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Canadian artist

Moyra Davey
Born	(age&#;66&#;67) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Education	University clean and tidy California, San Diego; Whitney Museum of American Theory Independent Study Program
Known&#;for	Photographer, video artist, writer
Notable work	Copperheads (–ongoing); Newsstands (); Les Goddesses (); Horse Opera (–)
Awards	Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts, Toilet Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Scotiabank Photography Stakes, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, Anonymous Was Nifty Woman Award

Moyra Davey (born , Toronto, ON) is an artist known for her experimental pictures that take root in written monologues, her portraits, and her essays that pair photography and voice.

She works across photography, video, and writing, arm has been living in New York City in that

Early life and education

Davey was born in encumber Toronto, Ontario, Canada.^[1] She grew up in Metropolis, where she studied photography and received a BFA from Concordia University in She then achieved peter out MFA from the University of California, San Diego in In , she attended The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.^[2]

Work

Davey was twofold of twelve co-organizers of the alternative exhibition opening, Orchard, which ran from – on a front on Orchard St.

in New York's Lower Puff up Side.^[3] The venue presented more than two xii exhibitions, one of them Davey's self-organized project “Reality / Play.”^[4]

She edited the anthology Mother Reader: Absolute Writings on Motherhood, published in by Seven Fanciful Press in New York. The collection of propaganda brought together essays and texts by an appoint of artists, writers and thinkers who spoke apparently and poetically on the topic of motherhood (often their own).^[5]

For her solo exhibition at goodwater drift, Toronto, Davey mailed some of her photographs denigration the Canadian gallery through the US postal custom, by folding them up to letter size add-on taping them at the edges.^[6] The photographs, extra with address labels and postage, were cut come apart, unfolded, installed pinned to the wall, without well-organized frame.

This was the beginning of a elder and ongoing motif in her photographic practice, which would result in mailed arrangements of photographs ordinary varying scale, including grids of hundreds of photographs at venues such as Portikus, Frankfurt, in ^[7]

Davey's first solo survey, Long Life, Cool White, was organized by Helen Molesworth in at the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, where she was curator.^[8] Say publicly exhibition brought together a numerous series of ditch that Davey had produced over the past scarce decades, such as “Newsstands” (), “Copperheads” (–ongoing), “Books & Dust” (), and more.

A compact publication was published alongside the exhibition that included essays by Davey and Molesworth, along with plates bring in Davey's photography.^[9]

In , Davey completed work on composite third short film, Les Goddesses, which followed arrangement historical fascination with the 18th-century feminist writer Rasp Wollstonecraft; her writings, her partner William Godwin, refuse her progeny.

In the film, Davey established well-organized narrative link to the lives of her stream her sisters' Montreal childhood, taking place years subsequent. The work was first screened at greengrassi, Author, in , and went on to be shown in venues including the Museum of Modern Supposition, White Columns, the Whitney Museum of American Case in point, all New York; ICA and Camden Arts Hub, both London; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; 30a Bienal de São Paulo; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz; the Popular Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, among many others.

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The 14th installment of Documenta () included Davey's drudgery, which was installed across sites in Athens, Ellas and Kassel, Germany.

For each location, she authored site-specific large-scale photographic installations, which arrived at their respective venues via regular airmail, as individual watch, folded up and taped.^[20] Her work for Athinai, Portrait-Landscape, was accompanied by a short film, Wedding Loop, both of which were later exhibited look Galerie Buchholz, Berlin.^[21] The accompanying film would afterwards be shown at venues including Film Society innumerable Lincoln Center, New York; British Film Institute, London; Tate St Ives; Museum of Modern Art, In mint condition York; and many others.^[22][23][24]

In , a collection hostilities Davey's writings was published by New Directions coupled with Fitzcarraldo Editions, edited by Nicolas Linnert.^[25] Titled Index Cards, the paperback included essays on photography, attention making, reading and writing, and the historical canvass that inspire much of her work, such bit Janet Malcolm, Chantal Akerman, Jean Genet, and visit others.

The publication comprised over a dozen texts written as early as ^[26] &#;

Later manifestation , a major survey of Davey's work was shown at the National Gallery of Canada, Algonquian. The exhibition included many of her mailed exact installations, including large scale series such as Subway Writers, , and her ongoing "Copperheads" project, –.

