1989-1987
Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK [Higher Diploma in Fine Art]

1986-1983
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, London, UK [B.A. Fine Art]

1983-1982
Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, UK [Art Foundation]

2003
ICP Infinity Award for Art, New York, USA

2002
DAAD, Artist-in-Residence 2002, Berlin, Germany

2001
EAST International, Norwich, UK
Sciart, Artist/Scientist collaboration, UK
London Arts, Combined Arts, London, UK

1999
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists, UK

1989
Julian Sullivan Award, Slade School of Art, London, UK
Coopers & Lybrand award for the most outstanding work in any medium by artists under the age of
35, Whitechapel 1989 Open, London, UK

2006
Zarina Bhimji, Haunch of Venison, London, UK

2004
Zarina Bhimji, Archive Season, inIVA, London, UK

2003
Matrix 150, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA
Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK (catalogue)

2001
Talwar Gallery, New York, USA

1998
Cleaning the Garden, Harewood House, Terrace Gallery, Leeds, UK

1995
Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

1992
I will always be here, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; UK tour

1989
Tom Allen Community Art Centre, London, UK

2006
Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, International Center of
Photography, New York, USA

2005
50 Years of Documenta 1965-2005, Kassel, Germany
British Art Show 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; UK tour
Experiments with Truth, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA

2004
strangerthanfiction, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
In Our Time - Works from the Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2003
Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Fault Lines, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany

2001
The Short Century, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; PS1, New York, USA
East 2001, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK

1997
The Quick and the Dead: Artists and Anatomy, Hayward Gallery, London, UK; UK tour
No place (like home), Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis, USA
Public Relations, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Life’s Little Necessities, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Cape Town, South Africa
Photo 98: UK year of Photography & the Electronic Image, Leeds, UK; European tour
Strange Day, Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
British Contemporary Photography, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Inserts, collaboration with QJM Magazine and Lab, Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford, UK
Out of India, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

1996
In/Sight, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

1995
The Impossible Science of Being, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK

1994
Revir/Territory, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Inaugural exhibition, inIVA, London, UK

1993
Antwerp '93, MUHKA Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

1992
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Critical Decade, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

1991
European Photography Award 1991, Berlin, Germany
A Place for Art? 2, The Showroom, London, UK

1990
Selections 5: Biennial exhibition from Polaroid Collection, Photokina '90, Cologne, Germany;
international tour
Intimate Distance, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK; UK tour
Fabled Territories: New Asian Photography in Britain, Leeds City Galleries, UK; Viewpoint
Photography Gallery, Salford, UK; UK tour
The women in my life, Acton community workshop, London, UK; UK tour
In Focus, Horizon Art Gallery, London, UK
From object to image: Photo sculpture, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, UK
Black Markets, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK; UK tour
Shocks to the System '90s Political Art, South Bank Centre, London, UK

1989
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; UK tour

1988
The Essential BLACK ART, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK; UK tour
Insights, Battersea District Library, London, UK

1987
Dislocation, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
The Devil's Feast, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK
The Image Employed: The Use of Narrative in Black Art, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
The South London Open Exhibition, South London Art Gallery, London, UK
Black Women Photographers, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

1986
Darshan, Camerawork, London, UK; UK tour
From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; UK tour
Jagrati, Greenwich Peoples Gallery, London, UK

1985
Mirror Reflecting Darkly, Brixton Gallery, London, UK
Struggle & Success, Jubilee Garden, London, UK
Artists Against Apartheid, South Bank, London, UK
F Stops, Chelsea School of Art, London, UK

Arts Council Collection, London, UK
Cartwight Hall Bradford Art, Galleries & Museums, Bradford, UK
The Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Charing Cross Hospital/Public Art Development Trust, London, UK
The Meg collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK
Government Art Collection, UK
Jyll Bradly & Helena Goldwater, UK (private)
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
New Hall, Cambridge, UK
Polaroid International Collection, Germany
South London Art Gallery, London, UK
Tate, London, UK
Tracy Hodgson, London, UK (private)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA