Michael Bailey-Gates (born July 28, 1993)Michael Bailey Gates
Models.com. Retrieved June 6, 2017 is an American artist,

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. He was born in

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, and currently resides in

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. January 20, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2017.

Life

Michael Bailey-Gates grew up in Rhode Island where he worked an after school job at a photo studio.Satran, Rory
Michael Bailey Gates, One Boy a Thousand Feelings
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. June 16, 2015. Retrieved June 15, 2017. He continued on to receive his BFA in Photography from the

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in 2015.

Work

Photographer

In 2013 Bailey-Gates met photographer Ryan McGinley and became a

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of the artist. Bailey-Gates later debuted his body of work "A Horse The Rough" with New York Times in 2018. The pictures referenced early motion-study photographs "without the gender norms traditional to classical portraiture". In 2021, Bailey-Gates’ first solo exhibition, "A Glint In The Kindling", was hosted at The Ravestijn Gallery, in

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. Chantal McStay, in a New York Times Style Magazine review of the exhibition, stated the photographs on display "evoked the aesthetics of classical portraiture as they upend conventions of gender and beauty." This body of work was published as the inaugural book by Pinch publishing in 2021. In 2021 Bailey-Gates was the subject of

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backlash after releasing a self portrait commissioned for a Valentino campaign. The brand's designer,

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, condemned the backlash over the Valentino image. Horace D. Ballard, in Aperture Magazine, describes Bailey-Gates’ photography as redefining traditional portraiture through "queer, neoclassical portraits" and notes his specialties in

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and tableau photography.

Model

Bailey-Gates has modeled for the brands

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and CK OneIseman, Courtney
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i-D. October 29, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2017. as well as for the publications i-D,

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, and

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for an editorial in Vogue Hommes International. In 2016, Michael Bailey-Gates appeared in his boyfriend Thomas Whiteside's book ''Route 1, Mike and India''.Eckart, Stephanie
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''. October 8, 2016. Retrieved June 6, 2017.

Awards and honors

Bailey-Gates was listed as

's 10 young artists to follow in 2018. and in 2020 he was named one of Cultured magazines Young artists 2020.

References

External links

Michael Bailey-Gates' official website

Michael Bailey-Gates' Models.com profile

"Michael Bailey Gates, One Boy a Thousand Feelings" article from i-D
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey-Gates, Michael Living people School of Visual Arts alumni Photographers from New York City Male models from New York (state) 1993 births