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2000 Polaroid Portraits: Maud Sulter, The Photographer’s Lecture, 2002. Studies in Photography.
2001-2002 Scottish Society for the History of Photography.
1998 In memoriam: Donald Gladstone Rodney, Portfolio Magazine, no 27.
1996 Black Codes: The Misrepresentation of Black Lesbians in Film. In: Mohin L. ed., An Intimacy of Equals: Lesbian Feminist Ethics. London: Onlywomen Press.
1995 Life’s a Bitch and Then You Die. [interview with Andres Serrano]. Portfolio Magazine, no 21.
1994 Biographical Sketch and Poems. In: O’Rourke, D. ed., Dream State: The New Scottish Poets. Edinburgh: Polygon
1993 A Woman Possessed: The Art of Lorna Simpson. Portfolio Magazine, no. 18
1989 ‘Freedom and Change’: She Who Writes Herstory Rewrites History: A Statement from the Elbow Room’. In: The Other Story: Afro-Asian Artists in Post-War Britain London: South Bank Centre (with Lubaina Himid)
1989 The Nature of Photography: Black Notes from the Underground, Feminist Arts News.vol 3, no 2.
1988 Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues, interview with Alice Walker. In: Grewal S. & others. Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women. London: Sheba Feminist Publishers
1988. Call and Response, Feminist Arts News vol 2 no 8
1988. Daufuskie Island: An interview with Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’, Feminist Arts News, vol 2 no 8, longer version in Ten:8, no. 31
1987 Notes of a Native Daughter. In: Ngcobo, L. ed., Let it be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain, London: Pluto
Posthumous Exhibitions
2023 Unschöne Museum, Zurich showcased Maud Sulter’s Museumseries, 1990.
2022 Revisiting the Work of Black Artists in Scotland through New Collecting, Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, 11 March to 3 July 2022.
2022 Scottish Women Artists: Transforming Tradition showcases the art of women working in Scotland, past and present, including two of Maud Sulter’s spectacular large exhibition photographic prints from her 1993 Syrcas series, Noir et Blanc: Quatre and Hélas l’héroine: Quelques instants plus tard, Monique cherchait sa brosse à cheveux, on loan from the Estate of Maud Sulter. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 9 April to 3 July.
2022 Maud Sulter: Portraits of a Family Tree focuses on Significant Others, the artist’s magnificent series of 9 large scale photographic prints enlarged from photos in her family album. Wardlaw Museum and Art History Building, University of St Andrews, St Andrews.
2022 Maud Sulter: Centre of the Frame features seven of the original 9 of Maud Sulter’s celebrated series, Zabat (1989), a series of allegorical portraits of stellar Black women creatives, cast as a theatre of the muses. Rochdale Art Gallery to 24 April.
2021 Maud Sulter: Centre of the Frame features six of Maud Sulter’s celebrated series, Zabat (1989), allegorical portraits of stellar Black women creatives, cast as a theatre of the muses. New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, UK. 4 September 2021 – 2 January 2022.
2021 Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema includes Maud Sulter’s Syrcas photomontages and works by other artists in conversation with the work of this radical film-maker. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 26 November to 20 March 2022.
2021 Maud Sulter: Remaking the Past. Barn Gallery, St John’s College, St Giles, OX1 3JP, open Friday, Saturday, Sunday 12-5pm. 15 October – 15 November 2021. This exhibition showcases works from Syrcas alongside her series Jeanne: A Melodrama, shown together for the first time.
2021 Maud Sulter: The Centre of the Frame, New Hall Cambridge, 4 September 2021 – 2 January 2022. Showcases Zabat, 1989.
2019 Get Up, Stand Up Now, Somerset House, 12 June – 15 September 2019. A major show “celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond”.
2018 Crossing Lines, FE McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Banbridge, Co. Down and Highlanes Gallery Drogheda.
2018 Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet to Matisse to Today, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York and Musée d’Orsay Paris
2018 Herstory: Women Artists, Touchstones Rochdale
2018 In Focus: Scottish Photography, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2018 On display at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Maud Sulter’s La Chevelure,
2017 Coming Out, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
2017 A Feminist Space at Leeds, Looking Back to Think Forward, Project Space, University of Leeds
2017 Maud Sulter, Museum, FIAC, Paris
2017 AfroScots at CDEx, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada and Glasgow School of Art,2018
2017 The Place is Here, Nottingham Contemporary and MIMA
2017 A Still Life by Chardin, curated by Maxwell Graham for Lisson Gallery London
2017 On The Desert Island, an art project by Ting-Ting Cheng, Rivington Place, London
2016 Secret Agent, curated by Hemera Collective for Guest Projects, London
2016 Maud Sulter: Passion, Impressions Gallery, Bradford
2016 The 1980s; Today’s Beginnings, van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2016 Maud Sulter: Syrcas at Arles, Les rencontres de la photographie, Arles Photography Festival
2016 Maud Sulter: Syrcas, Rivington Place, London
2016 Maud Sulter and Jeanne Moutoussamy Ashe, Oxheys Mill Studios, Preston
2016 Portraits: Black Women’s Lives, Making Histories Visible Archive, Preston
2015 Maud Sulter: Passion, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
2015 Maud Sulter: About Face, Hillhead Library, Glasgow
2015 Facing History: Contemporary Portraiture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
2015 Face Value: Portraiture from the Arts Council Collection, UK venues
2014 A Silvered Light, The McManus Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee.
2014 A Thousand of Him Scattered, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 Where We’re At! Other Voices on Gender, BOZAR, Bruxelles
2013 Looking in: Photographic Portraits by Maud Sulter and Chan-Hyo Bae, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London
2012 Seduced by Art, Photography Past and Present, London: National Gallery, Caixa Forum, Barcelona & Caixa Forum, Madrid.
