slade collaborative group show at Studio Alvaro Barrington
Selected for ArtWorks Open 2019 @bagstrust
Folds group show at Lewisham project arts space
Solo show at The Annexe, Brick Lane art gallery
Nou Wave 1 group show, The Old Biscuit Factory
‘Synergic’ From Mexico with love group show, The Old Biscuit Factory
FUBAR group exhibition at The Crypt Gallery in Euston road, London
SWISSARTEXPO The Artbox.project Zurich, digital walk of art
The ESOP group show at Mile end art pavilion, London
2018
Karamel Vegan space and gallery, London
What is DRAWing? 10 years of DRAW- RCA, Triforium gallery, London
2017
What now show, Centre 4 Recent Drawing, London
DRAW show, Hockney gallery, RCA, London
2016
RDP symposium/Show, Darwin, RCA, London
Ridley road records, Doomed gallery, Dalston
Two pages exhibition, London
The Other, Feminist exhibition, Darwin building, RCA, London
2014
Central Saint Martins BA degree show, CSM, London
Central Saint Martins WIP show, Blackall Studios, London
2013
Blueprint gallery space, London
Publications and Interviews
https://www.altiba9.com/artist-interviews/latifah-a-stranack-female-empowerment-identity-painting
The Other Art Fair, 9-12 March
London Artists In I Matter Touring Exhibition Say Why They Matter
ART BREATH creative voices
http://www.artbreath.org/stories-made-in-art/paintings
NCA and Slade Print pals collaboration
Solo Projects London magazine issue 2
Artists Responding To… Issue 3 zine
Spring 2020 issue – Persephone: The Harvard Undergraduate Classics journal
The FLUX Review Magazine
Minelgaite, P (ed). (2019) House of Common Affairs: The Fourth Estate Utopias. Journal #1, 2019. London : House of Common Affairs
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