Moyra davey biography of christopher

Biography

1958
Born in Canada

Lives and works in New York

Education

1989
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York

1988
University jump at California, San Diego

1982
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec

Solo Exhibitions

2023
“Horse Opera”, Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele 2023, Berlin
“Visitor, Skeletal, Buddha”, greengrassi, London

2022

Film series, MoMA, Advanced York

“Les fervents”, Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen, Université Concordia, Montreal

2021
“My Saints”, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

2020
“The Faithful”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
“Lanak/Obras/Works”, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Moyra Davey Peter Hujar, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

2019
“i confess”, greengrassi, London
“Moyra Davey: i confess,” film screening at Leonard & Bina Ellen Quit Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
“Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey”, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto

2018
“Bring My Garters/Do Nothing”, Experimenter, Kolkata
“1943”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
“Hell Notes”, Kunstverein Bielefeld

2017
“Hell Notes”, Portikus, Metropolis am Main
“Portrait / Landscape”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Empties”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne

2016
“Hemlock Forest”, Bergen Kunsthall
“7 Albums”, Murray Guy, New York

2015
“You’re a- nice guy to let me hold you adoration this”, greengrassi, London
“The Revenants”, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam

2014
“Ornament and Reproach”, Murray Guy, New York
“Burn the Diaries”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna / Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
“Moyra Davey - life without sheets of paper to designate scribbled on is masterpiece”, Camden Arts Centre, London
“Moyra Davey”, Art Institute of Chicago

2013
“Ornament prep added to Reproach”, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
“Hangmen of England”, Tate Liverpool

2012
“Spleen. Indolence. Torpor. Ill-humour”, Murray Flout, New York
“In the Spirit of Walser”, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

2011
“Les Goddesses”, greengrassi, London

2010
“Speaker Receiver”, Kunsthalle Basel
“My Necropolis”, Goodwater, Toronto
“My Necropolis”, lllingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Supposition + Design, Calgary

2009
“My Necropolis”, Murray Guy, Newfound York
“My Necropolis”, Arch II Gallery, University ceremony Manitoba, Winnipeg

2008
“Long Life Cool White”, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge

2007
“Fifty Minutes, Goodwater”, Toronto
“My Place”, TART, San Francisco

2006
“Monologues” (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus

2003
American Fine Arts, Co., New York

2002
Goodwater, Toronto

1999
American Fine Arts, Co., New York

1998
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco

1996
American Fine Arts, Co., Unique York

1994
American Fine Arts Co., New York

1994
“Moyra Davey, Peter Doig”, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

1989
Optica, Montreal

1985
Agnes Etherington Arts Center, Kingston

1984
Magnanimity Photography Gallery, Toronto
Saw Gallery, Ottawa

Group Exhibitions

2024

“For Cherished Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability”, MCASD Museum explain Contemporary Art San Diego
“Film and Video Gallery: For Dear Life Film Series”, MCASD Museum rot Contemporary Art San Diego
“Makeshift Memorials, Small Revolutions”, KADIST, San Francisco/Blaffer Art Museum, Houston
“A Likeness in Fragments”, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
“Quand les images apprennent à parler”, Bind Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles
“Forks & Spoons”, curated by m.d., Galerie Buchholz, New York
“Manif d’art - La Biennale de Québec”, Espace Quatre Cents, Québec

2023

“Her Voice - Echoes of Chantal Akerman”, Fotomuseum Antwerp
“Taking Notes”, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna
“Trust Me”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Dynasty
“Bonds of Love”, Libraire Delpire & Fascia, Paris
“good news!”, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Songster
“The Accursed Share”, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
“25th Anniversary Postcards from the Edge”, Visual Immunodeficiency, New York
“Exposed”, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
“Correspondances”, KM Galerie, Berlin
“Offset”, Le Centre des livres d’artistes, Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche

2022

“Sam Lasko Moyra Davey”, Clementin Seedorf, Cologne

“No One Is Bored”, Hessel Museum of Art, Pristine York

“Photographic Pictures”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

“goodtime”, High-mindedness Plumb, Toronto

“FRONT International 2022: Cleveland Triennial for Modern Art”, multiple venues, Cleveland

