David A. Bailey

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] He co-curated the seminal exhibitions Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary[2][3] with Petrine Archer-Straw and Richard J. Powell at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (2005) and Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance with Richard J. Powell at the Hayward Gallery in London (1997) and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Bailey has extensively written about photography and film. From 1996 to 2002, he was Co-Director of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive (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.[4] He is founder and director of the International Curators Forum (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.[5][6]

References
  1. "David A. Bailey". Iniva. Archived from the original on 7 March 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  2. "Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary". diaspora-artists.net. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  3. "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)
  4. "The Living Memorial". Remembersarowiwa.com. 10 November 2005. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  5. "[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.
  6. "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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