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’.
Dr Ingrid Pollard MBE (b.1953, Georgetown, Guyana) lives and works in Northumberland, UK. Pollard has exhibited at Tate Britain, Victoria & Albert Museum & The Photographers Gallery, London, UK; NGBK, Berlin, Germany; The Caribbean Cultural Centre, New York, US; The National Art Gallery of Barbados, Barbados. Recent exhibitions include: Connecting Thin Black Lines, ICA, London, UK (2025); Bold Women, Spencer Museum, Kansas, US (2025); Project for a Black Plant, Art Institute of Chicago, US (2025); Women in Revolt, Tate Britain, London, UK & touring (2024); The 80’s – Photography, Tate Britain, London, UK (2024); Soft Impressions, Dundee Contemporary Art, Dundee, UK (2024); Being in Landscape, Futura Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2024); Re/Sisters, Barbican, London, UK & touring (2023); Radical Landscapes, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2022); No Cover UP, Glasgow Women’s Library - Glasgow International, UK (2020); Three Drops of Blood, Thelema Hulbert Gallery, UK (2020); Seventeen of Sixty-Eight, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2019); Deep Down Body Thirst, Radclyffe Hall, Glasgow International, UK (2018); Valentine Days, Autograph ABP, London, UK (2017); We Have Met Before, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston (2017); Turner Prize, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (2017).
In 2019 she a recipient of 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 Turner Prize in 2022. She was the recipient of the prestigious Hasselblad Laureat Award in 2024 and the Century Medal, Royal Photographic Society in 2025.
Her works are held in collections including National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, UK; Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK; Haringey Council Archives, London, UK; Cumbria County Council, Carlisle, UK; Virgin East Coast Trains, UK; Arts Council Collection, UK; National Trust, UK; University of Bath, Bath, UK; London South Bank University, London, UK; GNER (Great North Eastern Railway), UK; Project Row Houses, Houston, US and Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, UK.
