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Canadian artist based in New York City

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.

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]

Davey is represented by greengrassi, London[3] and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York.

Solo exhibitions[edit]

  • 1985 – Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
  • 1994 – Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York; American Fine Arts, Co., New York
  • 2006 – Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio[4]
  • 2008 – Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts[5]
  • 2009 – My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
  • 2010 – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland[6]
  • 2013 – Ornament and Reproach, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
  • 2013 – Hangmen of England, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  • 2014 – Burn the Diaries, Mumok, Vienna; Camden Arts Centre, London
  • 2017 – Empties, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
  • 2017 – Portrait / Landscape, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
  • 2017 – Hell Notes, Portikus, Frankfurt
  • 2018 – Hell Notes, Kunstverein Bielefeld [de], Bielefeld
  • 2018 – “1943”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
  • 2018 – Bring My Garters/Do Nothing, experimenter, Kolkata
  • 2019 – Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
  • 2019 – Les Goddesses, Art Institute of Chicago
  • 2019 – i confess, greengrassi, London
  • 2020 – Moyra Davey Peter Hujar, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (with Peter Hujar)
  • 2020 – The Faithful, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
  • 2020 – Lanak/Obras/Works, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Prizes and awards[edit]

Public collections[edit]

Davey’s works are in the collections of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri;[13] the Museum of Modern Art,[14] New York; the Tate Modern,[15][16] London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[17] New York; the Art Institute of Chicago,[18] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[19] New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[20] New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[21] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[22] Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art,[23] Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Art Gallery of Ontario,[failed verification] Toronto.[24]

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[25]
  • 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]

  1. ^ “Moyra Davey” Archived October 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Retrieved 23 November 2014.
  2. ^ “ICP-Bard MFA”. International Center of Photography. May 16, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2021.
  3. ^ “Moyra Davey – greengrassi”.
  4. ^ “Exhibition : Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 2006”.
  5. ^ “Exhibition: Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2008”. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014.
  6. ^ Exhibition : Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2010 “Archived copy”. Archived from the original on March 17, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ^ “Recipients to Date”. Anonymous Was A Woman. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  8. ^ “2011 Biennial Awards | The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation”. louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  9. ^ “Tiffany Foundation Names 30 Artist Grant Winners”. Observer. February 23, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  10. ^ “Moyra Davey wins $50,000 Scotiabank Photography Award”. thestar.com. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  11. ^ S, Leah; als. “Moyra Davey Wins $50K Scotiabank Photography Award”. Canadian Art. Retrieved February 10, 2019.
  12. ^ “John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Moyra Davey”. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
  13. ^ “Moyra Davey | Kemper Art Museum”. www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu. Retrieved February 15, 2021.
  14. ^ “Moyra Davey. The Coffee Shop, The Library. 2011 | MoMA”. The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  15. ^ Tate. “‘Copperheads’, Moyra Davey, 1990″. Tate. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  16. ^ Tate. “’16 Photographs from Paris II’, Moyra Davey, 2009″. Tate. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  17. ^ “Search the Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art”. www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  18. ^ “Moyra Davey”. The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  19. ^ “Moyra Davey”. whitney.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  20. ^ “Guggenheim Museum Archives”. Guggenheim. March 21, 2013. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  21. ^ “Moyra Davey · SFMOMA”. www.sfmoma.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  22. ^ “Moyra Davey”. www.moca.org. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  23. ^ “Artist Info”. www.nga.gov. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  24. ^ “Moyra Davey Biography”. Murray Guy. Retrieved March 24, 2019.
  25. ^ “The Problem of Reading available online at Murray Guy Gallery’s website”.