Art Resume
Work
2013 - 2020 Artist Curator Design - Forbes Projects
1999 - 2001 Visual Arts Officer, EMACA (East Midlands African Caribbean Arts), Nottingham
2003 - 2020 Voluntary work - Chair of the Trustees & Directors of Primary, trading as Nottingham Studios , Nottingham see link www.weareprimary.org
http://www.weareprimary.org/people/michael-forbes/
Education
2018 - 2020 Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture
2015 - 2016 Progressive Property - VIP Programme, mentoring with Rob Moore and Mark Homer
2016 White Box Property Solutions - Property Developers Secrets with Andi Cooke and Lloyd Girardi
2009 - 2011 Landmark Education - Curriculum for Living
1995 - 1998 Nottingham Trent University, BA (Hons) Photography
1994 - 1995 West Notts College, BTEC Foundation Art & Design
Residency / Mentoring / Awards
2020 / 21 Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2018 / 20 Rose Finn-Kelcey Scholarship
2018 Nominated for the Paul Hamlyn Artist Awards
2017 Winner of Black Achievers Award for Arts, Media and Culture
2016 - 2018 The International Curators Forum (ICF), in partnership with University of the Arts London (UAL)
Mentor: Director of International Curators Forum, David A Bailey
2011 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York
2002 British Council, Jamaica
Exhibitions ( selected )
2021 Untitled - Pop Up show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
2021 Cut & Mix: Visual Representations of Black British Masculine Identities, The New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2020 London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2020 Tomorrow: London, White Cube Gallery, London
2020 Royal College of Art, Degree Show
2018 Reformation - Guest Project. Group show - Nadim Chaudry, Michael Forbes, Barbara Walker
2018 Diaspora Pavilion I Venice to Wolverhampton - Wolverhampton Art Gallery
2017 Venice - Diaspora Platform - Internation Curators Forum, at Palazzo Santa Marina. see link for further details
2016 Nottingham Castle Open - Winner of the Nottingham Castle purchse prize
2016 Untitled, Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate, Nottinghamshire
2015 Acquistion, Quad, Derby
2014 Since 1843: In the Making, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
2012 Opem 2, The Collection Lincoln
2012 Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography, Pasinger Fabrik Amerika Haus, Munich
2012 CPT:Time, History and Memory, Gallatin Galleries, New York
2011 Metropolitan Wonderland, ISCP, New York
2011 Souls Of The Diaspora, ISCP, New York
2010 Because I Can, Nottingham
2008 Next We Change Earth, The New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2007 The Redemptive Beauty Of Life After Death, The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2006 When Men And Mountain Meet, Gallery One, Zagreb
2006 Mostyn 2006 Open Exhibition, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
2003 Celebration Of Death, Photo Club Zagreb, Zagreb
2003 Drawing With Light Festival, Waterstones, Nottingham
2003 Shot In JA, Picture House Centre for Photography, Leicester
2003 Celebration Of Death, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana
2002 There Is No Redemption, The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2001 International Print Competition, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath
2001 Celebration Of Death, The Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham
2000 Black, The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon
1997 Recontres Internationales De La Photographie, Arles, France
Curatorial Projects
2018 Reformation - Guest Project. Group show - Nadim Chaudry, Michael Forbes, Barbara Walker. see link for further details
2012 Untitled, Primary, Nottingham
2010 Because I Can, 'Pop Up' found space, Nottingham
2010 Inconsistency Of Everything, Harminder Singh Judge, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2009 Strength Of Feeling, Sokari Douglas Camp, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2008 Next We Change Earth, The New Art Exchange, Nottingham
2008 Once Upon A Time In The West There Was Lace, Godfried Donkor, Yard Gallery, Nottingham
2007 The Redemptive Beauty Of Life After Death, The Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2002 There Is No Redemption, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham
2001 Blood Babies, Cryprien Tokoudagba & Elshaday Berhane, The Art Exchange, Nottingham
2000 Urban Recreation, Andrew Wright, The Art Exchange, Nottingham
2000 Straight Jacket For The Soul, David Brouet, The Art Exchange, Nottingham
2000 Fixation, Johannes Phokela, The Art Exchange, Nottingham
1999 Slave To Champ, Godfried Donkor, The Art Exchange, Nottingham
Media Interviews
Conscious Isolation - with Susie Olczak discussing my artistic practice as part of the RCA2020 see link to video here
Front Row with John Wilson - discussing Diaspora Pavilion I Venice to Wolverhampton at Wolverhampton Art Gallery,
February 2018