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Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva)

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About iniva 
iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is a not-for-profit visual arts organisation based in London. Since 1994, we have created space for Global Majority artists and communities, nurturing creative practices and expanding the ways we understand art, culture, and society.  
Our Vision 
Make art from a global perspective accessible to everyone. 
Our Mission 
We nurture, develop, and support anti-racist and equitable spaces that centre Black and Global Majority artists and their communities for creativity, wellbeing, and joy. 
The Stuart Hall Library is a specialised library that centres art and theory publications from the Global Majority, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx, and Diaspora perspectives. The library serves as the intellectual and social hub of iniva, its home. 
Named in honour of iniva’s first chairman and cultural theorist Professor Stuart Hall, the library holds a non-borrowing collection of over 10,000 publications, such as artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, journals, and zines.  
iniva's Archive, held in the Stuart Hall Library, documents over 30 years of iniva’s history in exhibitions, publications and event making, and being an agent for change, advocating for social justice through working with artists and their communities in order to diversify the mainstream of art history and education. 
Opening times: Tuesday – Friday, 10am – 5pm