Current exhibitions & events
2024 Pavement Cracks online exhibition. September 28 to 1 November
2024 Mishcon de Reya exhibition – by appointment. Ongoing from June 2024.
Past exhibitions & events
2024 Art, Tea and Talks “In Conversation” at Burgh House, Hampstead. April 21
2023 December 8-10 ManchesterModern: Past Present Future at Victoria Baths, Manchester
2023 Screening of the film Shirley Baker: Life Through a Lens at Working Class Movement Library, Salford. December 7.
2023 28 September to 1 October. Saatchi Gallery British Art Fair, Centre for British Photography booth.
2023 Northern premiere of the film Shirley Baker: Life Through a Lens at Manchester Art Gallery. May 23rd. Additional screening June 4.
2023 London premieres of the film Shirley Baker: Life Through a Lens at the Centre for British Photography, London. May 18. Additional screening May 24th.
2023 Capturing The Modern Backdrop: Shirley Baker Photographing Salford. Featuring 15 works by Shirley Baker. Taking place at the Working Class Movement Library, Salford. 20 January – 21 April
2023 26th January – 2rd April. Inaugural exhibition at the new Centre for British Photography features a collection of exhibitions and photographers including Street Life – “Shirley Baker’s most celebrated works include her street scenes photographed around Manchester and Salford”.
2021 After Industry: Communities in Northern England 1960s-80s at Tate Britain, Spotlight exhibition till July 2022
2022 Postwar Modern at Barbican Art Gallery, London. 3 March – 26 June
2021 For the Love of Dog, Pour L’amour du Chien at The Kennel Club, Clarges Street, London. 4 November to 1 April 2022
2020 How We Were by Shirley Baker – Museum of Youth Culture, London
2020 A Trip To The Beach, by Shirley Baker – The Photographers Gallery
2020 A Different Age by Shirley Baker – James Hyman Gallery
2020 Play Well – Group exhibition at the Wellcome Collection, three of Shirley Baker’s works are included
2019 Seaside – group exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Margate
2018 Shirley Baker: Manchester – Le Lavandou, Espace Culturel, Le Lavandou 83980, Var, France
2018 Shirley Baker: Personal Collection, Print Sales Gallery, The Photographers Gallery, London
2018 North: Fashioning Identity – group exhibition of Northern artists at Somerset House, London
2018 Here We Are – group exhibition by Burberry, London, Hong Kong, Paris
2017 Airport ’87 by Shirley Baker – Central Library, Manchester.
2017 Here We Are – group exhibition by Burberry, Old Sessions house, Clerkenwell, London.
2017 Women and Children; and Loitering Men by Shirley Baker – Manchester Art Gallery,
2017 On The Beach by Shirley Baker – Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2017 North: Identity, Photography, Fashion – group exhibition of Northern artists, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Waterfront
2016 Work, Rest & Play, by Shirley Baker – Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China.
2016 Punk, by Shirley Baker – The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2016 Women, Children; and Loitering Men, by Shirley Baker – Madrid,
2016 On the Beach, by Shirley Baker – Photofusion, London
2015 Women and Children; and Loitering Men, by Shirley Baker – The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2013 Looking Outwards, Gallery Oldham, Greater Manchester
2012: Observers: British Photography and the British Scene, Serviço Social da Indústria (SESI), São Paulo
2012: A Lowry Summer, The Lowry, Manchester
2012: Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham
2011 Retrospective, Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Salford, Greater Manchester
2007: How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London
2007: Louvre, Paris (Photographers Gallery)
2007: Myth of the North, Lowry, Salford
2000: Salford Revisited for the opening of the Lowry, Salford, Greater Manchester. Baker was the sole photographer twinning with artist LS Lowry – HRH The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
1997: Approaching Documentary: work of a Documentary Photography Archive. Viewpoint Gallery Salford
1996: Grazing – Photographs capturing the spirit of the street by Shirley Baker, Piece Hall, Halifax
1996: Manchester (Street Photographs) Photographers Gallery, London
1993: What’s age got to do with it? Cheshire Arts Services – Chester Cathedral and touring exhibition
1991: Grazing(London Street photographs): Cornerhouse, Manchester and touring exhibition
1989: Manchester Airport, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1989: Royal Manchester Childrens Hospital, Viewpoint Gallery, Salford
1989: North West Frontiers, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1987: Arthur Anderson: Celebration 21 years in Manchester
1986: Here Yesterday Gone Today, (Street photographs Manchester and Salford) A documentary photography archive exhibition supported by North West Arts. Opened at Salford Art Gallery, and toured nationally.
1986: My Face or Yours, Cheshire Arts Services touring exhibition
1963: Nine Photographers, Manchester Design Centre, Manchester
Events / talks
14 April 2024: Burgh House, Hampstead, London. Nan Levy in conversation with James Hyman, Centre for British Photography
25 January 2020: Talk at Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds “Through the Eyes of Shirley Baker” with Lou Stoppard, Anna Douglas and Griselda Pollock
11 December 2019: Talk at Tate Modern, London, “The Legacy of Shirley Baker” with Lou Stoppard, John van Aitken, Dr Sabina Jaskot-Gill