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Lynn Davis

(American, born 1944)

Lynn Davis

Iceberg II, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2004

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Biography

Timeline

1944: Born in Minneapolis, MN
1962 - 1964: Studied at University of Colorado
1964 - 1966: Studied at University of Minnesot
1967 - 1970: BFA San Francisco Art Institute
1974: Apprentice to Berenice Abbott
1979: Award: Creative Artist Public Service Program Grant
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2014: De Rerum Natura, a cura di / curated by Angela Madesani, con la collaborazione di / in collaboration with Andrea Lerda, Studio la Città, Verona
2012: Lynn Davis al Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Modern Views of Ancient Treasures. Fotografie di antichi luoghi sacri in Oriente, a cura di/curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Venice (solo)
2011: Modern Views of Ancient Treasures, Dans le Monde Arabe, In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta, Studio la Città, Verona
: Lynn Davis: Into the West, Knoedler & Company at Art Platform, Los Angeles (solo)
: Water & Rocks, Galerie Karsten Greve, St.Moritz
: Persistence of Form: Photographs 1978–2010, Dunn & Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX,
: Waterfalls, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
: Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
: Warren Street, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York
2010: Persistence of Form: Photographs 1978–2010, Knoedler & Company, New York
: Water & Rocks, Galerie Karsten Greve, Köln
: Water, Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey
2009: Lisette Model and Her Successors, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA, USA
: Echo Wanted, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
: Recent Work, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York (solo)
2008: India, Persia, China, Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Remembering Dakota, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA
2007: The Rubin Museum, “Lynn Davis: Illumination” (solo)
: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: Lisette Model and Her Successors, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, USA
: ... e ricomincio da tre, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
2006: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris (solo)
: Orientalismi, curated by Angela Madesani, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
: Monuments, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, USA (solo)
: China, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA (solo)
: Monuments, World Monument Fund, New York, NY
2003: China, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2002: Ice, Karsten Greve Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
: Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Northern Light, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
: Monument, Galerie Karsten Greve Paris, France (solo)
: Building, Dwelling, Thinking, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Massachussetts, USA
: The Inward Eye, Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA
: In Response to Place, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
: Indivisible, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, North Carolina Museum of Art
: Ice, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
2001: Ice, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000: Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Monuments, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
: Three American Women in Paris, Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
: Under/Exposed, Stockholm, Sweden
: Ancient History, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
: Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Photographs of the Puryear Installation, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
: The Cultured Tourist, Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1999: Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Organized by Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson. Traveling to Museum of Photographic Arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Africa, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (solo)
: Through the Lens: Time Space and Matter: Camera Art at the Turn of the Millenium, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY
: Retrospective 1986-1997, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, USA (solo)
: Africa, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Ice, Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
: Charles Cowles Photographic Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
: Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, Center for Creative Photography, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
: Waterproof, Expo ‘98, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
: The Body in the Mirror: Photography Today, Photographic Center of Skopelos, Athens, Greece
: Group Exhibition, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
1998: Color, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
: The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow, New York, NY
1997: Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France (solo)
: Galleri Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
: I Canti Durevoli, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
: Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA (solo)
: Four American Photographers, National Taiwan Arts Education Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
: La Conquête des Pôles, L'Hôtel de Sully, Paris
: Disciplined Beauty, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia
: Ancient Sites, Houk Friedman, New York, NY (Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Lebanon) (solo)
: Warren Street Project: An Inventory of the Historic Structures of Warren Street, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York, NY (solo)
: Les Trois Grandes Egyptiennes, Le Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi; Mission du Patrimoine Photographique, Paris
: Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (a cura di/curated by: Peter Weiermair), Germany
: A Community Collection: Selected Acquisitions, 1991-1996, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, USA
1996: Collection in Context, Henry Buhl Collection, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
1995: Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, USA (solo)
: 1978-1994, Houk Friedman, New York, NY (solo)
: Kohn/Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
: Seeing Things, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
: Water, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
: Blindspot, The Mac, Dallas, TX, USA
: The Lure of Egypt, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, USA
: Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS, USA (solo)
1994: James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY (Burma, Cambodia, Thailand) (solo)
: Hetrick-Martin Institute Benefit, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1993: Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA (solo)
: Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (solo)
: Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: American Photographs: Traditional Themes by Contemporary Photographers, James Danziger Gallery, New York, NY
: Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, NY (solo)
1992: Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (solo)
: Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, USA (solo)
: Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1991: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
: Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (solo)
: Studio La Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
: Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
: The Dream of Egypt, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico
: Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
: Pictures of Peace, F.I.T. Resource Center, New York; D.C.A.C. Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
: Hamiltons Gallery, London (solo)
: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
: New Directions, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1990: Sixth Sense, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1989: Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York, NY (Ice) (solo)
: The Light that Fills the World, The Canadian Embassy, Washington, D.C., USA
: Vollbild, the Full Blown Picture, Neue Gesellschaft fur BildendeKunst, Berlin, Germany
: Photographs From Private Twin Cities Collections, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
: Das Portrait in Der Zeitgenossischen Photographie, Mainz, Germany
1988: Sexual Differences: Both Sides of the Camera, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
: Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA (Bodywork) (solo)
1987: The Male Nude in Photography in the 19th & 20th Centuries, Ravenna, Italy
: Women See Men, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
: Art Against Aids, Dia Foundation, New York, NY
1986: Abstractions, Greathouse, New York, NY
: Heads, Mokotoff Galleries, New York, NY
: Recent Acquisitions, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Art & Commerce, CCD Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1985: Convergence: Lynn Davis, Annie Leibowitz, Erika Lennard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Laurie Simmons, Sheller, Rubin, Winer Gallery, New York, NY
1982: Photography in the 60's & 70's, Institute of Contemporary Art, Brazil
: Galerie Ufficio Dell'Arte, Paris, France
: Robert Samuel Gallery, Provincetown, MS, USA
: Texbraun Gallery, Paris, France
: Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: New American Nudes, Creative Photography Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MS, USA
1981: Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Alumni Exhibitions, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
1980: Men of Style, Staley-Wise, New York, NY
: The Male Nude in Photography, Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York, NY
: Lynn Davis, George Platt Lynes, Karen Tweedy Holmes, Camera Work Gallery, New Hope, PA, USA
: CAPS Recipient Traveling Exhibition, Nikon House, New York, NY
: Permanent Collection Exhibition, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA
: International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Halstead Gallery, Birmingham, MS, USA
1979: Lynn Davis / Robert Mapplethorpe, Trade Off, Robert Samuel Gallery, New York, NY
1978: Fleeting Gestures: Treasures of Dance Photography, International Center for Photography, New York; Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York; Artists Gallery, Seattle; Photopia, Philadelphia; Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York, NY

