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Moyra Davey (born 1958) is an artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing.

Moyra Davey
Born	Moyra Frances Davey 1958 (age 63–64) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Known for	Photographer, video artist, writer

Early life

Moyra Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] Davey received a BFA from Concordia University in 1982 and a MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. In 1989, she attended The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.

Career

Since the late 1970s, Davey has built a body of work composed of photographs, writings, and video. She was previously a faculty member at the Bard College International Center of Photography Program.[2]

Davey is represented by greengrassi, London[3] and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York.

Solo exhibitions

• 1985 – Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
• 1994 – Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; American Fine Arts, Co., New York
• 2006 – Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio[4]
• 2008 – Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts[5]
• 2009 – My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
• 2010 – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland[6]
• 2013 – Ornament and Reproach, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
• 2013 – Hangmen of England, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
• 2014 – Burn the Diaries, Mumok, Vienna; Camden Arts Centre, 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 Photography Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
• 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 Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• 2020 – Lanak/Obras/Works, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Prizes and awards

• 2004 – Anonymous Was A Woman Award[7]
• 2010 – The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award[8][9]
• 2018 – Scotiabank Photography Award[10][11]
• 2020 – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship[12]
• 2022 - Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts[13]

Public collections

Davey's works are in the collections of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri;[14] the Museum of Modern Art,[15] New York; the Tate Modern,[16][17] London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[18] New York; the Art Institute of Chicago,[19] the Whitney Museum of American Art,[20] New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,[21] New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[22] the Museum of Contemporary Art,[23] Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art,[24] Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Art Gallery of Ontario,^{[failed verification]} Toronto.[25]

Publications

• Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. Edited by Moyra Davey (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2001). ISBN 1583220720
• The Problem of Reading (Los Angeles: Documents Books, 2003). ISBN 0974260509[26]
• Long Life Cool White: Photographs and Essays by Moyra Davey (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008). Introduction by Helen Molesworth. ISBN 9780300136463
• Copperheads (Toronto: Byewater Bros. Editions, 2010). ISBN 9780978078935
• Speaker Receiver (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2010). Essays by George Baker, Bill Horrigan, Chris Kraus, and Eric Rosenberg, and an interview by Adam Szymczyk. ISBN 9781934105207.
• The Wet and the Dry (Paris: Paraguay Press, 2011). Edited by castillo/corrales and Will Holder. ISBN 9782918252115
• Empties (Vancouver: Presentation House, 2013).
• Burn the Diaries (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, 2014). ISBN 9780985337728
• I'm Your Fan (London: Camden Arts Centre, 2014).
• Les Goddesses / Hemlock Forest (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press, 2017). Introduction by Aveek Sen. ISBN 9780998632605
• Gold Dumps and Ant Hills (Berlin: Toupée, 2017). ISBN 9783981735710
• Index Cards: Selected Essays (New Directions, 2020). Edited by Nicolas Linnert. ISBN 9780811229517
• I Confess (Ottawa/Brooklyn: National Gallery of Canada and Dancing Foxes Press, 2020). Essays by Dalie Giroux and Andrea Kunard. ISBN 9780888849960

References

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[de] Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey (* 1958 in Toronto) ist eine kanadische Fotografin, Mail-Art- und Videokünstlerin sowie Autorin.[1]

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- [en] Moyra Davey

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