London
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), is a British
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curator, photographer, writer and cultural facilitator, living and working in
London
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. Among his main concerns are the notions of diaspora and black representation in art.
Biography
Bailey was born in London in 1961. He became active in the Black British arts scene in the 1980s. A member of the D-Max photography group, he designed the catalogue for their 1987 show at the
Ikon Gallery
The Ikon Gallery () is an English gallery of contemporary art, located in Brindleyplace, Birmingham. It is housed in the Grade II listed, neo-gothic former Oozells Street Board School, designed by John Henry Chamberlain in 1877.
Ikon was set u ...
in
Birmingham
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. He also collaborated with the Sankofa Film Collective, advising on productions including ''The Passion of Remembrance'' (1986) and ''
Looking for Langston
''Looking for Langston'' is a 1989 British black-and-white film, directed by Isaac Julien and produced by Sankofa Film & Video Productions. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a ...
'' (1988).
In 1995, Bailey curated ''Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference, and Desire'' at the
Institute of Contemporary Arts
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. In 1997 he co-curated ''Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance'' with Richard J. Powell at the
Hayward Gallery
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in London and the
Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University.
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. He co-curated the 2005 exhibition ''Back to Black – Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary'' with
Petrine Archer-Straw
Petrine Archer-Straw (26 December 1956 – 5 December 2012) was a British artist and influential art historian and curator who specialised in the art of the Caribbean people.Richard J. Powell at
Whitechapel Art Gallery
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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". From 1996 to 2002, he was Co-Director of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive (AAVAA) at the
University of East London
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. Until the end of 2009, he was Senior Curator of
Autograph ABP
Autograph ABP, previously known as the Association of Black Photographers, is a British-based international, non-profit-making, photographic arts agency.
History
Autograph was originally established in London in 1988. Founders included the photog ...
, and Curator of the organisation PLATFORM's Remember Saro-Wiwa Living Memorial. He is founder and director of the International Curators Forum (ICF) and currently is Acting Director of the
National Art Gallery of The Bahamas
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in
Nassau
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Canada
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.
Bailey curated the exhibition ''Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now'', shown at
Tate Britain
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from 1 December 2021 to 3 April 2022.
Bailey was awarded an
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Sonia Boyce
Sonia Dawn Boyce, (born 1962) is a British Afro-Caribbean artist and educator, living and working in London. She is a Professor of Black Art and Design at University of the Arts London. Boyce's research interests explore art as a social practic ...