About
Part performer, part artist, part provocateur, Haley Morris-Cafiero uses her photography as an activist voice to fight discrimination and social invisibility. Morris-Cafiero’s work have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and have been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and viral online including Le Monde, New York Times and Salon. Born in Atlanta, she is a graduate of the University of North Florida, where she earned a BA in Photography and a BFA in Ceramics in 1999. Nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2014 and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (longlist) in 2021 and a 2020 BMW Residency at the GOEBBLINS finalist, Morris-Cafiero holds a MFA from the University of Arizona in Art. The Magenta Foundation published her monograph, The Watchers, in 2015 and Fall Line Press published her second monograph, The Bully Pulpit, in 2019. Her work is included in the 2021 publication Photography – A Feminist History by Emma Lewis published by Tate. Morris-Cafiero is represented by TJ Boulting Gallery in London and is an Associate Professor and Subject Leader of Visual Arts at De Montfort University. Her practice-based PhD thesis contextualises Wait Watchers, The Bully Pulpit, and Buoyant Force within feminist, sociological, psychoanalytical, and literary theories.
EDUCATION:
2023 | University of Westminster, London, UK - PhD by Published Works
2003 | University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - M.F.A. in Art - concentrations in ceramics, photography and printmaking
1999 | University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL - B.F.A. in Ceramics and B.A. in Photography
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
2023 I Arts Council England - DYCP Grant - funding to support the production of AI powered tools for performative photography that will visualise the discriminatory algorithms embedded in interview software.
I Grand Prix Images Vevey - longlist
2022 | Genesis Foundation Kickstart Grant, funding for the Trace Mentorship Programme
2020 | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation prize, longlist nomination
| BMW Residency at the GOEBBLINS, Finalist
| Arts Council Northern Ireland, Artists Emergency Grant
2017 | Les Rencontres d’ Arles Portfolio Prize, Honorable Mention
2016 | Fulbright Scholar Fellowship, Finalist – Belfast, Northern Ireland
2015 | Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian Museum (semifinalist)
2014 | Prix Virginia, Finalist
2014 | Renaissance Prize, Finalist
2013 | Prix Pictet, Nominee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 I Title tbc, Vasli Souza Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2023 I The Disobedient Body, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2022 | The Disobedient Body, Landskrona Museu, Landskrona, Sweden
2021 | Weight Bearing, Departure Lounge, Luton, UK
2020 | The Bully Pulpit, TJ Boulting Gallery, London, UK
2019 | The Visible Woman, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, Guangzhou, China
2019 | The Bully Pulpit, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2018 | Wait Watchers, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
2017 | Wait Watchers, UPI Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHIC FESTIVAL – Featured Photographer:
2022 | Landskrona Foto Festival, Landskrona, Sweden
2017 | Kaunas Photo Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania
| GETXOPHOTO, Bilbao, Spain
2017 | Mt Rokko International Photo Festival, Kobe, Japan
2016 | Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2016 | Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 | Mt Rokko International Photo Festival, Kobe, Japan
2015 | Ostravaphoto 2015, Ostrava, CZ
2015 | Format Photo Festival: Evidence. Derby, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 | Reversal of Gazes, Foto Forum, Bolzano, Italy
I Headstrong, The Centre for British Photography London, UK
| On One Woman, in the Vision of Authors of the Americas, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC:
| Future Food: Food for the World of Tomorrow, Verein Museum Arbeitswelt, Steyr, Germany
2021 | Opening a Dialogue About Body Liberation, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada
| Female Side of the Moon, Galerie Z22, Berlin, Germany
2020 | you and yours, JDC Fine Art, Gleneden Beach, OR
| Beg, Borrow, Steal,, London, UK
| Future Food: Food for the World of Tomorrow, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
| Portrait of Women by Women, SESI-SP, San Paolo, Brazil
2019 | Snap Judgements! The Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
| 209 Women, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2018 | The Gaze, EQUINOM Gallery, San Francisco, CA
| Women Now, Objectifs Center for Photography, Singapore
| Unseen Platform, Unseen Art Fair, Amsterdam, Netherlands
20§7 | Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now, TJ Boulting, London, UK
2016 | Touchstone, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
| Art of the South, Nashville and Memphis, TN, Juror: Chad Alligood, Curator, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
| Now You See Me, TJ Boulting Gallery, London
2015 | Intervals #1, le petit espace, Paris, France
2014 | Fotografische Selbstinszenierungen von Frauen, Hambrug, Germany. Curator: Denis Brudna
2014 | Renaissance Prize Finalists, Getty Gallery, London, UK
| 32nd Annual HCP Juried Membership Show, Houston, TX, Juror: Malcolm McDaniel, Museum of Fine Arts Houston
| Photoville’s The Fence – New York and Atlanta
PUBLICATIONS AND MONOGRAPHS:
2021 | “Photography - A Feminist History” by Emma Lewis, publisher: Tate Modern and Ilex Publishing
2019 | “The Bully Pulpit” publisher: Fall Line Press
2017 | “Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now” by Fiona Rogers and Max Houghton, publisher: Thames and Hudson
2015 | “The Watchers” publisher: Magenta Foundation
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2018 | Seymour, Tom, British Journal of Photography, April 2018.
2016 | Seymour, Tom, “Now You See Me: Exploring Body Politics at TJ Boulting,” British Journal of Photography, April 27, 2016.
2016 | Olya, Gabrielle, “Photographer Captures Strangers from Across the World Reacting to Her Weight in New Book,” People.com, January 7, 2016.
2015 | Orr, Gillian, “Photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero’s revealing projection looks at passers-by, looking at her,” Independent UK, August 7, 2015
TELEVISION INTERVIEWS:
2015 | “Photographing While Fat.” BBC News, December 13, 2015.
2014 | Schwiegershausen, Erica, “The Photographer Who Captures Fatb Shaming on Camera,” New York Magazine. Online. November 19, 2014.
2014 | Olya, Gabrielle, “Haley Morris-Cafiero Captures Weight Bias in Self Portrait Series,” People.com. November 18, 2014.
2014 | Griffin, Elizabeth, “These Photos Show the Disturbing Ways People Judge Overweight Women,” Cosmopolitan. November 7, 2014.
2013 | 3rd Annual fotoMAGAZIN Portfolio Issue "Une Photographe Travaille sur son Obesite," Le Monde.fr, May 8, 2013.
2013 | Morris-Cafiero, Haley, "Pictures of People Who Mock Me," Salon.com, April 23, 2013.
2013 | Bahadur, Nina, "Haley Morris-Cafiero, Photographer, Explores Fat Stigma in 'Wait Watchers' Series," The Huffington Post, February 7, 2013.
2013 | John Blackstone, CBS This Morning, CBS national, May 2, 2013.
2013 | Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani, "Fat is Failure," HuffPost Live, New York, NY, May 1, 2013.
SELECTED VISITING ARTIST LECTURES:
2018 | Objectifs, Singapore
2017 | Mt Rokko International Photo Festival, Kobe, Japan
2015 | School of Visual Arts