Lubaina Himid is a contemporary Zanzibar-born British artist working across media to examine racial identity and the African diaspora. Her wide-ranging practice of installation, painting, drawing, and printmaking seeks to champion the artistic contributions of black culture while highlighting continued institutional racism and erasure. One of her best-known series, Naming the Money (2004), consists of over 100 life-sized human cutouts. Made of wood and painted in an array of bright color, each figure in the series is given two names: a birth name and a slave name. “I’m not in the business of making work where I repeat the trauma,” Himid has explained. “My work is about attempting to belong, about understanding who we...