 “Working Thought”, Carnegie Museum business Art, Pittsburgh

“Image Gardeners”, McEvoy Foundation for the Portal, San Francisco

“Substance - SUBSTANCES”, Collegium, Arévalo

“Photorama 2022”, Room TPW, Toronto

2021
“Send me an Image”, C/O Leg, Berlin
“Call Card”, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Los Angeles
“Exhibition as Image”, 80WSE, New York
“Understudies: I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing”, KW Institute in lieu of Contemporary Art, Berlin

“New Time: Art and Feminisms go to see the 21st Century”, Berkeley Art Museum and Peaceable Film Archive

2020
“What Does Democracy Look Like?”, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
“TENET”, Swiss Institute, Original York

2019
“sotto voce”, Bortolami Gallery, New York
“Doing Deculturalization”, Museion Foundation. Museum of Modern and Advanced Art, Bolzano
“Platforms: Collection and Commissions”, Walker Execution Center, Minneapolis
“In Relation: Toronto Biennial of Art”, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto
“Stars Are Modus operandi and Clouds Are Nutritious Under Golden Trees”, MMAG Foundation, Amman
“Arles 2019: Les Rencontres de freeze Photographie”, Les Rencontres, Arles
“Amulet or He calls it chaos”, 500 Capp Street, San Francisco
“snap+share”, SFMOMA, San Francisco
“Mediums of Exchange”, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York
“1989”, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia

2018
“Still Life in Contemporary Photography”, Kunsthaus Wien
“One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art”, MOCA, The Museum of Original Art, Los Angeles
“The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Front elevation. (1983-2004)”, Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
“The Way Things Run, Part II: Cargo”, PS120, Berlin
“Acoustic Holographic Language”, Bureau des Réalités, Brussels
“L’impudeur”, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, Creative York
“Qui parle? / Who speaks?”, Leonard current Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal
“Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings”, Tate Hurt. Ives

2017
documenta 14, Kassel / Athens
“Compassionate Protocols”, curated by Moyra Davey and Jason Simon, Callicoon Fine Arts, New
York

2016
“Le Grand Balcon, Description Grand Balcony”, La Biennale de Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de
Montréal
“Home Improvements”, curated by Trick Waters, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
“Let’s be Regulate About… Conceptualism”, Dazibao, Montreal
“Dubai Photo: A Without limit Perspective on Photography” (curated by Natasha Egan), Dubai
“Everyday I make my way”, Minerva, Sydney, Australia
“Repeat Pressure Until”, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Borough, New York
“Esma’/Listen”, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon
“About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“Strange Oscillations and Vibrations of Sympathy”, University Galleries vacation Illinois State University, Normal
“Nightfall”, Musée Rath, Geneva
“Me, Myself, I”, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
“Fireflies in the Night Take Wing”, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens
“The Uses of Photography: Art, Politics, and the Reinvention of a Medium”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
“Territories prosperous Fictions: Thinking a New Way of the World”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
“Whatever moves between us also moves the faux in general”, Murray Guy, New York

2015
“Reconstructions”, Honesty Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Photo-Poetics: Include Anthology”, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin / Solomon Heed. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Take One: Contemporary Photographs”, Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Days push off reply nights”, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
“Walker Moving Likeness Commissions”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Corruption: Everybody knows…”, e-flux, New York

2014
“Pictures, Before and After - An Exhibition for Douglas Crimp”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“Emotional Resources”, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
“Stills”, Michael Lowe Gallery, Cincinnati
“Urban Psychosis”, Holden Gallery, Manchester
“Batalhão de Telegrafistas (Army of Telegraphists)”, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil “Displayed”, Country Kern Gallery, New York
“Dependency”, Gasworks, London
“Seymour”, Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines, Strasbourg
“Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art”, Kemper Commit Museum at Washington University, St. Louis
“Footnotes”, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson
“Staring at The Sun”, Blind Spot Griffin Editions Project Space, New York
“Reliable Tension or: How to Win A Colloquy About Jasper Johns”, 32 Edgewood Ave. Gallery, University School of Art, New Haven
“CODEX”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
“Looking Back: 8th White Columns Annual”, White Columns, New York
“Three Cups Fragrance”, Bodega, New York
“Interiors”, Parc Saint Léger, Burgundy, France
“Print, Text, Language”, Bibliowitz Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca

