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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Current Show - June 1st 2025: The Family Album at MAC - Midland Art Centre and Exhibition Catalogue
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Current books:
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Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography The Dodge & Burn Interviews By Qiana Mestrich.
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Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing. Eds.Deschler Canossi, L & Lopez-Diago, Z
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Forthcoming Books for 2025
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Black Earth Rising by Ekow Eshun
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Eyes That Commit: Black Women and Non-Binary Photographers: A Visual Survey. Ed. Renee Mussai
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Beyond the Feminine: The Politics of Skin Colour and Gender in Visual Culture by Ope Lori
Education
2009 MA Photography, (Distinction) London College of Communication
1996 BA (Hons), Photography, University of Derby
Solo Exhibitions
2025
The Family Album - Midland Art Centre (MAC), Birmingham
2018
Encontros da Imagem, International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Museu Da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.
I am Now You - Mother, Autograph ABP, London
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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
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Selected Publications
2025
Decolonization and Diversity in Contemporary Photography
The Dodge & Burn Interviews By Qiana Mestrich. Routledge
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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
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