Dr Haley Morris-Cafiero

Job: Associate Professor, Subject Leader for Visual Arts

School/department: School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0) 116 257 6275

E: haley.morris-cafiero@dmu.ac.uk

 

Personal profile

Part performer, part artist, part provocateur, Haley Morris-Cafiero uses her photography as an activist voice to fight discrimination and social invisibility. Morris-Cafiero’s works have been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions around the world, and have been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines and viral online including Le Monde, New York Times and Salon. Born in Atlanta, she is a graduate of the University of North Florida, where she earned a BA in Photography and a BFA in Ceramics in 1999. Nominated for the Prix Pictet in 2014 and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (longlist) in 2021 and a 2020 BMW Residency at the GOEBBLINS finalist, Morris-Cafiero holds a MFA from the University of Arizona in Art. The Magenta Foundation published her monograph, The Watchers, in 2015 and Fall Line Press published her second monograph, The Bully Pulpit, in 2019. Her work is included in the 2021 publication Photography – A Feminist History by Emma Lewis published by Tate. Morris-Cafiero is represented by TJ Boulting Gallery in London and is an Associate Professor and Subject Leader of Visual Arts at De Montfort University. She earned her practice based PhD from Westminster University in 2023.

Research group affiliations

  • Institute of Art and Design
  • Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT)

Publications and outputs

  • Morris-Cafiero, H. (2019). The Bully Pulpit. Atlanta, Fall Line Press.
  • Morris-Cafiero, H. (2015). The Watchers. Toronto: The Magenta Foundation.

Research interests/expertise

  • AI intersection with art
  • Performance art
  • Performative photography
  • Immersive art experiences
  • Augmented reality

Areas of teaching

  • Professional practices in the visual arts
  • Experimental methodologies in visual arts
  • Photography
  • Fine art

Qualifications

  • 2023 University of Westminster, London, UK
    Practice-based PhD
    Title of thesis: Reversing the Weapons: recuperating the marginalised by with performative photography
  • 2003 University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
    M.F.A. in Art - concentrations in ceramics, photography and printmaking
  • 1999 University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
    B.F.A. in Ceramics
    B.A. in Photography

Courses taught

  • BA (Hons) Fine Art
  • BA (Hons) Photography
  • MA in Contemporary Art Practice

Honours and awards

  • 2023 Grand Prix Images Vevey – longlist
  • 2022 Genesis Foundation Kickstarter Grant – for TRACE Mentorship Programme
  • 2020 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize (longlist)
  • Arts Council Northern Ireland Artist’s Emergency Grant
  • BMW Residency at the GOEBBLINS - Finalist
  • 2019 neo:ArtPrize Finalist
  • 2017 Les Recontres d’ Arles Portfolio Prize – Honorable Mention
  • 2016 Fulbright Scholar Fellowship Finalist
  • 2015 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition – Smithsonian Museum (semifinalist)
  • 2014 Prix Virginia (finalist)
  • Renaissance Prize (finalist)
  • 2013 Prix Pictet (nominee)

Case studies

  • Duberman, Amanda, “Photographer Mocks Fat-Shaming Trolls And Turns their Comments into Art,” Huffington Post, December 4, 2018.
  • Nieves, Evelyn, “They Body-Shamed Her Online. Then This Photographer Struck Back,” The New York Times, September 20, 2018.