(b.1985)

Darryl Daley is a London-born moving image artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. His practice critically examines the intersections of Black identity, mythology, and ideology within the framework of the Black Atlantic. Rooted in an Afro-Caribbean and surrealist perspective, he investigate Black matriarchal social structures, inheritance, and genetic memory, engaging with the concept of the immaterial archive. Through film and sound, the artist documents personal and familial histories, offering a critical exploration of identity, spirituality, and cultural continuity. This multimedia approach deconstructs conventional narrative forms, employing juxtaposition and collage to foreground nuanced discourses on Blackness and the Black body as vessels of ancestral transmission.

In this pursuit, Daley’s practice bridges film, sound, photographic materials and graphic design, giving birth to bold moving image works of a semiotic language.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 – What You See Here, What You Hear Here, NOW gallery, London

AWARDS

2024 – Circa Art Prize Finalist
2024 – Jarman Award Long List
2023 – NOW gallery Young Artist Commission

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 – Rifle On The Wall, Guts Gallery, London
2022 – Transforming Legacies, Black Cultural Archives, London
2022 – Children of the Diaspora, 1:54 Special Projects, Somerset House, London
2022 – Heart to Heart, Head to Head, Art Bypass Gallery, London

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2024 – Circa Art Prize, Piccadilly Lights Screen, London
2024 – Circa Art Prize, Kurfürstendamm Screen, Berlin
2024 – Circa Art Prize, Essilor Luxottica Screen, Milan
2024 – Selected 14 Programme, UK tour
2023 – TPG Friday Late: Home is Not a Place, The Photographers’ Gallery, London 2023
2023 – This Home, I Know as Memory, e-Anase Library, Ghana
2022 – PRIM x NOW Later: It Started With We, Now Gallery, London
2022 – The Black Diaspora Experience, National Gallery, London
2022 – Lynette Yiadom Boakye Tate Lates, Tate Britain, London
2022 – Art In* Film & Performance, Soho House, London
2021 – WePresents: Black Transmission, Online
2021 – For The Culture: A Festival of Blackness, Lyric Hammersmith, London
2020 – 4:3 Boiler Room, Online

SELECTED WORKS

2024 – Revival 24
2023 – Youlogy / No Ghosts
2023 – M is for Maudlyn
2021 – UNU (You&You)
2021 – Black Transmission
2020 – Black Soap