Vanley Burke

*1951 / Jamaica

Solo exhibitions

Between Two Worlds

Vanley Burke and Francis Williams

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
12 Jun 2023 – 31 Dec 2023
A Gift to Birmingham

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (GB)
16 Dec 2022 – 31 Mar 2023
At Home

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (GB)
22 Jul 2015 – 27 Sep 2015

Group

Resistance

How protest shaped Britain and photography shaped protest

Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
21 Jun 2025 – 4 Jan 2026

with John Deakin, Fay Godwin, Henry Grant, David Hurn, Pam Isherwood, Steve McQueen, Tish Murtha, Keth Pattison, Humphrey Spender, Andrew Testa, Paul Trevor , Edith Tudor Hart
The 80s: Photographing Britain

Tate Britain, London (GB)
21 Nov 2024 – 5 May 2025

with Subrata Biswas, Tessa Boffin, Victor Burgin, John Davies, Al-An deSouza, Willie Doherty, Jason Evans, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Anna Fox, Simon Foxton, Paul Graham, Joy Gregory …
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

Saatchi Gallery, London (GB)
5 Nov 2024 – 20 Jan 2025

with James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Mohamed Camara, Kennedi Carter, Stan Douglas, Louis Draper, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, LaToya Ruby Frazier …
Fragments of Epic Memory

Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs

Portland Museum of Art, Portland (US)
6 Oct 2023 – 7 Jan 2024

with Anonymous, Sandra Brewster, Christopher Cozier, Jeannette Ehlers, Ebony G. Patterson, Paul Anthony Smith
As We Rise

Photography from the Black Atlantic

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (US)
17 Jun 2023 – 31 Dec 2023

with Raphael Albert, Henry Clay Anderson, James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Deanna Bowen, Jody Brand, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Elliott Jerome Brown, Mohamed Camara, Kennedi Carter …
SEEN NOT HEARD, PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHILDREN, 1865–2023

child portraits by over 50 photographers from Julia Margaret Cameron to present day

Atlas Gallery, London (GB)
18 May 2023 – 24 Jun 2023

with Eve Arnold, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lucien Clergue, Robert Doisneau, Arthur Elgort, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Bert Hardy, Chris Killip, Dorothea Lange, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Roger Mayne …
This Is Britain

Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
29 Jan 2023 – 11 Jun 2023

with Pogus Caesar, John Davies, Anna Fox, Paul Graham, Sunil Gupta, Chris Killip, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, Graham Smith, Chris Steele-Perkins
As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver (CA)
24 Feb 2023 – 21 May 2023

with Raphael Albert, Henry Clay Anderson, James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Deanna Bowen, Jody Brand, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Elliott Jerome Brown, Mohamed Camara, Kennedi Carter …
We’re not just passing through …

Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth (GB)
6 Oct 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

with Glenn Edwards
THE BLACK TRIANGLE

Photographs of the civil rights and anti-racist movements in the UK, USA and South Africa

Atlas Gallery, London (GB)
7 Oct 2022 – 3 Dec 2022

with Bob Adelman, Eve Arnold, Ian Berry, Pogus Caesar, Ernest Cole, Bruce Davidson, Doris Adelaide Derby, Neil Kenlock, Hiroji Kubota, Danny Lyon, Constantine Manos, Charlie Phillips …
War Inna Babylon

The Community’s Struggle for Truths and Rights

ICA Inst Contemporary Arts, London (GB)
7 Jul 2021 – 26 Sep 2021

with Forensic Architecture, Colin Jones, Neil Kenlock, Homer Sykes
SEASIDE: PHOTOGRAPHED

Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (GB)
24 Jul 2021 – 11 Sep 2021

with Jane Bown, Bill Brandt, Anna Fox, Marketa Luskacova, Paul Nash, Martin Parr
Seaside: Photographed

photography and the British seaside from the 1850s to the present.

Turner Contemporary, Kent (GB)
25 May 2019 – 8 Sep 2019

with Jane Bown, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Anna Fox, Susan Hiller, Daffyd Jones, Daniel Meadows, Martin Parr, Ingrid Pollard, Grace Robertson
Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

National Media Museum, Bradford (GB)
17 Mar 2017 – 25 Jun 2017

with Robert Adamson, John Bulmer, Roger Fenton, Fay Godwin, Mishka Henner, David Octavius Hill, Elmar Ludwig, Eamonn McCabe, Edmund Nägele, David Noble
The Place Is Here

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (GB)
4 Feb 2017 – 30 Apr 2017

with John Akomfrah, Zarina Bhimji, Sonia Boyce, Chila Kumari Burman, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Joy Gregory, Sunil Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Isaac Julien, Keith Piper, Ingrid Pollard, Maud Sulter
NO SUCH THING AS SOCIETY.

Photography in Britain 1967-1987

Centre for Contemporary Art, Warszawa (PL)
24 Nov 2008 – 11 Jan 2009

with Keith Arnatt, Ian Berry, Victor Burgin, John Davies, Peter Fraser, Paul Graham, Brian Griffin, Alexis Hunter, Chris Killip, Marketa Luskacova, Martin Parr, Gilles Peress …
True Stories

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham (GB)
17 Jul 2004 – 26 Sep 2004

with Peter Grego

Events

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair Marrakech 2026

1:54 African Art Fair, Marrakech (MA)
5 Feb 2026 – 8 Feb 2026

with Mustapha Azeroual, Sara Benabdallah, M'hammed Kilito, Alexis Peskine, Adama Sylla
Capture Photography Festival 2023

Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver (CA)
1 Apr 2023 – 30 Apr 2023

with Henry Clay Anderson, Roy Arden, James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Arielle Bobb-Willis, Deanna Bowen, Kwame Brathwaite, Sandra Brewster, Mohamed Camara, Kennedi Carter, Jorian Charlton, Michele Pearson Clarke …
London Art Fair 2023

Photo50

London Art Fair, London (GB)
18 Jan 2023 – 22 Jan 2023

with Heather Agyepong, Takashi Arai, Karis Beaumont, Celine Bodin, Jonny Delafield Cook, Susan Derges, Joy Gregory, Adaeze Ihebom, Adama Jalloh, Leila Jeffreys, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu …
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2015

CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2015 – 31 May 2015

with Yto Barrada, Edson Chagas, Scott Conarroe, Gabriel Cuallado, Sara Cwynar, Cristina Garcia Rodero, Alberto Garcia-Alix, Sarah Anne Johnson, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Henryk Ross, Mark Ruwedel, Larry Towell …