Artworks by Moyra Davey at Galerie Buchholz on artnet

Moyra Davey

(Canadian, born 1958)

Moyra Davey

"Emma / Hazel 1", 2017

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Moyra Davey

"Copperheads No. 1–100, Sarah V., Portikus", 1990/2017

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Moyra Davey

“Hujar / Palermo”, 2010

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Moyra Davey

"Bad Kids", 2014

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Biography

Timeline

1958: Born in Canada
1982: Concordia University, Montréal, Quebec
: C.C. Project Grant, 1985, 1989, l992, Short Term Grant, 1982, 1983
1983: Ontario Arts Council A Grant, 1984, O.A.C. Exhibition Assist 1983, 1985
1987: Canada Council B-Grant, 1995
1988: University Of California, San Diego
1989: Whitney Independent Study Program, New York
: Art Matters Fellowship, 1989, 1995
2004: Anonymous Was a Woman
2008: International Residencies Program, Cité des Arts, Paris, Sept. 2008
2010: Louis C. Tiffany Foundation Award
: Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions

2020: Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (with Peter Hujar) (solo
2019: i confess, greengrassi, London (solo
: Moyra Davey: i confess, Film screening at Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal (solo)
: Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (solo)
: Doing Deculturalization, Museion Foundation. Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
: Platforms: Collection and Commissions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
: In Relation: Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto
: snap+share, SFMOMA, San Francisco
: Mediums of Exchange, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York
: 1989, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia
: Qui parle? / Who speaks?, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
: Acoustic Holographic Language, Bureau des Réalités, Brussels
: The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson
: One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, MOCA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: Hell Notes, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (solo)
: 1943, Galerie Buchholz, New York (solo)
2018: Bring My Garters/Do Nothing, Experimenter, Kolkata (solo
: Still Life in Contemporary Photography, Kunsthaus Wien
2017: Hell Notes, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (solo)
: Portrait / Landscape, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (solo
: Empties, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne (solo)
: documenta 14, Kassel / Athens
: Compassionate Protocols, curated by Moyra Davey and Jason Simon, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York
: Nightfall, Musée Rath, Geneva
: Whatever moves between us also moves the world in general, Murray Guy, New York
: Territories and Fictions: Thinking a New Way of the World, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
: The Uses of Photography: Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
: Me, Myself, I, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
: About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
: Home Improvements, curated by John Waters, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
: Everyday I make my way, Minerva, Sydney, Australia
: Dubai Photo: A Global Perspective on Photography (curated by Natasha Egan), Dubai
: Le Grand Balcon, The Grand Balcony, La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
: 7 Albums, Murray Guy, New York (solo
2016: Hemlock Forest, Bergen Kunsthall (solo
: Esma’/Listen, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon
: Corruption: Everybody knows..., e-flux, New York
: Walker Moving Image Commissions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
: Take One: Contemporary Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art
: Days push off into nights, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
: Reconstructions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: The Revenants, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam (solo)
2015: You’re a nice guy to let me hold you like this, greengrassi, London (solo)
: Photo-Poetics: An Anthology, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2014: Ornament and Reproach, Murray Guy, New York (solo)
: Burn the Diaries, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna / Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (solo)
: Moyra Davey - life without sheets of paper to be scribbled on is masterpiece, Camden Arts Centre, London (solo) 
: Moyra Davey, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago (solo)
: The Way of the Shovel, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Several Species of Small Furry Animals gathered Together in a cave and grooving with a Pict., Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin, Germany
: Sense of Place, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
: Homebodies, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL NY
: Looking Back: 7th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY
: Emmy Moore's Journal: An Exhibition Based on a Letter in a Short Story by Jane Bowles, SALTS, Birsfelden, Switzerland
: Empire State, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
: L’image papillon, MUDAM, Luxembourg
: Hangmen of England, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (solo)
2013: Ornament and Reproach, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (solo)
: Tell it to my heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland: traveling to Culturgeist, Lisbon, Portugalada:
: In the Spirit of Walser, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
: You Have Been There, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
: STATUS – 24 documents of today, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
