Sonia Boyce and Husband David A Bailey Got Married in 1992

Sonia Boyce husband David A Bailey is a British photographer, writer, curator, lecturer, and cultural facilitator who lives and works in London. 

He has been working as an Artistic Director at International Curators Forum. One of his main concerns is the notion of diaspora and his community representation in Art. He co-curated the most famous Art of the Harlem Renaissance exhibition with Richard J Powell at the Hayward Gallery in 1997. 

David's key co-curatorial work in the Caribbean has the BDVA Diaspora Visual Art in Barbados in 2009. 

He was joined by an editor and researcher, Louis Hartnoll, for the 16th series of 'Afterall' talks through personal accounts of the organizers. For this event, Sonia and Hartnoll discussed the Enigmas of Race, Difference, and Desire at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in 1995.

ICF and UAL present Diaspora Pavilion, an exhibition to be held in Venice from May 13 until November 26 at the Palazzo. ICA decided to open the two-month exhibition to include a series of artworks, performances, film screenings, and an extensive discursive program. 

David A Bailey Is A Director At ICF International Curators Forum

David A Bailey has been working as a Director at the international Curators Forum since 2009.

ICF is a network that meets to discuss emerging issues of curatorial practice in the context of key events in the international arts calendar. It offers curators grant and professional development opportunities and collaborates with national and international bodies. 

The program has been conceived to promote opportunities for curators to visit and participate in several major international art events to enable them to network and gain experience for their career development. He was awarded an MBE in the Queen's birthday honors list in 2007 for photography services. 

David And Sonia Boyce Married In 1992

Sonia and her husband, David, have been together for 31 years. The couple shares two beautiful children named Maya and Aarony.

Sonia is friendly, chatty, and disarmingly down to earth. She has been a political activist for a very long time. Despite her intense work schedule and preparation for her upcoming shows, she still supervises Ph.D. students as part of her work. 

Maya Bailey and Aarony Bailey are the two daughters of the power couple. Maya is active on social media platforms like Instagram under the username @mayyvobai3, where she has around 874 followers and follows 965 people from her official Instagram handle.

Maya is 29 years old and was born in London in 1994. On June 21, 2015, She shared a photo on Instagram where her dad David holding her while she was a newly born baby. She captioned 'been homies since 1994' and wished him a happy father's day. 

David's youngest daughter Aarony Bailey is also active on social media platforms like Instagram under the username @aaronybailey, where she has around 1.3k followers and follows 1000 people from her official Instagram account. 

Aarony follows in the footstep of her father. She also shares different types of artistic photos on her social media. Not only that, but she also has another Instagram account under the username @cinemacsm. The main objective of this Instagram handle is a new moving image festival coming to campus.

Sonia started her career as an artist at Crop Over Film in 2007. In less than a year, she resumes her own self-titled company in London as an artist from 1983 to the present.

Moreover, she joined as a professor of fine art at Middlesex University in September 2012. She primarily focused on Studio practice and practice-based research. Sonia is a Research fellow at the University of the Arts London.

In 2022, she became the first British woman to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale Exhibition. As a very young child, she often visited the art gallery alone. In 1985, she graduated from Stourbridge College of Art. Two years after graduating, she completed her drawing Missionary Position II, which was acquired by Tate two years later.

She has taught Fine Art studio practice for over 30 years in several Art schools and colleges across The United Kingdom.