(b.1985)
Darryl Daley is a London-based moving image artist of Afro-Caribbean heritage. My practice explores the intersections of Black identity and mythology within the context of the Black Atlantic, with a particular concern for the aesthetics of temporality and the materiality of analogue filmmaking. Through my work, I investigate themes of matriarchy, inheritance, spirituality, and cultural continuity, engaging with the concepts of hauntology and the immaterial archive.
Working across film projection, installation, sound, photography, and graphic design, Daley creates ethnographic and multimedia works that draw upon personal and familial histories, coded through abstraction, material assemblage, and liminal space. These works examine the layered relationships between memory, identity, and place, activating nuanced dialogues on Blackness and the Black body as a vessel of ancestral transmission.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – What You See Here, What You Hear Here, NOW gallery, London
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2025 – DYCP Arts Council recipient
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 & FILM FESTIVALS
2026 – Prismatic Ground Festival, New York City
2026 – Open City Documentary Festival, London
2025 – Ojos Caribe: Today’s Radical Act: Love, Part II, The Shed, New York City
2025 –
Traces #1 Darryl Daley + John Akomfrah, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam
2025 –
Third Horizon Festival, Miami
2025 –
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
2025 – Tint Library Programme Series, London
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
RESIDENCIES
2025 – Art Hub Studio Residency
2024 – ICF Studio & Research Residency
SELECTED WORKS
2025 – New World
2024 – Revival 24
2023 – Youlogy / No Ghosts
2023 – M is for Maudlyn
2021 – UNU (You&You)
2021 – Black Transmission
2020 – Black Soap