Literature

2003: An Artist’s Portrayal of China. Northeast Antique & Auction, March 2003, pp. 31.
: The Questing Eye. House & Garden, March 2003, pp. 74-77
: Francesca Memeo. Dal Sudan alla Groenlandia a Caccia di Architetture Naturale. La Stampa, September 2002, pp. 9
: Elizabeth Kolbert. Ice Memory. New Yorker, January 2002, pp. 30-7
: John Kane: Gehlek Rinpoche Likes It That Way, Shambala Sun, July 2002, pp. 45-50
: Les Line. One Picture. Audubon, March-April 2002, pp. 124
: Denis Curti. Reportage dal Mondo dei Sogni. Vivi Milano, Belle Arti, September 2002, pp. 53
: Along the Silk Route. Portfolio: China, Shambala Sun, September 2002, pp. 51-7
2002: Abitareverona Magazine, No. 3
: Linee di Ghiaccio. Tempo Libero, September 2002
2001: Ice, (New York: Edwynn Houk Gallery)
2000: Lynn Davis, (New York: Edwynn Houk Gallery)
1999: Monument, (Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions) Fall. Monograph
: Wonders of the African World, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (New York: Knopf) Fall, 1999. Illustrations throughout
: James Hamilton-Peterson and Trudy Wilner Stack. Sea Change : The Seascape in Contemporary Photography (Tucson, AZ : Center for Creative Photography), p. 25
1998: Body Icons, (Athens, Greece, Photographic Center of Skopelos), p.32
: Aperture, Moments of Grace Spirit in the American Landscape, (New York, Apeture), p. 3
: Water Proof (Lisbon, Portugal : Centro Cultural de Belém)

Lynn Davis

(American, born 1944)

Lynn Davis

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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