David A. Bailey

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David A. Bailey, MBE (born 1961 in London), is a British Afro-Caribbean curator, photographer, writer and cultural facilitator, living and working in London. Among his main concerns are the notions of diaspora and black representation in art.[1]

Life[]

Bailey was born in London in 1961. He became active in the Black British acts scene in the 1980s. A member of the D-Max photography group, he designed the catalogue for their 1987 show at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. He also collaborated with the , advising on productions including The Passion of Remembrance (1986) and Looking for Langston (1988).[2]

In 1995 he curated Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference, and Desire at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.[2] In 1997 he co-curated Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance with Richard J. Powell at the Hayward Gallery in London and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. He co-curated the 2005 exhibition Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary[3][4] with Petrine Archer-Straw and at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.

Bailey has extensively written about photography and film. In 1992, he co-edited an issue of Ten.8 with Stuart Hall, 'The critical decade: black British photography in the 1980s'.[2] From 1996 to 2002, he was Co-Director of the (AAVAA) at the University of East London. Until the end of 2009, he was Senior Curator of Autograph ABP, and Curator of the organisation PLATFORM's Remember Saro-Wiwa Living Memorial.[5] He is founder and director of the (ICF) and currently is Acting Director of the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas in Nassau.

Bailey was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, for services to the visual arts.[6][7]

References[]

  1. ^ "David A. Bailey". Iniva. Archived from the original on 7 March 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Eleanor Byrne (2002). "Bailey, David A.". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. pp. 33–34. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
  3. ^ "Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary". diaspora-artists.net. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary". Whitechapelgallery.org. 4 May 2012. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ "The Living Memorial". Remembersarowiwa.com. 10 November 2005. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  6. ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Queen's birthday honours list 2007 : Directgov - Newsroom". Direct.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 4 February 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  7. ^ "HM The Queens 2007 birthday honours list" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.

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