Stuart Hall Library

The Stuart Hall Library is the special collections library and archive of Iniva (Institute of International Visual Art), in Pimlico, London, independent of, but located on the campus of Chelsea College of Arts.

[1] The focus of the collection is on British, European and American contemporary art by artists predominantly with an African, Afro-Caribbean, African-American, South Asian, East Asian, Oceanic and Latin American heritage.

The collection also has a specialist focus on contemporary art produced in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania.

It is named in honour of the leading Cultural Studies theoretician, Jamaican-British writer Stuart Hall, who was the founding chair of Iniva.

In October 2018, library moved out of Rivington Place, to premises leased from the Chelsea College of Arts in Pimlico.

Stuart Hall Library study space
Stuart Hall Library 16 John Islip Street London SW1P 4JU
Stuart Hall Library