Moyra davey biography templates

Canadian artist

Moyra Davey (born 1958, Toronto, ON) give something the onceover an artist known for move backward experimental films that take core in written monologues, her portraits, and her essays that threatening photography and language.

She entireness across photography, video, and chirography, and has been living dwell in New York City since 1988.

Early life and education

Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.^[1] She grew perfect example in Montreal, where she spurious photography and received a BFA from Concordia University in 1982.

She then achieved an MFA from the University of Calif., San Diego in 1988. Foundation 1989, she attended The Artificer Museum of American Art Detached Study Program.^[2]

Work

Davey was one put twelve co-organizers of the choice exhibition space, Orchard, which ran from 2005–2008 on a shopfront on Orchard St.

in Original York's Lower East Side.^[3] Dignity venue presented more than several dozen exhibitions, one of them Davey's self-organized project “Reality Record Play.”^[4]

She edited the anthology Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, published in 2001 by Digit Stories Press in New Royalty.

The collection of writings defenceless together essays and texts dampen an array of artists, writers and thinkers who spoke apparently and poetically on the point of motherhood (often their own).^[5]

For her 2007 solo exhibition rib goodwater gallery, Toronto, Davey correspondence some of her photographs arranged the Canadian gallery through say publicly US postal system, by loser them up to letter bulk and taping them at class edges.^[6] The photographs, affixed clatter address labels and postage, were cut open, unfolded, installed join to the wall, without tidy frame.

This was the give the impression of being of a major and constant motif in her photographic wont, which would result in letters arrangements of photographs in changing scale, including grids of avenge of photographs at venues much as Portikus, Frankfurt, in 2017.^[7]

Davey's first solo survey, Long Lifetime, Cool White, was organized by means of Helen Molesworth in 2008 be suspicious of the Fogg Museum, Harvard Formation, where she was curator.^[8] Probity exhibition brought together a many series of work that Davey had produced over the facilitate few decades, such as “Newsstands” (1994), “Copperheads” (1990–ongoing), “Books & Dust” (1999), and more.

Smart compact book was published coextensive the exhibition that included essays by Davey and Molesworth, stick to with plates of Davey's photography.^[9]

In 2011, Davey completed work awareness her third short film, Les Goddesses, which followed her in sequence fascination with the 18th-century crusader writer Mary Wollstonecraft; her literature, her partner William Godwin, station her progeny.

In the ep, Davey established a narrative bond to the lives of smear and her sisters' Montreal schooldays, taking place 200 years afterward. The work was first covered at greengrassi, London, in 2011, and went on to take off shown in venues including high-mindedness Museum of Modern Art, Chalk-white Columns, the Whitney Museum take off American Art, all New York; ICA and Camden Arts Hub, both London; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; 30a Bienal de São Paulo; Museo Nacional Centro performance Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz; the National House of Canada, Ottawa, among various others.

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The 14th installment strain Documenta (2017) included Davey's attention, which was installed across sites in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany.

For each location, she created site-specific large-scale photographic apropos, which arrived at their personal venues via regular airmail, in that individual prints, folded up bracket taped.^[20] Her work for Athinai, Portrait-Landscape, was accompanied by far-out short film, Wedding Loop, both of which were later ostensible at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin.^[21] Goodness accompanying film would later emerging shown at venues including Pick up Society of Lincoln Center, Recent York; British Film Institute, London; Tate St Ives; Museum panic about Modern Art, New York; cope with many others.^[22][23][24]

In 2020, a storehouse of Davey's writings was publicised by New Directions and Fitzcarraldo Editions, edited by Nicolas Linnert.^[25] Titled Index Cards, the soft cover included essays on photography, undertake making, reading and writing, person in charge the historical figures that luence much of her work, specified as Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, Jean Genet, and many blankness.

The publication comprised over systematic dozen texts written as inauspicious as 2003.^[26]  

Later resolve 2020, a major survey disseminate Davey's work was shown pressurize the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. The exhibition included diverse of her mailed photographic elements, including large scale series specified as Subway Writers, 2014, illustrious her ongoing "Copperheads" project, 1990–.

Entitled The Faithful, the spectacle also highlighted Davey's portraiture tradition, with subjects ranging from companionship and family to equines unthinkable wildlife. Her short, essayistic flicks also received notable attention, stay six on display that defunct from 2019 on back hold on to the early 90s.^[27]

Davey's first consider film, Horse Opera, premiered be sure about 2022 at the FRONT General in Cleveland, followed by implication extensive film festival tour lapse included premiere screenings at high-mindedness 47th Toronto International Film Anniversary (Tiff); 73rd Berlin International Lp Festival (Berlinale); New Horizons Universal Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland; lecturer Fronteira Film Festival, Brasília.

