Mark Sealy is a British curator and cultural historian with a special interest in the relationship of photography to social change, identity politics and human rights. In 1991 he became the director of Autograph ABP, the Association of Black Photographers, based since 2007 at Rivington Place, a purpose-built international visual arts centre in Shoreditch, London. He has curated several major international exhibitions and is also a lecturer.
As the director of Autograph ABP he has been responsible for initiating and delivering many exhibitions, residency projects and publications, as well as commissioning photographers and filmmakers.
Sealy has been a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art and many other institutions in England and abroad, and has participated in many national and international conferences, including the ‘Historical Perspectives on International Curatorial Debates of the 1980s and 1990s’ panel at the Shades of Blackconference, Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) in April 2001, the 2011 symposium on ‘post-racial imaginaries’ held at the University of Westminster by the journal darkmatter and the ‘Reframing the Moment: Legacies of the 1982 Blk Art Group’, curated by Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper in 2012 at Wolverhampton Polytechnic. He has also been part of judging juries for prestigious awards such as the World Press Photo competition.