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About iniva’s Archive

Housed in Stuart Hall Library, iniva’s archive is an ever-growing collection that documents the iniva’s history from its beginning. It contains a record of iniva’s activities, including exhibitions, publications, event making and it’s role as an advocate for social justice being an agent for change, advocating for social justice through collaboration with artists and their communities to diversify art history and education.

The archive includes 350 artist files with 4,500 slides, 1,260 artist ephemera files, and 20 files documenting iniva events and projects. It also preserves iniva's founding documents, including transcripts from iniva’s founding symposium "Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism," and board papers from 1994 to the present. Additionally, it houses papers and correspondence related to Professor Stuart Hall's role as the former Chair of iniva, materials from OVA (Organisation of Visual Arts, a franchise of iniva) initiated by photographer Sunil Gupta, written contributions from David A. Bailey, artist Isaac Julien, curatorial and research work by Hou Hanru at iniva, and research materials from Li Yun-chia's project.

Visiting iniva’s Archive

iniva's archive is housed in the Stuart Hall Library and is open to the public for research purposes. If you wish to access materials from the archive, please request access at least one week in advance. You can do so by scheduling an appointment through the completion of a study space booking form, which you can send to us via email at library@iniva.org.

iniva’s Online Catalogue

iniva's online catalogue is relatively new and still under development. Our archive team is diligently working to catalogue all the materials, but this is a gradual process. To explore iniva's complete collections, please consult the list of the archive collections. If you have any questions or need further information about our collections, please feel free to get in touch with us.