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About British photo artist, Joy GREGORY (b.1959, in Bicester)
Joy GREGORY was born to Jamaican parents. She grew up Buckinghamshire and went on to study at Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art. Her techniques range from digital video installations to Victorian printing techniques. In her work she explores concerns related to race, gender and cultural differences in contemporary society.
(Photo)books by as well as with works Joy GREGORY
- 'Autograph' (1994); 'Objects of Beauty' (2004); 'Shining Lights. Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain' (2023)
Awards
- 2019: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
2023: Freelands Award. The Whitechapel gallery will host a retrospective of Joy GREGORY's career in the fall of 2025.
Exhibitions
- 1987: 'Polareyes: Black Women Photographers', Camden Arts Centre, London;
1990: 'Autoportaits', Camerawork, London; 'Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting AIDS Mythology', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK;
1992: 'Who Do You Take Me For?,' Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia;
1995: '4th Istanbul Biennal', Istanbul, Turkey;
1998: 'Blonde', Metro Cinema, Londo;
1999: 'Beauty Project', Pallant House Gallery, Chicester, UK;
2011: 'Lost Languages and other voices', Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK;