Solo Exhibitions

2008 "Man-Royal, Whickers and Zami" Goldsmiths University, (London, England)
1995 Pinacoteca Do Estado, (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
1994 "Black Bodyscapes' Aytoun Gallery, (Manchester, England)
1994 Huddersfield Art Gallery, (Huddersfield, England)
1994 Camerawork, (London, England)
1992 Erotic Rites, First Out (London, England)

Two Person Exhibitions

2009 " Familiar Strangers", Gallery of Modern Art, (Glasgow) (with Sandra Alland)
1999 " Anti-Bodies", Standpoint Gallery, (London) (with Sunil Gupta)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Photoshow, Leslie Lohman ,Gay Art Foundation, New York ,
2009 British Subjects, Neuberger Museum of Art, (New York)
2008 "Fellow Travellers", (Liverpool, England)
2007 "Fellow Travellers", Salford, (Manchester, England)
2007 G - Wise Arts Festival, (London, England)
2005 "Identity and Nomadism", Palazzo delle Papesse, (Italy)
2004 "Transformation", Manchester Museum, (England)
2004 "Hidden Histories", Walsall New Art Gallery, (England)
2003 "Phantom of Desire", Neue Gallery, (Graz, Austria)
2002 "Odalisque", Mafuji Gallery, (London, England)
2001 "Men's Bodies", the University of Nottingham, (England)
2000 "East International", Norwich School of Art and Design (England)
2000 "Sexmutant", Nunnery Gallery, (London, England)
1998 "Africa by Itself", Maison Europeene de la Photographie, (Paris, France)
1998 The Miniature Museum, Academic Medical Centre, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
1998 "Black Nude: New Identities", Tropen Museum, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
1997 "Kissing the Dust", Oldham Gallery, (Oldham, England)
1997 "In Visible Light", Museum of Modern Art Oxford, (Oxford, England)
1997 "Subjects of Desire", Konstack, (Stockholm)
1997 "Transforming the Crown", Caribbean Cultural Centre (New York, New York)
1996 "Prospect 96", Schirn Kunstalle, (Frankfurt, Germany)
1994 "Strangers in Paradise", Foto Institute, (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

Artist in Residence

2010 Street Level-Photoworks (Glasgow, Scotland)
2009 Gallery of Modern Art, (Glasgow, Scotland)
1998 Light Work Community Darkroom, (Syracuse, New York)
1998 East Moors Correction Centre (Leeds, England)
1995 Art media Centre, (Batley, England)
1995 NAFOTO, (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

Publications

2008 Vibrant Energy, Larry Cross, Tree of Life Press
2008 Treasures of Gay Art from the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Peter Weiermair
2003 Homosexuality and Art, James Smalls, Parkstone Press,
2003 Art and Photography, David Campany, Phaidon Press,
2003 Men's Bodies, Judith Still, Edinburgh University Press Paragraph 26, Number 1 and 2
2002 Black-Struggles over Race and Gaze, Hiroko Hagiwara The Mainichi Papers, Tokyo
2002 Art Tomorrow, Edward Lucie Smith, Terrail
2000 Reverberations, Jean Fisher, Jan van Eyck Academy
2000 Black Visual Culture, Gen Doy, and Modernity and Post modernity, I.B Tauris
1999 Anthology of African Photography, Edition Revue Noir
1998 The Passionate Camera, Deborah Bright, Routledge
1997 The Eight Technologies of Otherness, Sue Golding, Routledge
1996 Outlooks - Lesbian and Gay Sexuality's and Visual Culture
1996 Peter Horne and Reina Lewis, Routledge
1995 Fully Exposed: Male Nude in Photography edited Emmanuel Cooper Routledge, London

Catalogues

1999 Contact Sheet 101, The Light Annual
1999 Typical Men, Judith Still and Michael Worton
1999 10th East International, Norwich College of Art and Design
1999 Anti-Bodies: A Spectacle of Strangeness, Dylan Potter,
1997 "Kissing The Dust", catalogue essay, Simon Grennan
1995 "Black Bodyscapes" catalogue essay, Kobena Mercer

Features

2001 ' Shit Starter' SBC Magazine, USA, Volume Ten, Issue 1
2001 Culture and Camp, Number 73, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Talks and Presentations
2009 "We Live Here", Amsterdam Public Library
2009 "The Image in the Global Age???, Goldsmiths University, London
2004 "Portraits and Praxis, Goldsmiths University, London
2002 "Poetics of Provocation" CICES, Dakar Biennale, Senegal,
2002 "Poetics of Provocation" Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam
2001 "Playing with Bodies" Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, England,
1995 "Cultured Resistance" Black Photography in the UK, Huddersfield Gallery,
1995 "Inciting Desires", Fundacao Armando Alvares Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil,
1992 "Scene and Heard" Camerawork, London, England,
1993 "The Body Black" Centre of the Rainbow, New York, NY,
1992 "The Critical Decade", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England

CD ROM /Audio /Film /Radio

2009 We Live Here, MVS Radio, Amsterdam
2009 In This Our Lives- The Reunion -Topher Campbell (Dir), rukus! Federation
2009 London Liberationists, Museum of London
2008 People, Signs and Resistance: On The Front Line, 198 Gallery, London
2002 Issues 1 - Greenwich University, London, England
2001 Poetics of Provocation, Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1998 The Appropriated Frame - Autograph ABP Photo 98,
1997 Party-Line: Black British Photography Autograph ABP
1997 Kissing The Dust- Interview, Huddersfield Art Gallery
1995 The Homecoming - Topher Campbell (Dir), Arts Council of England,
1993 Recontres Au Noir, Arles Photographic Festival, France

Other

2009 Curator of We Live Here! International homo-lesbian information archive, Amsterdam
2008 Curator of Outside Edge, Museum in Docklands, London
2006 Curator of Queens Jewels, Carnegie Library, London

Collections

Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation
Autograph, The Black Photographers Association
Neuberger Museum of Art
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow

Work held in private collections nationally and internationally.


Born in Huddersfield, England 1963
Education 2001-2002 Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Ajamu Resume - October 2010 [download CV as pdf]