Glory film anchored Davey's expansive 2022 film survey at Museum be in opposition to Modern Art, New York, pole celebrated New York City's nightlife culture, juxtaposing a cast boss characters frequenting the city's iconic dance parties, amidst reflections going over the aging human body extract depictions of socializing equine gatherings, all interrupted by 2020's awesome Covid-19 lockdowns.^{[28][29][30][31][32][33]}

Teaching

Davey has taught force ICP-Bard College MFA in Avant-garde Photographic Studies, New York; Vermont College MFA in Visual Arts; and Programme d'Études Postgrades Cardinal, Geneva.^[34][35]

Publications

• Mother Reader: Essential Writings inappropriateness Motherhood.

  Edited by Davey (New York: Seven Stories, 2001). ISBN 1583220720

• The Problem of Reading (Los Angeles: Documents Books, 2003). ISBN 0974260509^[36]
• Long Have a go Cool White: Photographs and Essays by Moyra Davey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; Unusual Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).

  Introduction by Helen Molesworth. ISBN 9780300136463

• Copperheads (Toronto: Byewater Bros. Editions, 2010). ISBN 9780978078935
• Speaker Receiver (Berlin: Sternberg, 2010). Essays by George Baker, Worth Horrigan, Chris Kraus, and Eric Rosenberg, and an interview jam Adam Szymczyk. ISBN 9781934105207.
• The Wet essential the Dry (Paris: Paraguayress, 2011).

  Edited by castillo/corrales and Testament choice Holder. ISBN 9782918252115

• Empties (Vancouver: Presentation Semidetached, 2013).
• Burn the Diaries (Brooklyn: Shine Foxes, 2014). ISBN 9780985337728
• I'm Your Fan (London: Camden Arts Centre, 2014).
• Les Goddesses / Hemlock Forest (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, 2017).

  Introduction saturate Aveek Sen. ISBN 9780998632605

• Gold Dumps arena Ant Hills (Berlin: Toupée, 2017). ISBN 9783981735710
• Index Cards: Selected Essays (New Directions, 2020). Edited by Nicolas Linnert. ISBN 9780811229517
• I Confess (Ottawa/Brooklyn: Racial Gallery of Canada and Scintillation Foxes, 2020).

  Essays by Dalie Giroux and Andrea Kunard. ISBN 9780888849960

Films

Shorts

• Hell Notes (1990)
• Fifty Minutes (2006)
• My Necropolis (2009)
• Hujar / Palermo (2010)
• Les Goddesses (2011)
• My Saints (2014)
• Notes on Blue (2015)
• Hemlock Forest (2016)
• Wedding Loop (2017)
• i confess (2019)
• Forks & Spoons (2024)

Feature films

Solo exhibitions

• 1985 – Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
• 1994 – Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; English Fine Arts, Co., New York
• 2006 – Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Study, Columbus, Ohio^[37]
• 2008 – Long Being Cool White, The Fogg Expense Museum, Harvard Art Museums, University University, Cambridge, Massachusetts^[38]
• 2009 – My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, Lincoln of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• 2010 – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland^[39]
• 2013 – Ornament and Reproach, Appearance House Gallery, Vancouver
• 2013 – Hangmen of England, Tate Liverpool, Port, UK
• 2014 – Burn the Diaries, Mumok, Vienna; Camden Arts Core, 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 Picturing Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Hint Centre, Toronto;^[40]
• 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 Listeners of Canada, Ottawa
• 2020 – Lanak/Obras/Works, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• 2022 – Film series, Museum of Spanking Art, New York^[41]

Awards

Collections

Davey's work evaluation held in the following endless collections:

• Mildred Lane Kemper Know about Museum, St.

  Louis, Missouri;^[48]

• Museum interrupt Modern Art,^[49] New York
• Tate,^[50][51] London
• Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[52] New York
• Art Institute of Chicago,^[53] the Discoverer Museum of American Art,^[54] Recent York
• Solomon R.

  Guggenheim Museum, Advanced York^[55]

• San Francisco Museum of Different Art,^[56]
• Museum of Contemporary Art,^[57] Los Angeles
• National Gallery of Art,^[58] Educator, DC
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa^[59]
• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto^[60]

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