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Joy Gregory
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Joy Gregory | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1959 (age 66–67) Bicester, England |
| Education | Manchester Polytechnic Royal College of Art |
| Occupation | Visual artist |
| Awards | Freelands Award (2023) |
| Website | www |
Joy Gregory (born 1959) is a British visual artist.[1] Gregory's work explores concerns related to race, gender and cultural differences in contemporary society.[2] Her work has been published[3] and exhibited worldwide and is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Government Art Collection in the UK.
Life and work
[edit]Gregory was born in Bicester, England, in 1959 to Jamaican parents. She grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and went on to study at Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art.[4][5]
Gregory's techniques range from digital video installations to Victorian printing techniques.[6]
In 2019, Gregory was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.[7]
The exhibition Lost languages and other voices in 2011 at Impressions Gallery in Bradford was the first major retrospective of her work spanning more than 20 years.[6]
In 2023, Gregory and the Whitechapel Gallery won the Freelands Award.[5][8] A retrospective exhibition of Gregory's career, entitled Catching Flies With Honey, opened at the gallery in October 2025.[9]
Exhibitions
[edit]- Polareyes: Black Women Photographers, Camden Arts Centre, London, 1987[10]
- Autoportaits, Camerawork, London, 1990[1]
- Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1990[10]
- Who Do You Take Me For?, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1992[11]
- 4th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey, 1995[11]
- Blonde, Metro Cinema, London, 1998[12]
- Lost Languages and other voices, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 2011[6]
- Catching Flies With Honey, Whitechapel Gallery, 8 October 2025 – 1 March 2026.[13]
Publications
[edit]- Joy Gregory. London: Autograph, Association of Black Photographers, 1994. ISBN 9781899282005.
- Objects of Beauty. London: Autograph, Association of Black Photographers, 2004. ISBN 9780954281342.
Collections
[edit]Gregory's work is held in the following permanent collections:
Honours and recognition
[edit]- 2019: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
- 2023: Freelands Award
References
[edit]- ^ a b Summers, Francis (2002). "Joy Gregory". In Donnell, Alison (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Council. Routledge. pp. 130–131. ISBN 9781134700257.
- ^ "Joy Gregory". Autograph ABP. Archived from the original on 22 August 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s", Ten.8, vol. 2, no. 3, 1992.
- ^ Willis, Deborah (2010). Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot". Temple University Press. p. 225. ISBN 9781439902066.
- ^ a b Bakare, Lanre (8 January 2024). "'I was told my work wasn't Black enough': Joy Gregory on becoming hot property at last". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ a b c Battersby, Matilda (23 November 2010). "Joy in retrospect: Lost languages and other voices". The Independent. Archived from the original on 17 June 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Honorary Fellowship". Royal Photographic Society. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
- ^ "Joy Gregory and Whitechapel Gallery win Freelands Award". ArtReview. 30 November 2023. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
- ^ Morris, Kadish (18 September 2025). "Interview: Photographer Joy Gregory on her new project, decades in the making: 'A lot of people I worked with on it have died'". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
- ^ a b Keen, Melanie; Elizabeth Ward, eds. (1996). Recordings : a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British art. London: Institute of International Visual Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design. p. 66. ISBN 1899846069. OCLC 36076932.
- ^ a b Keen; Ward, eds. (1996). Recordings : a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British art. p. 67.
- ^ "Blonde". Iniva Archive. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Joy Gregory: Catching Flies with Honey". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
- ^ "Your Search Results | Search the Collections | Victoria and Albert Museum".
- ^ "Government Art Collection - Artists". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Joy Gregory". Iniva Archive. Iniva. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- "Colour as Memory: Joy Gregory in Conversation with Kaia Charles", NOW Gallery, 11 March 2021.