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Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva)

Description

iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) is a London-based not-for-profit visual arts organisation that has, since 1994, created space for Black and Global Majority artists and communities by nurturing creative practices and expanding the ways we understand art, culture, and society. Guided by its vision to make art from a global perspective accessible to everyone, iniva supports anti-racist and equitable spaces that centre creativity, wellbeing, and joy. At the heart of the organisation is the Stuart Hall Library, named after iniva’s first chairman and renowned cultural theorist Professor Stuart Hall. Serving as both the intellectual and social hub of iniva, the library houses a non-borrowing collection of more than 10,000 publications, including artist books, monographs, exhibition catalogues, journals, and zines focused on Global Majority, African, Asian, Caribbean, Polynesian, Latinx, and Diaspora perspectives. The library also holds iniva’s archive, documenting over 30 years of exhibitions, publications, events, and advocacy work dedicated to diversifying mainstream art history and education through collaboration with artists and their communities. The Stuart Hall Library is open Tuesday to Friday, 10am–5pm.