Curriculum Vitae
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Workshops +
Teaching
Associate lecturer: Central St Martins, University of London. 2019-ongoing

Associate lecturer: Goldsmiths, University of London. 2023-2025

Associate lecturer: Royal College of Art. 2020-2022

Sonic Stories workshop as part of In House exhibition at Studio Voltaire. Cell Project Space. 2024

Mentoring consultant for Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage (online artistiresearch residency). 2024

Sonic Stories and music workshop with incarcerated participants and their families. Part of the FACT commission. Buckley Hall Prison. 2024

Sonic Constellations with Gail Lewis and Naima Karlsson. Part of Languid Hands curation, 198 Gallery. 2023

Sonic Stories workshop with people living with dementia and their carers. Part of Cavendish Arts Science fellowship. Cambridge. 2023

Sonic Stories workshop. Part of Echoes of Dissent (Vol 1), Brussels, Belgium. 2023

Sonic Stories workshop. Wysing Polyphonic. 2021

Sonic Stories. Serpentine Projects commission working with the charity Micro Rainbow International. 2018-2021

Talbot Rice Gallery artist residents. 2020

How To Show Up: Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2018

Arte Sonica Amplificada: Oi Futuro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. 2018

Guest professor at Kunsthochshcule Kassel, Kassel. October 2017 – February 2018

Constellations. Up Projects. London. 2017

Series of three The 8-14 Studio sessions at Tate Modern, London. 2017

Two-day workshop for SLATE/Eclipse Theatre at York, Theatre Royal for Black artists from the North of England, York. 2017

Study Week at Wysing Arts Centre for 10 cultural practitioners, Cambridge. 2017

Solo Exhibitions
FOUR: FACT Liverpool, Liverpool. 2024 Part of FACT’s ‘Resolution’ programme

Trioesque: Bruckenmusik 27, Deutz Brucke, Cologne, Germany. 2022

Atlantic Railton Serpentine Pavilion, London. 2021

Version Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. 2021

And We’ll Always Be A Disco In The Glow Of Love Cubitt Gallery, London. 2019 

AGORA Peltz Gallery, London. 2015
Group Exhibitions
In House. Duo exhibition with Holly Graham. Studio Voltaire, London, 2024.

Black Melancholia. CCS Bard, New York. 2022

Sounds Like Her. York Art Gallery, York and Gallery Oldham, Oldham. 2019 -2020

Re: Respite. Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. 2019

The Range. Eastside Projects, Birmingham. 2019

Sounds Like Her. New Art Exchange, Nottingham. 2017-2018

Oh Adelaide! Music for Museums, Whitechapel Gallery, London. 2015

Oh Adelaide! S/N, The Kitchen, New York, USA. 2015

Oh Adelaide! Speaking Tongues at CCA-Glasgow, Scotland. 2014
Compositions Postcards. 2025

The Cavendish: A Tone Poem (collaboration with Marged Sion). 2023

Trioesque. 2022

Atlantic Railton. 2021

Version 1 & 2. 2021

Super JR: Second Phase: For Tectonics Festival. 2021

The Passage. Commission for Rewire Festival, Den Haag. 2021

Ode To The N.H.S. Commission for Radiophrenia 2020.

Remember to Exhale (collaboration with Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski) 2020

Super JR. 2019

Five Car Train To Fremont. 2019

Sound commission for Christian Nyampeta’s: Words After The World. Camden Arts Centre. London. 2017-2018.

The Crossing: Sonic Trail (collaboration with Gaylene Gould). Tate Britain, London. 2017

Sound commission for Beverley Bennett’s Amine film, London. 2017

Sound commission for Jimmy Robert’s European Portraits: PEER Gallery, London. 2017

Jimmy Robert’s Descendances du Nu (installation): CAC-Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France. Sound commission. 2016

CRTYRDGLLRYii: Sound Field (part of CCA 16), RCA Galleries, London. 2016

NSD/TSD: Commission for Art Basel Miami Beach. 2016

Jimmy Robert’s Descendances du Nu performance and installation at CAC Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France. 2016

AGORA: St. Georges, Bloomsbury. 2015AGORA: The British Museum. 2015

AGORA: The Rio Cinema, Dalston. 2015

Jimmy Robert’s ‘Abolibibelo’ performance at Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland. 2015

