David A. Bailey MBE (born 1961), is a British Afro-Caribbean curator, photographer, writer and cultural facilitator, living and working in London.
A member of the D-Max photography group, he designed the catalogue for their 1987 show at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham.
[2] In 1995, Bailey curated Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference, and Desire at the Institute of Contemporary Arts.
[2] From 1996 to 2002, he was Co-Director of the African and Asian Visual Artists Archive (AAVAA) at the University of East London.
Bailey curated the exhibition Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s-Now, shown at Tate Britain from 1 December 2021 to 3 April 2022.