Current exhibitions & events
2025 Crane Kalman Brighton Shirley Baker 80’s Faces viewing room online exhibition
Shirley Baker 80’s Faces
2025 Shirley Baker Street Photography, The Museum in the Park, Stroud. March 1-30 plus film screening of Life Through a Lens
2025 Tate Britain Fear And Freedom Shirley Baker work included in permanent collection display
2024 Pavement Cracks by Shirley Baker, online exhibition by Centre for British Photography.
2024 Mishcon de Reya Changing Faces of Britain exhibition. 80-piece ongoing display
Past exhibitions & events
2024 Art, Tea and Talks “In Conversation” at Burgh House, Hampstead. April 21
2023 Manchester Modern: Past Present Future at Victoria Baths, Manchester. December 8-10
2023 Screening of the film Shirley Baker: Life Through a Lens at Working Class Movement Library, Salford. December 7.
2023 British Art Fair Saatchi, Centre for British Photography includes Shirley Baker. 28 Sept to 1 Oct
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 at the Working Class Movement Library, Salford. 20 January – 21 April
2023 Inaugural exhibition at The Centre for British Photography featureing a collection of exhibitions and photographers including Street Life – “Shirley Baker’s most celebrated works include her street scenes photographed around Manchester and Salford”. 26th January – 2rd April.
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
2016 Work, Rest & Play, by Shirley Baker – Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China.
2016 Punk, by Shirley Baker at The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2016 Women, Children; and Loitering Men, by Shirley Baker – Madrid,
2016 On the Beach, by Shirley Baker at 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