Moyra Davey
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Born | 1958 |
Known for | Photography, Video, Film, Writing |
Moyra Davey (born 1958) is an artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing.
Early life[edit]
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[edit]
Since the late 1970s, Davey has built an increasingly influential 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[edit]
- 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, CA
- 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, OH[3]
- 2007 Fifty Minutes, Goodwater, Toronto[4]// My Place, TART, San Francisco, CA
- 2008 Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA[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[11] // 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[edit]
- 2004 Anonymous Was a Woman[12]
- 2010 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award[13][14]
- 2018 Scotiabank Photography Award[15][16]
- 2020 John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship[17]
Public collections[edit]
Davey's works are in the collections of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri;[18] the Museum of Modern Art,[19] New York; the Tate Modern,[20][21] London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[22] New York; the Art Institute of Chicago,[23] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[24] New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[25] New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[26] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[27] Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art,[28] Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Art Gallery of Ontario,[failed verification] Toronto.[29]
Publications[edit]
- 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[30]
- 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[edit]
- ^ "Moyra Davey" Archived October 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Retrieved 23 November 2014.
- ^ Bard College International Center of Photography
- ^ 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 March 17, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Exhibition : My Necropolis, Murray Guy, New York, 2009
- ^ Exhibition : Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2010 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Exhibition : My Necropolis, Goodwater, Toronto, 2010
- ^ Exhibition : Les Goddesses, Greengrassi, London, 2011
- ^ Exhibition : Spleen. Indolence. Torpor. Ill-humor, Murray Guy, New York, 2012 [1]
- ^ Exhibition : Ornament and Reproach, Murray Guy, New York, 2014
- ^ "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. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ S, Leah; als. "Moyra Davey Wins $50K Scotiabank Photography Award". Canadian Art. Retrieved February 10, 2019. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ "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. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ^ The Problem of Reading available online at Murray Guy Gallery's website
External links[edit]
- http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/newphotography/moyra-davey/
- http://www.goodwatergallery.com/GW01-06/GW/Artists/Davey/bio-davey.htm
- http://murrayguy.com/moyra-davey/biography/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140317002744/http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/BRS.cgi?section=article&issue=79&article=INTERVIEW_WITH_MOYRA_2552759
- http://www.bard.edu/academics/faculty/faculty.php?action=details&id=1461 see bard's ICP Program
- http://www.aperture.org/blog/rescripted-conversation-moyra-davey-matthew-s-witkovsky/.
- 2014 Bomb Magazine interview of Moyra Davey by Elisabeth Lebovici