Joy Gregory

Joy Gregory is an award-winning artist specialising in photography, known for her exploration of identity politics and beauty culture. A graduate of Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, she has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally, participating in numerous biennales and festivals. Her work is held in major public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the UK Government Art Collection, the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and Yale University. Her major retrospective, Catching Flies with Honey, opened at the Whitechapel Gallery in October 2025 and was accompanied by a publication of the same name. She is the editor of Shining Lights, an anthology of Black British women’s photography from the 1980s and 1990s, published by MACK/Autograph.