Moyra Davey

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. She grew up in Montreal, where she studied photography and received a BFA from Concordia University in 1982. She then achieved an 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.

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

Solo exhibitions

*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
*2008 – Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
*2009 – My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
*2010 – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
*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, , 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
*2022 – Film series, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Awards

*2004 – Anonymous Was A Woman Award
*2010 – The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
*2018 – Scotiabank Photography Award
*2020 – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
*2022 – Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts

Collections

Davey's work is held in the following permanent collections:
*Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri;
*Museum of Modern Art, New York
*Tate, London
*Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
*Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
*Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
*San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
* Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
* National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
*National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
*Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Publications

*'' Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood''. Edited by Moyra Davey (New York: Seven Stories, 2001).
*''The Problem of Reading'' (Los Angeles: Documents Books, 2003).
*''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.
*''Copperheads'' (Toronto: Byewater Bros. Editions, 2010).
*''Speaker Receiver'' (Berlin: Sternberg, 2010). Essays by George Baker, Bill Horrigan, Chris Kraus, and Eric Rosenberg, and an interview by Adam Szymczyk. .
*''The Wet and the Dry'' (Paris: Paraguayress, 2011). Edited by castillo/corrales and Will Holder.
*''Empties'' (Vancouver: Presentation House, 2013).
*''Burn the Diaries'' (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, 2014).
*''I'm Your Fan'' (London: Camden Arts Centre, 2014).
* ''Les Goddesses / Hemlock Forest'' (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, 2017). Introduction by Aveek Sen.
*''Gold Dumps and Ant Hills'' (Berlin: Toupée, 2017).
* ''Index Cards: Selected Essays'' (New Directions, 2020). Edited by Nicolas Linnert.
*''I Confess'' (Ottawa/Brooklyn: National Gallery of Canada and Dancing Foxes, 2020). Essays by Dalie Giroux and Andrea Kunard.

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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
Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners