Moyra Davey

The Coffee Shop, The Library, 2011 (detail). One of twenty-five digital C-prints, each 12 x 171⁄2 inches.
Courtesy the artist

Mary, Marie, 2012. Twelve digital C-prints, 38 x 74 inches overall. Courtesy the artist

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Toronto, Canada, 1958
Resides: New York, New York
Education: Whitney Independent Study Program, (1989); University of California, San Diego (M.F.A., 1988); Concordia University, Montréal (B.F.A., 1982)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012

Murray Guy, New York.
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago.

2011

greengrassi, London.

2010

"Speaker Receiver," Kunsthalle, Basel. Catalogue.

2009

"My Necropolis," Murray Guy, New York.

2008

"Long Life Cool White," The Fogg, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Catalogue.

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., New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012

"2012 Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue.

2011

"New Photography," The Museum of Modern Art, New York. "You Have Been There," Marian Goodman, Paris and New York. "Time Again," SculptureCenter, New York. "Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic," Murray Guy, New York.

2010

"The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
"Mixed Use Manhattan," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
"Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession," Swiss Institute, Rome.

2008

"L'Argent," Le Plateau, Ile-de-France, Paris.
"Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. "Two or Three Things I Know About Her," Carpenter Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2007

"Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones," Orchard, New York.

2006

"Reality/Play," Orchard, New York.

2005

"One Minute Film & Video Festival," Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio.
"Mirage," Alexander and Bonin, New York.
Orchard, New York.

1997

"Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975–Now," Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York.

Selected Bibliography

2012

Leaver-Yap, Isla. "Pygmalion Desire in Les Goddesses," Afterall (Spring).
Teasdale, Paul. "Les Goddesses," Frieze (January/February).

2011

Johnson, Ken. "New Photography 2011," The New York Times (October 14).
"Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic," The New Yorker (June 6).
Walczak, Antek. "Vision is Elastic. Thought is Elastic," Art-Agenda (May).

2010

Adams, James. "The Interior Shift of Photographer Moyra Davey," The Globe and Mail (November 2).
Baker, George. "Some Things Moyra Taught Me," Frieze (April).
Busta, Caroline. "Moyra Davey: Murray Guy," Artforum (March).
Davey, Moyra. Copperheads. Colborne, Ontario: Bywater Bros. Editions.
Lebovici, Elisabeth. "Moyra Davey, Speaker Receiver," May Revue (volume 10, number 5).
Maul, Tim. "Moyra Davey," Art in America (March).
Witkovsky, Matthew. "Another History of Abstraction," Artforum (March).

2009

Cooke, Lynne. "Top Ten," Artforum (December).
Cotter, Holland. "Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea," The New York Times (December 4).
"Moyra Davey," The New Yorker (December 21).

2008

Burton, Johanna. "Moyra Davey," Artforum (November).
Ebner, Shannon. "Best of 2008," Artforum (December).

2003

Davey, Moyra. The Problem of Reading. Montpelier: Vermont College of Fine Arts.

2001

Davey, Moyra, ed. Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood. New York: Seven Stories Press.