Iniva
Rivington Place
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 Location within Central London
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| Established | 1994 |
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| Location | Shoreditch, London EC2, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 51°31′35″N 0°04′46″W / 51.5263°N 0.0794°W |
| Director | Melanie Keen |
| Public transit access |
Old Street  Liverpool Street 
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| Website | www.iniva.org |
Iniva (which was formerly written as inIVA) is the Institute of International Visual Art, an visual arts organisation based in London that collaborates with contemporary artists, curators and writers. Iniva runs the Stuart Hall Library, and is based at Rivington Place, a visual arts centre in Shoreditch, in London’s East End.
During the course of its 20-year existence, Iniva has hosted and/or produced major solo exhibitions by significant British and international artists, including sculptor Hew Locke ("Kingdom of the Blind", in 2008), filmmaker Zineb Sedira ("Currents of Time" in 2009),Donald Rodney ("In Retrospect", in 2008), Keith Piper ('Relocating the Remains' in 1997 and 'Unearthing the Banker's Bones' in 2016), Yinka Shonibare ('Diary of a Victorian Dandy' in 1998) and Guyanese painter Aubrey Williams in 1998.
The institute has also raised the profile of many artists to a wider UK public, including Israeli conceptual artist Roee Rosen, British painter Kimathi Donkor, British filmmaker Alia Syed, Indian conceptual group Raqs Media Collective and British contemporary artist Joy Gregory.
Iniva was founded in 1994 with a remit to address an imbalance in the way culturally diverse artists and curators were being represented in the UK. Funded by Arts Council England and governed by a Board of Trustees, the institute has worked with artists, curators, creative producers, writers and the public to explore and reflect cultural diversity in the visual arts. Until 2008, cultural theorist and sociologist Stuart Hall was chair of Iniva and Autograph ABP.
Iniva's first director was Gilane Tawadros, followed in 2005 by international curator Sebastian Lopez, then the curator and cultural historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, Tessa Jackson, former chief executive of the Scottish Arts Council, and, from 2015, Melanie Keen, who was a curator at Iniva from 1996-2003, and most recently a senior manager at Arts Council England.
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