David A. Bailey

David A. Bailey (born in London in 1961) is a British Afro-Caribbean curator, photographer, writer and cultural facilitator, living and working in London and Nassau, The Bahamas.

One of 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] with Petrine Archer-Straw and Richard J. Powell at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (1995) 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.^[3] 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. David A. Bailey was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2007, for services to art.^[4][5]

References

1. ^ "David A. Bailey". iniva. http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/b/bailey_david_a. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 
2. ^ "Back to Black - Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary". Whitechapelgallery.org. 1975-12-15. http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/passports-great-early-buys-from-the-british-council-collection/back-to-black-art-cinema-and-the-racial-imaginary. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 
3. ^ "The Living Memorial". Remembersarowiwa.com. 2005-11-10. http://remembersarowiwa.com/background-2/. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 
4. ^ "[ARCHIVED CONTENT] Queen's birthday honours list 2007 : Directgov - Newsroom". Direct.gov.uk. http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Nl1/Newsroom/DG_068614. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 
5. ^ "HM The Queens 2007 birthday honours list" (PDF). http://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_068588.pdf. Retrieved 2011-05-25. 

External links

• InIVA
• Autograph ABP
• International Curators Forum ICF
• The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

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