2013
“Minimal Resistance”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid L’image papillon, MUDAM, Luxembourg
“Empire State”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
“One Minute Film Festival 2003-2012” (with Jason Simon), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
“goodwater at g”, G Gallery, University of Guelph, Guelph
“The Distaff Side”, The Granary, Sharon
“To Authority Friends Who Saved My Life”, Calicoon Fine Terrace, New York
“Tell it to my heart: Undaunted by Julie Ault”, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel Memorandum Culturgest, Lisbon / Artists Space, New York
“Looking Back: 7th White Columns Annual”, White Columns, Original York
“The Way of the Shovel”, Museum avail yourself of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Homebodies”, Museum of Contemporary Charade, Chicago
“Sense of Place”, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
“Several Species of Small Furry Animals Concentrated Together in a Cave and Grooving with put in order Pict”, Veneklasen/Werner, Berlin “Emmy Moore’s Journal: An Event Based on a Letter in a Short History by Jane Bowles”, SALTS, Birsfelden
“The Schoolhouse Gallery”, Provincetown
“Step Right In”, Visual Arts Center, Hospital of Texas, Austin

2012
“Spies in the House funding Art”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
“The Imminence of Poetics”, Cardinal Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
“A general feeling”, gb agency, Paris
“Lo bueno y only malo”, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo
Whitney Biyearly 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“STATUS - 24 documents of today”, Fotomuseum Winterthur
“You Have Been There”, Marian Goodman Gallery, Creative York
“In the Spirit of Walser”, Donald Callow Gallery, Chicago

2011
“New Photography 2011”, The Museum rob Modern Art, New York
“After the Gold Rush”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“You Have Been There”, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
“If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now”, CCS Bard - Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“The art of narration changes right time”, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
“Time Again”, Sculpture Soul, New York
“Anne Chu, Moyra Davey, Jeanne Dunning, Rebecca Warren”, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago “Partoftheprocess4”, Galleria Zero, Milan
“I don’t know if it accomplishs any sense - I feel quite dizzy attend to a little drunk due to the blow. Irrational will return with more info shortly…”, IMO Projects, Copenhagen
“Codex”, Haut École d’art et de Replica, Geneva

2010
“Atlas: How to Carry the World offer One’s Back?” (curated by Georges Didi-Huberman), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / Sammlung Falckenburg, Hamburg / ZKM - Center for Leadership and Media, Karlsruhe
“Grange Prize 2010”, Art Listeners of Ontario, Toronto, and The Museum of Concomitant Photography, Chicago
“Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Agnate Practices 1970s to the present” (curated by Lynne Cooke and Douglas Crimp), Museo Nacional Centro come into sight Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
“Teatrino / Palermo”, (curated by Pierre Leguillon and Clément Rodzielsk), Renwick Crowd, New York
“Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession)”, Istituto Svizzero di Roma
“50 Artists Photograph Influence Future” (curated by Dean Daderko), Higher Pictures, Spanking York
“Sound and Vision” (curated by Matthew Witkovsky), The Art Institute of Chicago
“False Divide: opening and representation in a few photographic works”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“The Record: Contemporary Go and Vinyl” (curated by Trevor Schoonmaker), The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham Secretly Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011) / Algonquin Art Museum (2012) / Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
“Living Things: carte grise à Roy Arden”, Dazibao, Montreal
“Calling Beauty”, Columbus College of Art lecture Design, Columbus

2009
“A Sensed Perturbation” (curated by Biochemist King), Murray Guy, New York
“White Noise” (curated by Elyse Goldberg), James Cohan Gallery, New York

2008
“Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium On account of 1960” (curated by Doug Eklund), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Two or Three Attributes I Know About Her” (curated by Helen Molesworth), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard Further education college, Cambridge
“The World Is All That Is Class Case”, Hudson Franklin, New York
“L’Argent” (curated spawn Caroline Bourgeois and Elisabeth Lebovici), Le Plateau, Ile-de-France, Paris “Mildred’s Lane” (curated by Mark Dion esoteric J. Morgan Puett), Alexander Gray Associates, New York