Filmography 5C Jacques Road: Part 1. 2026

Untitled: Our Wedding. 2022

Performance A-Z: Always Coming Home. Camden Art Centre, London. 2025

Decalé. 160DL

Cavendish Arts Science Presents: The Cavendish: A Tone Poem. With Marged Sion. Café Oto, London. 2024

Black Industrial/Noise. Iklecktik, London. 2023

Jessica Ekomane & Ain Bailey. Café Oto, London. 2022

The Listening Academy: “Performing the Transvoice”. Iklectik, London. 2022

Atlantic Railton: Live (with Imani Robinson). Serpentine Pavilion, London. 2021

Call and Response album launch. Café Oto, London. 2019

Today Is Our Tomorrow Festival: Kaiku, Helsinski, Finland. 2019

Jupiter Rising Festival: Jupiter Artland, Nr Edinburgh, Scotland. 2019

Supernormal Festival: Braziers Park, Oxford. 2019

How To Show Up: San Serriffe bookshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 2018

Glitch Shorts. Part of Post-Cyber Feminist International. ICA, London, UK. 2017

Guest, Ghost, Host: Machine! Serpentine Marathon. City Hall, London, UK. 2017

The EVP Sessions. Collaboration with Inua Ellams. Shoreditch Town Hall, London. 2016

Transfigured Night: Arts Pavilion, Mile End, London. 2016Two Steps To The Left: Wysing Arts Centre. 2016

Fractured Intimacies: a collaboration with Holly Ingleton, as part of Wellcome Collection: Friday Late Spectacular: Feeling Emotional. 2016

Our Word Is Our Bond: a collaborative score written and performed by Holly Ingleton, Johnny Pavlatos and Ain Bailey, as part of Space-Time: The Multiverse festival at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge. 2015

Here Is You And Not Me: MichaelDouglas Kollektiv dance company commission: Cologne, Germany. 2014

Music Releases Appears on Jimmy Robert’s: Call and Response. 2023

Call and Response 1 with Jockel Liess. Resterecords. 2019

Awards Awards For Artists. Paul Hamlyn Foundation. 2023

Freelands Award (finalist). Freelands Foundation. 2023

The Daphne Oram Award (Special Commendation). 2019

Awards For Artists. Paul Hamlyn Foundation. 2021

Residencies/ Fellowships Cavendish Arts Science Fellow, supported by Girton College, Cambridge 2022-2023

Congregation: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Dec 2018 - Jan 2019

The Leverhulme Trust Artist-In-Residence at Birkbeck, University of London. Project Title: Acoustic Geographies or Reflections on Assembly (AGORA). 2015-2016

Publications/
Radio/
Podcasts
Chapter within ‘Bodies Of Sound: Becoming A Feminist Ear’. Silver Press. 2024

On Access Via Versioning’ by Sarah Hayden. 2021https://wysingbroadcasts.art/discover/on-access-via-versioning

Night Cubes’ by Christabel Stirling. 2021https://flash---art.com/2021/07/night-cubes revisiting-uk-sound-arts-popular-and-club-histories/

Ain Bailey, Sonic Autobiographies and Pitch Sisterhood. 2021 https://www.asymptotejournal.com/visual/ain-bailey-sonic-autobiographies-and-pitch-sisterhood/

On Practice: Listening. 2020 
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/ain-bailey/  

Marina With Ain Bailey’. Worldwide FM. 2020 https://www.worldwidefm.net/episode/marina-with-ain-bailey-25-10-20  

Thursley with Ain Bailey. Episode 3. 2020https://morleyradio.co.uk/programmes/thursley-ep3/

Epiphanies column. The Wire. Issue 430. December 2019
Sounds Like Her’ exhibition catalogue. Beam Editions. 2019 https://www.beameditions.uk/store/sounds-like-her-gender-sound-art-and-sonic-cultures-by-christine-eyene-cathy-lane-salom-voegelin

Music From Memories’. Interview in The Wire. Issue 420. February 2019 
Education Goldsmiths, University of London. MMus Studio Composition. 2012

London College of Communication. ABC Diploma in Sound and Music Technology. 2008

Central St. Martins School of Art: BA (Hons) Fine Art Film/Video. 1993