Biography
Kate Davis (b. Wellington, New Zealand 1977) studied at the Glasgow School of Art and now lives and works in Glasgow. She has had solo presentations at venues including Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin (2016); The Drawing Room, London (2012); and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2012). She has featured in group exhibitions at Tate Modern, London (2014), and Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2012), Temporary Gallery, Cologne; Galerie Kamm, Berlin; Museo de la Ciudad and La Galeria de Comercio, Mexico; CCA, Glasgow (with Faith Wilding); Kunsthalle Basel and Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow amongst others.
Recent group exhibitions/ screenings/ awards include: LUX/ BBC Artists and Archive commission; GENERATION exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; ‘HOUSE WORK CASTLE MILK WOMAN HOUSE’, Glasgow Women’s Library; ‘Art Under Attack’, Tate Britain; ‘For Each Gesture Another Character’, Art Stations Foundation, Poznan, Poland; ‘eva International 2012’, Limerick, Ireland; ‘Olinka or Where Movement is Created’, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; ‘Hymns for Mr Suzuki’, Abrons Arts Center, New York; ‘The End of the Line: Attitudes in Drawing’, Hayward Touring Exhibition; ‘Art Sheffield 10’ (collaborative commission with Jimmy Robert); ‘Das Gespinst’, Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach.
Kate Davis works across a range of media, including film/video, drawing, printmaking, installation and bookworks. Questioning how to bear witness to the complexities of the past, Davis’ artwork is an attempt to reconsider what certain histories could look, sound and feel like. This has often involved responding to the aesthetic and political ambiguities of historical art works and their reception.
