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Dr Ingrid Pollard MBE, comes from a community arts background and trained in print-making, film and photography. Pollard is a multi-media artist, photographer, researcher and lecturer. Pollard has developed a social practice concerned with representation, history and landscape with reference to race, difference and the materiality of lens-based media. Through her practice, Pollard uncovers layered histories of representation, making the invisible visible, revealing ‘what we always knew was there.’
Pollard has exhibited at Tate Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum & the Photographers Gallery, London, NGBK, Berlin, the Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York, and the National Art Gallery of Barbados.
Recent exhibitions; We have Met Before, (2017), National Gallery of Jamaica, Valentine Days, Autograph ABP (2017), Rivington Place London, Deep Down Body Thirst, Glasgow International, (2018), No Cover Up, Glasgow Women’s Library (2021), Seventeen of Sixty-Eight, BALTIC Newcastle (2019) Three Drops of Blood Thelma Hulbert gallery (2022), Art Institute of Chicago (2024), Being in Landscape; Futura Gallery Stockholm (2024), Spencer Museum, Kansas University (2025).

In 2019, she was a recipient of the Baltic Artist’s Award and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Artists Award. She was granted the Freeland Foundation with MK Gallery for the exhibition Carbon Slowly Turning, which was nominated for the  Turner Prize (2022). She was the recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Laureate Award (2024) and the Century Medal, Royal Photographic Society (2025).