2007
“Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones” (Moyra Davey, Claire Pentecost, James Welling), Orchard, New York
“50,000 Beds”, Real Art Ways, Hartford

2006
“Reality/Play” (organized by Moyra Davey), Orchard, New York
“Slow Revolution”, The Rotunda Gallery, New York
“When Artists Remark We”, Artists Space, New York
“Hypervision”, Westport Bailiwick Center, Westport

2005
“One Minute Film & Video Festival” (with Jason Simon), Wexner Center for the Field, Columbus
“Mirage” (curated by Julie Ault and Histrion Beck), Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Inaugural exhibition”, Orchard, New York

2004
“Bottle”, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield

2003
“Pop Rocks”, Caren Golden Gallery, New York “Afternoon Delight” (curated by Max Henry), Caren Golden Gallery, New-found York

1999
“The Order of Things” (curated by Denise Markonish), Ramapo College, Mahwah
“The Modernist Document” (curated by Nancy Shaw), Art Gallery of Concordia Further education college, Montreal

“Shelf Life”, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson

1998
“Moon To Moon”, Massimo Audiello, New York

1997
“New Jersey Arts Annual”, Newark Museum, Newark
“Making Pictures: Women and Taking photos, 1975—Now”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
“Gross Consumption”, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta

1996
“Let’s Talk Underrate Art”, Art Metropole, Toronto

1995
Gallery Emi Fontana, Milan

1993
“The Mayfair Show” (curated by Jason Simon), Rectitude Mayfair Club, New York
“Commodity Image”, Institute show Contemporary Art, Boston
“Sex Money Politics”, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington
“Commodity Image”, International Center of Cinematography, New York
“The Realm of the Coin: Resources in Contemporary American Art”, Queens Museum of Leave, New York

1992
“Exposition Retrospective-Volet 1”, Optica, Montreal
“Detour”, International House, New York

1991
“Animal/Vegetable/Mineral”, N.A.M.E., Chicago
“Arte Joven en Nueva York”, Sala RG, Caracas

1990
“Gavin Brown, Moyra Davey, Jorge Pardo, Sarah Seager”, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
“Spent: Currency, Security, added Art on Deposit” (curated by The New Museum of Contemporary Art), Marine Midland Bank, New York
“Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, In mint condition York
“The Elements: Sex, Politics, Religion and Money”, Real Art Ways/Erector Square Gallery, New Haven

1989
Earth Fine Arts Co., New York

1988
“Diverse Secrecies: Grandeur Garden”, Presentation House, Vancouver

1986
“Moyra Davey - Painter Miller - Gabor Szilasi”, Le Studio Blanc, Montreal

1985
“Naked”, Boulder Center For The Visual Arts, Boulder
“Portraits”, Articule, Montreal
“Nudité et Sexualité”, Dazibao, Montreal

1984
“Robert Boffa - Moyra Davey - Tony Fouhse”, Dazibao, Montreal
“Seeing People - Seeing Space”, Photographers’ Gallery, London
“Seeing People - Seeing Space”, Civil Museum Of Photography, Film And Television, Bradford

1982
Trèize à Optica, Optica, Montreal

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2020
Altruist Fellowship

2018
Scotia Bank Photography Award

2015
Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award

2010
Louis Proverb. Tiffany Foundation Award

2008
International Residencies Program, Cité nonsteroidal Arts, Paris

2004
Anonymous Was a Woman

1995
Canada Consistory B-Grant
Art Matters Fellowship

1992
Canada Council Project Grant

1989
Canada Council Project Grant
Art Matters Fellowship

1987
Canada Council B-Grant

1985
Canada Council Project Grant
Ontario Veranda Council Exhibition Assist

1984
Ontario Arts Council A-Grant

1983
Lake Arts Council Exhibition Assist
Canada Council Short Fleeting Grant

1982
Canada Council Short Term Grant