Moyra Davey
Moyra Davey | |
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Born | 1958 (age 62–63) |
Known for | Photography, video, writing |
Moyra Davey (born 1958) is an artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing.
Early life[]
Moyra Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] Davey received a BFA from Concordia University in 1982 and a MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. In 1989, she attended The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
Career[]
Since the late 1970s, Davey has built a body of work composed of photographs, writings, and video. She was previously a faculty member at the Bard College International Center of Photography Program.[2]
Select solo exhibitions[]
- 1984 – The Photography Gallery, Toronto // Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
- 1985 – Agnes Etherington Arts Center, Kingston, Ontario
- 1989 – Optica, Montreal
- 1994 – Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York // American Fine Arts, Co., New York
- 1996 – American Fine Arts, Co., New York
- 1998 – Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
- 1999 – American Fine Arts, Co., New York
- 2002 – Goodwater, Toronto
- 2003 – American Fine Arts, Co., New York
- 2006 – Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio[3]
- 2007 – Fifty Minutes, Goodwater, Toronto[4]// My Place, TART, San Francisco, California
- 2008 – Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts[5]
- 2009 – My Necropolis, Murray Guy, New York[6] // My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
- 2010 – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland[7]// My Necropolis, Goodwater, Toronto[8] // My Necropolis, lllingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Canada
- 2011 – Les Goddesses, Greengrassi, London[9]
- 2012 – Spleen. Indolence. Torpor. Ill-humour, Murray Guy, New York[10]
- 2013 – Ornament and Reproach, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver // Hangmen of England, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- 2014 – Ornament and Reproach, Murray Guy, New York[6] // Burn the Diaries, MUMOK — Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; // Camden Arts Centre, London
- 2015 – You're a nice guy to let me hold you like this. greengrassi, London // The Revenants, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam
- 2016 – Hemlock Forest, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway // 7 Albums, Murray Guy, New York
- 2017 – Empties, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne // Portrait / Landscape, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin // Hell Notes, Portikus, Frankfurt
- 2018 – Hell Notes, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld // "1943", Galerie Buchholz, New York // Bring My Garters/Do Nothing, experimenter, Kolkata
- 2019 – Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto // Les Goddesses, Art Institute of Chicago // i confess, greengrassi, London
- 2020 – Moyra Davey Peter Hujar, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (with Peter Hujar) // The Faithful, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa // Lanak/Obras/Works, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Prizes and awards[]
- 2004 – Anonymous Was A Woman Award[11]
- 2010 – The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award[12][13]
- 2018 – Scotiabank Photography Award[14][15]
- 2020 – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship[16]
Public collections[]
Davey's works are in the collections of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri;[17] the Museum of Modern Art,[18] New York; the Tate Modern,[19][20] London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[21] New York; the Art Institute of Chicago,[22] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[23] New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[24] New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[25] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[26] Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art,[27] Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Art Gallery of Ontario,[failed verification] Toronto.[28]
Publications[]
- Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Edited by Moyra Davey (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001). ISBN 1583220720
- The Problem of Reading (Los Angeles: Documents Books, 2003). ISBN 0974260509[29]
- Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays by Moyra Davey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). Introduction by Helen Molesworth. ISBN 9780300136463
- Copperheads (Toronto: Byewater Bros. Editions, 2010). ISBN 9780978078935
- Speaker Receiver (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010). Essays by George Baker, Bill Horrigan, Chris Kraus, and Eric Rosenberg, and an interview by Adam Szymczyk. ISBN 9781934105207.
- The Wet and the Dry (Paris: Paraguay Press, 2011). Edited by castillo/corrales and Will Holder. ISBN 9782918252115
- Empties (Vancouver: Presentation House, 2013).
- Burn the Diaries (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, 2014). ISBN 9780985337728
- I'm Your Fan (London: Camden Arts Centre, 2014).
- Les Goddesses / Hemlock Forest (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press, 2017). Introduction by Aveek Sen. ISBN 9780998632605
- Gold Dumps and Ant Hills (Berlin: Toupée, 2017). ISBN 9783981735710
- Index Cards: Selected Essays (New Directions, 2020). Edited by Nicolas Linnert. ISBN 9780811229517
- I Confess (Ottawa/Brooklyn: National Gallery of Canada and Dancing Foxes Press, 2020). Essays by Dalie Giroux and Andrea Kunard. ISBN 9780888849960
References[]
- ^ "Moyra Davey" Archived October 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Retrieved 23 November 2014.
- ^ "ICP-Bard MFA". International Center of Photography. May 16, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
- ^ "Exhibition : Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 2006".
- ^ "Exhibition : Fifty Minutes, Goodwater, Toronto, 2007".
- ^ "Exhibition: Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2008". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Murray Guy » exhibitions".
- ^ Exhibition : Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2010 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Exhibition : My Necropolis, Goodwater, Toronto, 2010".
- ^ "greengrassi — past shows".
- ^ Exhibition : Spleen. Indolence. Torpor. Ill-humor, Murray Guy, New York, 2012 [1]
- ^ "Recipients to Date". Anonymous Was A Woman. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "2011 Biennial Awards | The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation". louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Tiffany Foundation Names 30 Artist Grant Winners". Observer. February 23, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Moyra Davey wins $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award". thestar.com. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
- ^ S, Leah; als. "Moyra Davey Wins $50K Scotiabank Photography Award". Canadian Art. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Moyra Davey". Retrieved October 30, 2020.
- ^ "Moyra Davey | Kemper Art Museum". www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
- ^ "Moyra Davey. The Coffee Shop, The Library. 2011 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ Tate. "'Copperheads', Moyra Davey, 1990". Tate. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ Tate. "'16 Photographs from Paris II', Moyra Davey, 2009". Tate. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Search the Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Moyra Davey". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Moyra Davey". whitney.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Guggenheim Museum Archives". Guggenheim. March 21, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Moyra Davey · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Moyra Davey". www.moca.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
- ^ "Moyra Davey Biography". Murray Guy. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
- ^ "The Problem of Reading available online at Murray Guy Gallery's website".
- 1958 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian women artists
- 21st-century Canadian women artists
- Artists from Toronto
- Bard College faculty
- Concordia University alumni
- University of California, San Diego alumni