2012 What We Have Done, What We Are About To Do, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow
2011 Thin Black Line(s), Tate Britain, London
Solo Shows
2005 Sekhmet. Dumfries: Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries
2004 About Face, organised by the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh and tour
2003 Jeanne Duval: A Melodrama, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 A Dozen Kisses, Dundas Street Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Scots Poets, Stanza at the Byre Theatre, St Andrews
2003. Edinburgh Types, Queens Hall, Edinburgh
2000 Plantation, Centre for Contemporary Art, University of Central Lancashire, Preston
1999 My Father’s House, Rich Women of Zurich, London
1995 Syrcas at Africus. Africus: Johannesburg Biennale. Johannesburg: Greater Johannesburg Transitional Metropolitan Council
1995 Alba, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow; Ormeau Baths, Belfast & Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
1994 Sycras, Wrexham Library Art Centre, Wrexham & tour.
1994 Plantation. Plug In, Winnipeg & University of Leeds Gallery
1993 Proverbs for Adwoa, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
1993 Akwaba, Art Speak Gallery, Vancouver
1992 Maud Sulter: Photoworks 3, Royal Festival Hall, London
1991 Hysteria,Tate, Liverpool, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow & tour
1991 On Studies for A National Postage Stamp, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1990 Maud Sulter: Photoworks 2, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield.
1990 Akua Ma, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield
1990 Museum, Oldham Art Gallery,Oldham
1990 Zabat, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow
1989 Maud Sulter: Photoworks. [Zabat, Sphinx& Media Plays], Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
1987 Sphinx: A Black Photographic Herstory, The Pavilion, Leeds: & Black-Art Gallery, London
Joint Exhibitions with Lubaina Himid
2002 Speak English, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
1995 Word not Found, Galerie Palais Walderdorff,Trier
1990 Treatise on the Sublime, California State University
1989 – 1988 Gold Blooded Warrior, Tom Allen Centre, London
1987 A Room for MaSHULAN, with Lubaina Himid in New Robes for MaShulan. Rochdale Art Gallery,Rochdale
Group Exhibitions
2008 Black Womanhood, Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body. Dartmouth: Hood Museum of Art, Davis Museum and Cultural Center & San Diego Museum of Art
2006 Reading the Image: Poetics of the Black Diaspora. Chatham (Canada): Thames Art Gallery
2002 Encontros Da Imagem. Braga, Portugal
2001 Narcissus, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
1998 Memory Woman, Wellington Art Gallery
1997 The mag collection. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
1997 Transforming the Crown: African, Asian & Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996. Caribbean Cultural Center, Studio Museum Harlem & Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
1997 Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art
1997 Map: In Difference, Amos Andersons Art Museum, Helsinki
1995 Object/Subject of Desire, Konstfack,Stockholm
1995 Light From the Darkroom, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1995 Prints and Photography by Artists of African Descent, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1994 Revisions: Zeitgenössiche Fotografie aus Schottland, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich
1994 Different Stories, Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam
1994 From Beyond the Pale, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
1994. Memories of Childhood, Steinbaum-Krauss Gallery, New York and US tour
1993 Intimate Lives. City Art Centre, Edinburgh and UK tour
1993 African Themes, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1992 Women’s Art at New Hall, New Hall, Cambridge
1991 European Photography Awards, Künstlerwerkstatt, Berlin
1991 Shocks to the System: Social and Political Issues in Recent British Art, South Bank Centre, London
1990 MA Photography Postgraduate Exhibition, Derby Art Gallery, Derby
1990 New North, Tate Liverpool
1990 New Contemporaries, ICA London & UK tour
1989 Black Art: New Directions. Stoke: Stoke City Art Gallery
1988 Along the Lines of Resistance, Cooper Gallery, Barnsley & UK tour
1988 Sun Life Photography Awards. Bradford: Media Museum,
1988 This Sporting Life. Liverpool: Liverpool Polytechnic
1987 Whitechapel Open. London: Whitechapel Art Gallery
1986 Testimony, Pavilion, Leeds: & Camerawork, London
1986 Some of Us Are Brave, All of Us Are Strong, Black-Art Gallery, London
1986 Open Show, Black-Art Gallery, London
1985 The Thin Black Line, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1985 Creation for Liberation, Brixton Recreation Centre, London
1985 Blessed Are Those Who Struggle. Liverpool: The Blackie
1985 Blackwomen’s Creativity Project. London: People’s Gallery & Drill Hall
1984 Creation for Liberation. London: Brixton Art Gallery
Awards and Career
1982 Started the Blackwomen’s Creativity Project alongside fellow artist and friend, Ingrid Pollard
1984 Won an Arvon Foundation Residency (awards)
1985 Won the Vera Bell Prize for first poetry collection ‘As a Blackwoman’ (awards)
1990 Won the British Telecom New Contemporaries Award
1990 Won the Momart Fellowship at Tate Liverpool
1992-1994 Principal Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Fine Art
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