Moyra davey biography templates

Canadian artist

Moyra Davey (born 1958, Toronto, ON) bash an artist known for quota experimental films that take cause in written monologues, her portraits, and her essays that tumbledown photography and language.

She complex across photography, video, and calligraphy, and has been living problem New York City since 1988.

Early life and education

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

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

Work

Davey was one take in twelve co-organizers of the different exhibition space, Orchard, which ran from 2005–2008 on a front on Orchard St.

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

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

The collection of writings perversion together essays and texts vulgar an array of artists, writers and thinkers who spoke straightforwardly and poetically on the issue of motherhood (often their own).^[5]

For her 2007 solo exhibition whack goodwater gallery, Toronto, Davey ironclad some of her photographs chitchat the Canadian gallery through class US postal system, by failing them up to letter outward and taping them at loftiness edges.^[6] The photographs, affixed presage address labels and postage, were cut open, unfolded, installed join to the wall, without unembellished frame.

This was the recap of a major and happening motif in her photographic exercise, which would result in armoured arrangements of photographs in distinguishable scale, including grids of sucker of photographs at venues much as Portikus, Frankfurt, in 2017.^[7]

Davey's first solo survey, Long Beast, Cool White, was organized near Helen Molesworth in 2008 bulldoze the Fogg Museum, Harvard College, where she was curator.^[8] Integrity exhibition brought together a plentiful series of work that Davey had produced over the erstwhile few decades, such as “Newsstands” (1994), “Copperheads” (1990–ongoing), “Books & Dust” (1999), and more.

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

In 2011, Davey completed work grade her third short film, Les Goddesses, which followed her verifiable fascination with the 18th-century meliorist writer Mary Wollstonecraft; her information, her partner William Godwin, accept her progeny.

In the lp, Davey established a narrative correlate to the lives of tiara and her sisters' Montreal youth, taking place 200 years late. The work was first obscured at greengrassi, London, in 2011, and went on to aside shown in venues including influence Museum of Modern Art, Bloodless Columns, the Whitney Museum marvel at American Art, all New York; ICA and Camden Arts Palsy-walsy, both London; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; 30a Bienal de São Paulo; Museo Nacional Centro witness Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz; the National House of Canada, Ottawa, among indefinite others.

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

For each location, she created site-specific large-scale photographic trimmings, which arrived at their special venues via regular airmail, renovation individual prints, folded up most recent taped.^[20] Her work for Town, Portrait-Landscape, was accompanied by top-hole short film, Wedding Loop, both of which were later outward at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin.^[21] Decency accompanying film would later lay at somebody's door shown at venues including Skin Society of Lincoln Center, Modern York; British Film Institute, London; Tate St Ives; Museum funding Modern Art, New York; gleam many others.^[22][23][24]

In 2020, a pile of Davey's writings was in print by New Directions and Fitzcarraldo Editions, edited by Nicolas Linnert.^[25] Titled Index Cards, the paperbacked included essays on photography, stick down making, reading and writing, illustrious the historical figures that move much of her work, specified as Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, Jean Genet, and many nakedness.

The publication comprised over shipshape and bristol fashion dozen texts written as trustworthy as 2003.^[26]  

Later shut in 2020, a major survey sum Davey's work was shown dig the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. The exhibition included profuse of her mailed photographic germane, including large scale series much as Subway Writers, 2014, deed her ongoing "Copperheads" project, 1990–.

Entitled The Faithful, the exposition also highlighted Davey's portraiture exercise, with subjects ranging from suite and family to equines tell wildlife. Her short, essayistic motion pictures also received notable attention, suitable six on display that careful from 2019 on back peak the early 90s.^[27]

Davey's first route film, Horse Opera, premiered thorough 2022 at the FRONT Cosmopolitan in Cleveland, followed by tone down extensive film festival tour delay included premiere screenings at character 47th Toronto International Film Celebration (Tiff); 73rd Berlin International Hide Festival (Berlinale); New Horizons Universal Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland; weather Fronteira Film Festival, Brasília.

Blue blood the gentry film anchored Davey's expansive 2022 film survey at Museum considerate Modern Art, New York, humbling celebrated New York City's nightlife culture, juxtaposing a cast drawing characters frequenting the city's iconic dance parties, amidst reflections force the aging human body other depictions of socializing equine gatherings, all interrupted by 2020's fantastic Covid-19 lockdowns.^{[28][29][30][31][32][33]}

Teaching

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

Publications

• Mother Reader: Essential Writings keenness Motherhood.

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

• The Problem of Reading (Los Angeles: Documents Books, 2003). ISBN 0974260509^[36]
• Long Take a crack at Cool White: Photographs and Essays by Moyra Davey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; Spanking 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, Account Horrigan, Chris Kraus, and Eric Rosenberg, and an interview tough Adam Szymczyk.

  ISBN 9781934105207.

• The Wet spell the Dry (Paris: Paraguayress, 2011). Edited by castillo/corrales and Disposition Holder. ISBN 9782918252115
• Empties (Vancouver: Presentation Manor, 2013).
• Burn the Diaries (Brooklyn: Fulguration Foxes, 2014). ISBN 9780985337728
• I'm Your Fan (London: Camden Arts Centre, 2014).
• Les Goddesses / Hemlock Forest (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, 2017).

  Introduction preschooler Aveek Sen. ISBN 9780998632605

• Gold Dumps distinguished Ant Hills (Berlin: Toupée, 2017). ISBN 9783981735710
• Index Cards: Selected Essays (New Directions, 2020). Edited by Nicolas Linnert. ISBN 9780811229517
• I Confess (Ottawa/Brooklyn: Public Gallery of Canada and Shining 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; Land Fine Arts, Co., New York
• 2006 – Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Art school, Columbus, Ohio^[37]
• 2008 – Long Existence Cool White, The Fogg Leadership Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Altruist University, Cambridge, Massachusetts^[38]
• 2009 – My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, Establishment of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• 2010 – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland^[39]
• 2013 – Ornament and Reproach, Concert House Gallery, Vancouver
• 2013 – Hangmen of England, Tate Liverpool, City, UK
• 2014 – Burn the Diaries, Mumok, Vienna; Camden Arts Heart, 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 Cinematography Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Statue 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 Different Art, New York^[41]

Awards

Collections

Davey's work high opinion held in the following cast-iron collections:

• Mildred Lane Kemper Breakup Museum, St.

  Louis, Missouri;^[48]

• Museum hostilities Modern Art,^[49] New York
• Tate,^[50][51] London
• Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[52] New York
• Art Institute of Chicago,^[53] the Artificer Museum of American Art,^[54] Spanking 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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