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Tim Davis

(American, born 1969)

Tim Davis

Frank, 2014

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Tim Davis

Like Parchment, 2014

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Tim Davis

Tim Davis: Forgeries

Tim Davis

Torch Song, Pitchfork Song, 2014

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Biography

Timeline

1969: Born in Blantyre, Malawi
1991: BA Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2001 - 2004: Taught at Yale University, New Haven, CT
2001: MFA Yale University, New Haven, CT
2004: Finalist, Discovery Award, Arles Photography Festival
2005: Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Awards
2007 - 2008: Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize
: Currently teaches at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Exhibitions

2014: Transit Byzantium, The Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH (solo)
2013: Quinto Quarto, Rome Commission, Macro Museum, Rome Italy (solo)
: Spectators, Rendered and Regulated, Koenig & Clinton, New York, NY
: Balls to the Wall, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
: Postscript, The Power Station, Toronto, Canada
: TAV Bolognia-MIlanio, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
: The origin of the world /\ the force of the source \/ the cause of the vigor, Samsøn Projects, Boston, MA
: Serious Laughs, UPAC, Kingston, NY curated by Daniel Mason
: Contemporary Russian Photography: Fotofest 2012 Biennial, Houston, TX (catalogue)
: Heavy Rotation, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
: Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: LOL, Albany Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
: Dollar General Drive By, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2012: The Upstate New York Olympics, Moscow Photobiennale, Moscow, Russia (solo)
: 34th Annual Photography Regional, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
2011: Vassar 150 Years Later: New Photography by Tina Barney, Tim Davis, Katherine Newbegin, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, curated by Mary Kay Lombino
: Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, VA
: The Life and Death of Buildings, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: Fotographia: Festival Internazionale di Roma, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
: Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Beil/Bienne, Switzerland
: Tim Davis: The New Antiquity, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy (solo)
: The Upstate New York Olympics: Tim Davis, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (solo)
: Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Remains of Today, Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome, Italy
: Town & Country, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, cuarted by Trevor Winkfield
: Lush Life, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY, curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud
: Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Town & Country, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Trevor Winkfield
2010: B Sides: A Dialogue with Contemporary U.S. Photography, FotoFest, Inc., Houston, TX
: Remains of Today, Brancolini Grimaldi, Rome, Italy
2009 - 2010: Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2009: Two Years, Mitterrand + Sanz Contemporary Art, Zurich
: The New Antiquity, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: My Life in Politics, New School of Art Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (solo)
: Tim Davis: Seeing Through History, Gallery @ The Dubois Fort, New Paltz, NY (solo)
: The Leisure Suite, The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
: Beware of the Wolf, American Academy in Rome, Italy
: FotoGrafia - Rome's International Festival, VII Edition, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Italy
: States of Mind, curated by Elena Bordignon, Th-Inside, Brussels, Belgium traveling to Copenhagen, Denmark (publication) (forthcoming)
: The Innerworld of the Outerworld of the Innerworld, Von Lintel Gallery, NY
: Signs Signs Everywhere a Sign, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, NY
: Kings of Cyan, Mitterrand + Sanz, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2008: My Life in Politics, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: To: Night (Contemporary Representations of the Night), The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY, curated by Joachim Pissarro, Mara Hoberman and Julia Moreno (catalogue)
: Aftermodern Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Outpost, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
: Prints, Nelson Hancock Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: Site Inscription, Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery, New York, NY
2007: Permanent Collection, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (solo)
: Practical f/x, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
: Easy Rider, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
: The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern, London, England (publication)
: Permanent Collection, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Dead Serious, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
: The Gold Standard, P.S.1, Queens, NY
: The Office/In and Out of the Box, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
: My Life if Politics, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Il (solo)
: Taken For Looks, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida
: Tina b.: The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
: Illilluminations, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
: Second Sight: Originality, Duplicity and the Object, Loeb Art Center
: Still Lives and Stilled Lives, Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery
: Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
: Slow Down, Pilar, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
2005: Permanent Collection, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Ga
: Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award, Photographic Resource Center, Boston
: Permanent Collection, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, Fl.
: This Must Be The Place, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
: The Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
: Tim Davis, Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
2004: Art and Architecture, 1900-2000,, Genova Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
: My Life in Politics, Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
2003: Office, The Photographer's Gallery, London, U.K.
: Office, The Photographer's Gallery, London, U.K
: My Life in Politics, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY -solo
: Scrutiny, Bohen Foundation, New York, NY - solo
: Tim Davis, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland - solo
: Boomerang/Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
2002: Tim Davis, (solo exhibition) Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
: The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
: American Standard, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
2001: Summer 2001, Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
: Settings & Players, Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography (group exhibition), WHITE CUBE2 , London, U. K.
: Workspheres, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Hypoluxo Road, Brent Sikkema, New York -solo
: Retail, WHITE CUBE2, London, U. K. -solo
: American, Postmasters, New York, NY
: New York Show, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
2000: Foreign Bodies, Untitled Space Gallery, New Haven, CT
: New York Show, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

Public Collections

: University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
: Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, New York
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
: Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
: Citibank Collection, New York
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
: Arcadia University Art Gallery, Pennsylvania
: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
: The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
: Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
: Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
: Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York
: International Center of Photography, New York
: Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut
: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Literature

2012: Contemporary Russian Photography: Fotofest Biennial, Fotofest Inc., Houston, TX, 2012, vol. 2 p. 187 (illus.).
2011: Journées photographiques de Bienne Bieler Fototage - Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography, Bienne Bieler Fototage, 2011, p. 36 – 39 (illus.).
: Smith, Joel, The Life and Death of Buildings: On Photography and Time, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011, illus. p. 70.
: 150 Years Later, exhibition catalogue, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2011.
2009: The New Antiquity, monograph, Damiani Editore, 2009.
2008: States of Mind: Young American Photography, exhibition catalogue, TH-Inside, Brussels and Copenhagen, 2008.
: To: Night (Contemporary Representations of the Night), exhibition catalogue, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, 2008.
: America: Three Hundred Years of Innovation, exhibition catalogue, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, 2007.
2007: K/R: Projects, Writings/Buildings, photo essay by Tim Davis, Ten Thousand One, 2007.
2006: Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, Phaidon, 2006.
: My Life in Politics, monograph, Aperture/Blindspot, 2006.
2005: Permanent Collection, monograph, Nazraeli Press, 2005
2004: American Whatever, book of poetry by Tim Davis, Edge Books, 2004.
: Seduire/Seduce, exhibition catalogue, Coromandel Express, Paris, France, 2002.
2002: Lots, Tim Davis, monograph, essay by David Levi-Strauss, Coromandel Design, Paris, 2002.
: American Standard, exhibition catalogue, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, 2002.
2000: Dailies, book of poetry by Tim Davis, The Figures Press, 2000.