Dr Marcia Michael is a London-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice, which is based in photography, challenges the presence of the Black subject within the auspices of the canonical family archive and album.
Email: marcia@marciamichael.co.uk.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
The Family Album – Midland Art Centre (MAC), Birmingham (exh cat)
2018
Encontros da Imagem, International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Museu Da imagem, Braga, Portugal.
I am Now You – Mother, Autograph ABP, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Repose – William Hine Gallery London
2024
Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery (exh cat)
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 (exh cat)
2021
Life Between Islands: Caribbean – British Art 1950s – Now, Tate Britain, London (exh cat)
Womxn of Colour art award exhibition: ALTITUDE, 198 Arts & Learning, Brixton
Selected Publications
2026
Eyes That Commit: Black Women and Non-Binary Photographers: A Visual Survey. Ed. Renee Mussai
2025
Black Earth Rising by Ekow Eshun, Thanmes and Hudson
Beyond the Feminine: The Politics of Skin Colour and Gender in Visual Culture by Ope Lori, Bloomsbury
Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography: The Dodge & Burn Interviews By Qiana Mestrich, Routledge.
2024
Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s-90s Britain, Mack
2022
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing, Eds.Deschler Canossi, L & Lopez-Diago, Z, Leuven University Press.
PROCESS | Alexander McQueen Pre-Autumn/Winter 2022
2021
Life between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s -Now, Tate Publications
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