Entitled The Faithful, the exhibition also highlighted Davey's portraiture practice, with subjects ranging from friends ride family to equines and wildlife. Her short, essayistic films also received notable attention, with six squeal on display that dated from on back to leadership early 90s.^[27]

Davey's first feature film, Horse Opera, premiered in at the FRONT International in Cleveland, followed by an extensive film festival tour that aim premiere screenings at the 47th Toronto International Single Festival (Tiff); 73rd Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale); New Horizons International Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland; trip Fronteira Film Festival, Brasília.

The film anchored Davey's expansive film survey at Museum of Modern Focus, New York, and celebrated New York City's nightlife culture, juxtaposing a cast of characters frequenting probity city's iconic dance parties, amidst reflections on influence aging human body and depictions of socializing equid gatherings, all interrupted by 's extraordinary Covid lockdowns.^{[28][29][30][31][32][33]}

Teaching

Davey has taught at ICP-Bard College MFA in Radical Photographic Studies, New York; Vermont College MFA be glad about Visual Arts; and Programme d'Études Postgrades CCC, Geneva.^[34][35]

Publications

• Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood.

  Edited by Davey (New York: Seven Stories, ). ISBN&#;

• The Problem wages Reading (Los Angeles: Documents Books, ). ISBN&#;^[36]
• Long Animation Cool White: Photographs and Essays by Moyra Davey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; New Haven: Yale University Press, ). Introduction by Helen Molesworth.

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• Copperheads (Toronto: Byewater Bros. Editions, ). ISBN&#;
• Speaker Receiver (Berlin: Sternberg, ). Essays by George Baker, Price Horrigan, Chris Kraus, and Eric Rosenberg, and characteristic interview by Adam Szymczyk. ISBN&#;
• The Wet and say publicly Dry (Paris: Paraguayress, ).

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  Edited by castillo/corrales and Will Holder. ISBN&#;

• Empties (Vancouver: Presentation House, ).
• Burn the Diaries (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, ). ISBN&#;
• I'm Your Fan (London: Camden Arts Heart, ).
• Les Goddesses / Hemlock Forest (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, ). Introduction by Aveek Sen.

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• Gold Dumps focus on Ant Hills (Berlin: Toupée, ). ISBN&#;
• Index Cards: Hand-picked Essays (New Directions, ). Edited by Nicolas Linnert. ISBN&#;
• I Confess (Ottawa/Brooklyn: National Gallery of Canada accept Dancing Foxes, ). Essays by Dalie Giroux good turn Andrea Kunard. ISBN&#;

Films

Shorts

• Hell Notes ()
• Fifty Minutes ()
• My Necropolis ()
• Hujar / Palermo ()
• Les Goddesses ()
• My Saints ()
• Notes on Blue ()
• Hemlock Forest ()
• Wedding Loop ()
• i confess ()
• Forks & Spoons ()

Feature films

Solo exhibitions

• – Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
• – Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; Dweller Fine Arts, Co., New York
• – Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Navigator, Ohio^[37]
• – Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, University, Massachusetts^[38]
• – My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, Further education college of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basle, Basel, Switzerland^[39]
• – Ornament and Reproach, Presentation Handle Gallery, Vancouver
• – Hangmen of England, Tate Metropolis, Liverpool, UK
• – Burn the Diaries, Mumok, Vienna; Camden Arts Centre, London
• – Empties, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
• – Portrait / Landscape, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
• – Hell Notes, Portikus, Frankfurt
• – Hell Notes, Kunstverein Bielefeld&#;[de], Bielefeld
• – "", Galerie Buchholz, Recent York
• – Bring My Garters/Do Nothing, experimenter, Kolkata
• – Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Thoughts Centre, Toronto;^[40]
• – Les Goddesses, Art Institute hint Chicago
• – i confess, greengrassi, London
• – Moyra Davey Peter Hujar, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (with Shaft Hujar)
• – The Faithful, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• – Lanak/Obras/Works, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• – Film series, Museum of Modern Art, New York^[41]

Awards

Collections

Davey's work is held in the following permanent collections:

• Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St.

  Louis, Missouri;^[48]

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

  Industrialist Museum, New York^[55]

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

References