Joy Gregory
Curriculum Vitae
Born in Bicester, England
Education
1986
Royal College of Art
MA in Photography
1984
Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education, Manchester Polytechnic
BA in Communication Art & Design
Selected Solo Shows
2002
It's a Girl Thing, British Council, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2001
Cinderella Stories, Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London
Africa Today, the Artist and the City, Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
Traces - Zelda Chealtle Gallery London
2000
'The Fairest Of Them All', Galeria Carmelo Gonzales Havana Bienale Cuba
The Amberley Queens, Byam Shaw, London
A Very Private View, Cloisters, London
The Amberley Panels, Pallant House, Chichester
1999
The Beauty Project, Pallant House, Chichester
Royal Photographic Society, Bath
1998
The Blonde. Metro Cinema, London
Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh
London Bodies Museum of London
The Glove Project, Fordsburg Artist Studios, Johannesburg
Memory & Skin Huddersfield Art Gallery, UK.
The Blondes, x-space, inIVA Internet Project
Lost Histories, Durban Art Gallery
Lightworks, Syracuse, New York
Lost Histories, National Gallery of South Africa, Cape Town.
Noordilicht Photography Festival, Groningen, Netherlands
1997
Belles at the Ball and Other Stories, St. Paul's School, London
Blonde Icon, Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada
1995
Orient/ation, 4th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey
Farewell to Shadowland, 198 Gallery, London
International Photography Meeting, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Instruments of Beauty, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK
Museum Africa, 1st Johannesburg Biennial, South Africa
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002
Artlink 2002 - Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2001
Childhood Memories, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Artslink 2001, Dambulla, Sri Lanka
2000
Brief Encounters, Melbourne Australia
Yale University Art Gallery Imaging African Art - Documentation and Transformation
1999
Cyfuniad International Workshop Plas Caerdeon, Bontddu
Darwin's Wall, Harlech Biennale - Wales
Darwin's Wall, Bluecoat Gallery [Liverpool Biennale]
Darwin's Wall, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
The Flower Show - Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
1997
Transforming the Crown, Caribbean Cultural Center , New York
Invisible Light, Museum of Modern Art Oxford
1995-6
Prints by Artists of African Descent, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1995
Heaven's Embroidered Cloth, NMPFT, Bradford, UK.
Internacional Grafic, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile.
1994
Furies, Fates & Graces, FNAC, Paris, France
Creating the Subject, Morley Gallery, London
1993
Recontres Noir, Arles, France.
1992-3
Who do You Take Me For, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
1991
Treading a Fine Line, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London
6th International Art Fair, London
1990
Autoportraits, Camerawork, London
1990-3
Ecstatic Antibodies, Impressions Gallery, York
1988
Women & Space, The Tabernacle, London
Residencies / Workshops
2002
Visiting Professor in Printmaking & Photography, University Witswaterand, SA
2001
Artslink 2001, Artist Digital Workshop - Dambulla, Sri Lanka
1999
Pallant House, Chichester [Residency]
Cyfuniad International Workshop Plas Caerdeon, Bontddu [Workshop]
Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts USA [Studio Visits]
Artist in Residence, Backwell School / Royal Photographic Society, Bath [Residency]
1998
Cyanotype Printing, Fordsburg Artist Studios, Johannesburg [Community Workshop]
Salt Printing, University of Durban Westville, [Student Workshop]
Gum Printing, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg [Artists & Student Workshop]
Artist in Residence, Fordsburg Arts Studio Gallery, Johannesburg [Residency]
1996-7
Head First - Shacklewell Primary School / October Gallery [Residency]
1996
Blueprint for Identity - Victoria & Albert Museum - [Workshop]
Cambridge Darkroom - Victorian Printing Processes
1995
Serpentine Gallery - Man Ray Workshop for the over 60's
1994
Holloway Prison- Signals Women's Photography Festival [Workshop]
Shapla School / Photographers Gallery - Spanish Photography [Residency]
Cultural Partnerships - HIV / AIDS & Peer Education [Residency]
British Museum / Institute of Education / Serpentine Gallery [Residency]
1993
Islington Arts / Hanley Crouch - Black Perspectives [Residency]
Photographer's Gallery / Serpentine Gallery - Landscapes [Residency]
1989
Serpentine Gallery - Shifting Focus [Residency]
1992
Serpentine Gallery - Flora Photografica [Residency]
Selected Talks / Papers
2000
Jane Alexander - Panel Discussion @ Gasworks, London
Dispensing Identities - Panel Discussion with Brook Andrews & Penny Siopis, London
1999
Work in Progress - Viewpoint Gallery, Salford
Darwin's Wall - Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
Cyfuniad International Symposium, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
Violent Incidence - Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Memory & Skin, [Guest Lecture] California Institute of the Arts, USA
1998
Printmaking / Process, Royal College of Art, London
Beauty & London Bodies, Museum of London
Memory & Hanging Stories, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Memory & Skin - The Process. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Memory & Skin - The Product,. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
1997
Work in Progress / Survey, Royal College of Art, London
1996
Photographers Gallery, Novas Travessias
Serpentine Gallery - Jana Sterbak
1995
Serpentine Gallery - Big City [Africa 95]
National Photography Conference [Derby] - Recent Work
Southampton City Art Gallery - Instruments of Beauty
Cardiff Institute - 1st Johannesburg Biennial
Serpentine Gallery - Rebecca Horn
Serpentine Gallery - Man Ray
1994
Nottingham Trent University - Survey of Recent Work
1992
University of Plymouth - Community Arts in the Recession
Pimlico Arts & Media - Self Portraiture and the Essence
1991
Photoscape 91, San Francisco - Photographer / Artist / Photographer
1989
National Photography Conference [Durham] - Constructed Images
Selected Publications
2002
The Black Female Body Deborah Willis & Carla Williams
2000
Amberley Queens - www.viacarla.com
1999
Arts 2000 - Photography & the Electronic Image
Forum 4 - Continental Drift
Portfolio Magazine
1998
Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg
Continental Drift - 10 Photography Commissions
Lightworks, Syracuse
1997
Creative Camera
British Journal of Photography
First Exposure: photo 98
1996
Autograph - Joy Gregory [Monograph]
1995
Lettre Internacionale: [Bulgaria]
Orient/ation - 4th Istanbul Biennale
Farewell to Shadowland
Internacional de Grafica: [Chile]
Africus - 1st Johannesburg Biennial
Some/times
Art & Photography - BBC / Open University [video & transmission]
1992
Critical Decade - Ten 8
1990
Ecstatic Antibodies
Awards
2002-05
NESTA Fellowship
2002
London Arts - Individual Artists Award
1996-7
The Arts Foundation / Barclays Private Banking Fellowship
1994
London Arts Board - Individual Artists Award
1991
GLA - Individual Artists Award
1986
3M Award - Colour Photography
Chesterton's Award - Architectural Photography
1985
RCA Minor Travel Award
1984-6
Princess of Wales Scholarship
Collections
Arts Council Collection
Government Art Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Commissions
2001
Africa in Europe - Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain
1996-8
photoArts 2000 - The Year of Photography
1995
P&O: The Oriana - The Tiffany Suite
1994
Autograph - The Instruments of Beauty