Joy Gregory
{{Short description|British visual artist (born 1959)}}
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Royal College of Art
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Joy Gregory (born 1959) is a British visual artist.{{cite book|last1=Summers|first1=Francis|editor1-last=Donnell|editor1-first=Alison|editor1-link=Alison Donnell|chapter= Joy Gregory|title=Companion to Contemporary Black British Council|date=2002|publisher=Routledge|pages=130–131|isbn=9781134700257|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VfdpdZ9DwH0C&q=%22joy+gregory%22+donnell&pg=PA130}} Gregory's work explores concerns related to race, gender and cultural differences in contemporary society.{{cite web|title=Joy Gregory|url=http://www.autograph-abp-shop.co.uk/authors/joy-gregory|website=Autograph ABP|access-date=6 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822045648/http://www.autograph-abp-shop.co.uk/authors/joy-gregory|archive-date=22 August 2016|url-status=dead}} Her work has been published"Critical Decade: Black British Photography in the 80s", Ten.8, vol. 2, no. 3, 1992. and exhibited worldwide and is held in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Government Art Collection in the UK.
Life and work
Gregory was born in Bicester, England, in 1959 to Jamaican parents. She grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and went on to study at Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art.{{cite book|last1=Willis|first1=Deborah|author-link=Deborah Willis (artist)|title=Black Venus 2010: They Called Her "Hottentot"|date=2010|publisher=Temple University Press|page=225|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfU753omq8YC&q=joy+gregory+jamaican+parents&pg=PA225|isbn=9781439902066}}{{cite news |last1=Bakare |first1=Lanre |title='I was told my work wasn't Black enough': Joy Gregory on becoming hot property at last |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/jan/08/joy-gregory-hot-property-freelands-award-black-enough |access-date=8 January 2024 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=8 January 2024}}
Gregory's techniques range from digital video installations to Victorian printing techniques.
In 2019, Gregory was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.{{cite web|url=https://rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/honorary-fellowship/|title=Honorary Fellowship|publisher=Royal Photographic Society|access-date=11 May 2025}}
The exhibition Lost languages and other voices in 2011 at Impressions Gallery in Bradford was the first major retrospective of her work spanning more than 20 years.{{cite news|last1=Battersby|first1=Matilda|title=Joy in retrospect: Lost languages and other voices|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/joy-in-retrospect-lost-languages-and-other-voices-2141482.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220617/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/joy-in-retrospect-lost-languages-and-other-voices-2141482.html |archive-date=17 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|access-date=7 August 2016|work=The Independent|date=23 November 2010}}
In 2023, Gregory and the Whitechapel Gallery won the Freelands Award. The gallery will host a retrospective of Gregory's career in the fall of 2025.{{cite magazine |title=Joy Gregory and Whitechapel Gallery win Freelands Award |url=https://artreview.com/joy-gregory-and-whitechapel-gallery-win-freelands-award/ |access-date=8 January 2024 |magazine=ArtReview |date=30 November 2023}}
Exhibitions
- Polareyes: Black Women Photographers, Camden Arts Centre, London, 1987
- Autoportaits, Camerawork, London, 1990
- Ecstatic Antibodies: Resisting the AIDS Mythology, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1990{{Cite book|title=Recordings : a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British art|editor-first=Melanie|editor-last=Keen|date=1996|publisher=Institute of International Visual Arts and Chelsea College of Art and Design|editor2=Elizabeth Ward, Chelsea College of Art and Design, Institute of International Visual Arts|isbn=1899846069|location=London|pages=66|oclc=36076932}}
- Who Do You Take Me For?, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 1992
- 4th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey, 1995{{Cite book|title=Recordings : a select bibliography of contemporary African, Afro-Caribbean and Asian British art|editor-last=Keen|date=1996|publisher=|editor2=Ward|isbn=|location=|pages=67|oclc=}}
- Blonde, Metro Cinema, London, 1998{{cite web|title=Blonde|url=http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/1998/joy_gregory_blonde/joy_gregory_blonde|website=Iniva Archive|access-date=7 August 2016|archive-date=19 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819093544/http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/1998/joy_gregory_blonde/joy_gregory_blonde|url-status=dead}}
- Lost Languages and other voices, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, 2011
Publications
- Joy Gregory. London: Autograph, Association of Black Photographers, 1994. {{ISBN|9781899282005}}.
- Objects of Beauty. London: Autograph, Association of Black Photographers, 2004. {{ISBN|9780954281342}}.
Collections
Gregory's work is held in the following permanent collections:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London{{Cite web | url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/name/joy-gregory/33247/ |title = Your Search Results | Search the Collections | Victoria and Albert Museum}}
- Government Art Collection, UK{{Cite web |url=http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/artist.aspx?id=129755 |title=Government Art Collection - Artists |access-date=7 August 2016 |archive-date=26 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826112227/http://www.gac.culture.gov.uk/artist.aspx?id=129755 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=Joy Gregory|url=http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/g/gregory_joy|website=Iniva Archive|access-date=7 August 2016|archive-date=19 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819103117/http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/g/gregory_joy|url-status=dead}}
Honours and recognition
- 2019: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
- 2023: Freelands Award
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.joygregory.co.uk}}
- [https://nowgallery.co.uk/events/colour-as-memory-joy-gregory-in-conversation-with-kaia-charles "Colour as Memory: Joy Gregory in Conversation with Kaia Charles"], NOW Gallery, 11 March 2021.
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Category:21st-century British women artists
Category:Black British artists