Joy Gregory is an award-winning artist specialising in photography who is known for her work concerning issues of identity politics and 'beauty' culture.  A graduate of Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art she has worked and exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally participating in numerous biennales and festivals. Her work is featured in both private and public including the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK Government Art Collection, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia and Yale University, New Haven.

She is the editor of ‘Shining Lights’, an anthology of Black British Women’s Photography in 1980s and 1990’s published by MACK/Autograph available February 2024.