: Whitney Biennial 2012, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Lo bueno y lo malo, Galeria Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: The Imminence of Poetics, XXX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON, Canada
: Codex, Haut École d’art et de Design, Geneva, Switzerland
: I don't know if it makes any sense – I feel quite dizzy and a little drunk due to the blow. I will return with more info shortly..., IMO Projects, Copenhagen, DK
: Partoftheprocess4, Galleria Zero, Milan, Italy
: Anne Chu, Moyra Davey, Jeanne Dunning, Rebecca Warren, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
: Time Again, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, NY
: After the Gold Rush, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now, CCS Bard – Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
: You Have Been There, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2011: New Photography 2011, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: The art of narration changes with time, Sprüth Magers Galerie, Berlin, Germany
: Sound and Vision (curated by Matthew Witkovsky), The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Living Things: carte grise à Roy Arden, Dazibao, Montreal, Canada
: Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
: The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl (curated by Trevor Schoonmaker), The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; traveling to Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2011); Miami Art Museum (2012); Henry Art Gallery, (2012)
: Calling Beauty, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
: 50 Artists Photograph The Future, curated by Dean Daderko, Higher Pictures, New York
: False Divide: abstraction and representation in a few photographic works, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
: Teatrino / Palermo (curated by Pierre Leguillon and Clément Rodzielsk), Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
: Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the present (curated by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: Grange Prize 2010, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
: Atlas: How to Carry the World on One’s Back? (curated by Georges Didi-Huberman), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; travelling to Sammlung Falckenburg, Hamburg, Germany, and ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsuhe, Germany
: My Necropolis, lllingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB, Canadaus (solo)
2010: My Necropolis, Goodwater, Toronto, ON, Canada (solo)
: Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome, Italy
2009: My Necropolis, Murray Guy, New York (solo)
: A Sensed Perturbation, Murray Guy, New York
: White Noise , James Cohan Gallery, New York
: Arch II Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (solo)
: L’Argent (curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Elisabeth Lebovici), Le Plateau, Ile-de- France, Paris
: The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York
: Mildred’s Lane (curated by Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett), Alexander Gray Associates, New York
: Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960 (curated by Doug Eklund), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2008: Long Life Cool White (curated by Helen Molesworth), The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, (solo)
: Two or Three Things I Know About Her (curated by Helen Molesworth), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2007: Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones (Moyra Davey, Claire Pentecost, James Welling), Orchard, New York
: 50,000 Beds, Real Art Ways, CT
: Fifty Minutes, Goodwater, Toronto, Ontario (solo)
: My Place , TART, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Hypervision , Westport Arts Center, CT
: When Artists Say We , Artists Space, New York
: Slow Revolution, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006: Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo)
: Reality/Play (organized by Moyra Davey), Orchard, New York
2005: One Minute Film & Video Festival (with Jason Simon), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
: Mirage (curated by Julie Ault and Martin Beck), Alexander and Bonin, New York
: Inaugural exhibition, Orchard, New York
2004: Bottle , Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
: American Fine Arts, Co., New York (solo)
2003: Pop Rocks, Caren Golden Gallery, New York
: Afternoon Delight (curated by Max Henry), Caren Golden Gallery, New York
2002: Goodwater, Toronto, Ontario (solo)

Public Collections

: Fondation Stichting A, Brussels
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
: Tate Modern, London
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
: The Art Gallery of Ontario, Ottawa
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
: The National Gallery of Art, Washington
: Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
: Foundation 20/21, New York
: Canada Art Bank Collection
: The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
: The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

Literature

2010: Speaker Receiver (with essays by George Baker, Bill Horrigan, Chris Kraus, and Eric Rosenberg, and an interview by Adam Szymczyk), Sternberg Press, 2010
: Copperheads, Byewater Bros. Editions, Toronto, 2010
2008: Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays by Moyra Davey (with an introduction by Helen Molesworth), Harvard University Press, February, 2008.
2003: The Problem of Reading, Documents Books, 2003.
2001: Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood, Seven Stories Press, 2001.

Moyra Davey

(Canadian, born 1958)

Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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