Marcia Michael's practice challenges the presence of the black subject within the auspices of the canonical family archive and album.
Recent Interviews, Talks and News
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Coming soon: Eyes That Commit: Black Women and Non-Binary Photographers: A Visual Survey. Ed. Renee Mussai
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Book Launch ,Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain Ed. Joy Gregory
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Soulscapes - Dulwich Picture Gallery 14 February - 2 June 2024
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Life Between Islands Caribbean-British Art 1950's – Now: Art Gallery of Ontario December 6, 2023 - April 1, 2024
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Chapter in Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing. Eds.Deschler Canossi, L & Lopez-Diago, Z
Education
2009 MA Photography, (Distinction) London College of Communication
1996 BA (Hons), Photography, University of Derby
Solo Exhibitions
2018
Encontros da Imagem, International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Museu Da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.
I am Now You - Mother, Autograph ABP, London
2012 New Art Exchange, Nottingham UK
2011 The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Life Between Islands: Caribbean - British Art 1950s – Now, Art Gallery of Ontario
2023
1-54 Transalantic Connections: Caribbean Narratives in Contemporary Art, Christies, London
Beautiful Experiments, Photo 50 London Art Fair, London
2022
Process - Alexander McQueen London flagship, London
2021
Life Between Islands: Caribbean - British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London
Womxn of Colour art award exhibition: ALTITUDE, 198 Arts & Learning, Brixton
HATCHED21: Oxford International Women Festival, Photo Oxford
Mythical Mother - Spilt Milk Online Gallery: September 2021
2020
Chlorophilia of light and the vegetational, APT Gallery , London
2019
Showing Up, TEDx London Women, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Femmes Feroces: Material Life X Femmes Noires, The Contemporary Arts Centre, New Orleans, USA
Portraits of Passage:MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora (Pan-Africa) at The 12th edition of the Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography at the Musée National du Mali, Africa
RedHooks labs, Labs New Artist III, New York, USA (cat)
2018
Relating Narratives – A Common World of Women: The Horse Hospital, London
2017
UICA, Here+Now Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Michigan, USA
2016
Women Made Gallery, Abandoned Margins: Policing the Black Female Body, Chicago, USA
Flowers Gallery, Small is beautiful XXXIII, Cork Street, London
2015
Flowers Gallery, Small is beautiful XXXIII, Cork Street, London
Black History Festival Chelsea Exhibition, UAL, London
Uncertain States 2015, Art Pavilion, Mile End, London (cat)
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield (cat)
2014
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London (cat)
Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries (cat)
2013
Flowers East Gallery, Small Is Beautiful
Women Made Gallery, The Photographic Self, USA
2012
The World in London –Olympic Games, London
2011
Lens Culture Exposure Awards exhibition, Paris, France (cat)
FotoFest's fall 2011exhibition, International Discoveries III, Houston, Texas, USA (cat)
Uncertain States Exhibition 2011, East Gallery, London (cat)
Lens Culture Exposure Awards exhibition, New York, USA (cat)
FotoVisura Pavilion -New York Photo Festival, Dumbo, USA
Lens Culture Exposure Awards exhibition, San Francisco, USA (cat)
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010, Sunderland (cat)
2010
Panos pictures – contact Edition projection Hoxton London
The IPA Best of Show, Splashlight studios Soho NY (cat)
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010, London (cat)
Rhubarb Rhubarb Hungry Bursary Show, Flowers East Gallery, London
Shoebox award Short-listers, Oblong Gallery, London
Rhubarb Rhubarb Hungry Bursary Show, Rhubarb East gallery, Birmingham (cat)
Selected Publications
2024
Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain, Mack 2024
2022
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing, Leuven University Press.
PROCESS | Alexander McQueen Pre-Autumn/Winter 2022
2021
Life between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s -Now, Tate Publications
2020
Photoworks Annual 26
Maternal Art Magazine (MAM) - Stay at Home
2018
Encontros da Imagem, International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Braga, Portugal.
MÃE PRETA | BLACK MOTHER, Photography and Black Motherhood, Envisioning a Black Maternal Authority, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
Contact Sheet 192: Light Work Annual 2017.
MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora.
2015
Matter Magazine
How We Do Both: Art and Motherhood
Fellowships, Residencies & Awards
2020
Shortlisted, Womxn Of Colour Art Award - 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning
2019
Fight the power, Nida Doctoral School
RedHooks labs, Labs New Artist III,
2018
The Heroinic Hundred
2016
Light work Residency (Autograph)
2015
Honourable Mention, Hariban Award
2014
Honourable Mention, Portrait Award IPA (International Photography Awards)
2011
Lucie Foundation E-apprentice
Shortlisted for the 2011 Professional and Emerging Lucie Scholarship
2010
Spotlight Award in the 2010 FotoVisura Grant
Lens Culture International Exposure awards exhibition
Honourable Mention award in Santa Fe Photographic Workshops
Honourable Mention in the Lens Culture International Exposure Awards 2010
Finalist in critical mass Photo Lucida
Finalist in People: Family non-pro category. International Photography Awards 2010
Short-listed for 2010 Shoebox Award Oblong Gallery, London
Rhubarb Bursary award 2010