Michael Davis is a painter and draughtsman. He graduated in 1979 from Princeton University, where he studied painting with Sean Scully and Jerry Buchanan. His work has been exhibited at museums and galleries including P.S. 1, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Clocktower Gallery, the New York City Gallery, the National Academy of Design, Princeton University Art Museum, and Rutgers University.
Davisʼs paintings – including commissioned portraits – are in private collections in the U.S. and Europe, and were included by The Museum of Modern Art in the 2000 Kwangju (South Korea) Bienniale. In 1996 he created digital paintings for Mabou Mines theater ensembleʼs “An Epidog.” He has taught drawing and painting at Brooklyn College, Parsons School of Design and the 92nd Street Y, and taught as a visiting artist at the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University.
Michael's work has been reviewed positively in journals and newspapers including Art Forum, Art News, Art in America, The New Yorker, the New York Times and others. Examples of his painting and drawing (on which he has recently concentrated) can be seen on his website, www.michaeljohndavis.net
Education
B.A., Art History, Princeton University, Summa Cum Laude
Exhibitions
Upcoming October 2013
William Holman Gallery | New York | New York | Michael Davis, Paintings and Drawings (cat.)
1990 - Present
Approximately 30 Public and Private Portrait Commissions
2013
Co- Curator | “Unsteady Ground, What is Drawing” | City Without Walls Gallery | Newark, NJ
William Holman Gallery | Summer Show | New York |NY
Rabbithole Studios |Reflections and Recollections | Brooklyn, New York
William Holman Gallery | Drawings by Gallery Artists (cat.) | New York | New York
2012
William Holman Gallery | New York | New York
Inaugural Exhibition: Nine Artists (cat.)
2011
Governor’s Island Art Fair, New York City
Curator | “Private Eyes,” I Made an Art, Red Hook Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2010
I Made an Art, Red Hook Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “Secret Sale”, New York City
2009
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “Secret Sale”, New York City
2000
Kwangju Biennale (North American artist), Kwangju, South Korea (cat.)
1998
Ceiling Murals | The New York Public Library, Rose Reading Room
1997
DFN Gallery, New York City
1996
Digital Paintings | Mabou Mines Theater Company’s Production of “An Epilog”
Stuart Levy Fine Art New York | New York
1995
“Eros and Identity,” Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York City
Wayne Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
Creative Artists Network Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Creative Artists Network
Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Federal Reserve Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1994
“Re: Animating - Paintings and Drawings by Michael Davis,” The James Howe Gallery, Kean College of New Jersey (cat.)
Creative Artists Network, Philadelphia, PA
1991
“Vanitas, Six Still Life Painters,” New York City Gallery, New York City (cat.)
1990
“The Doghouse,” The Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York City (cat.)
Faculty Exhibition, Parsons School of Design, New York City
1988
Annual Juried Exhibition, The National Academy of Design, New York City (cat.)
1987
“Michael Davis - Paintings and Drawings,” Art Galaxy, New York City
“The Self Portrait - Tangible Consciousness,” Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University
1986
“Jerry Buchanan, Michael Davis, Heidi Gluck, Stephen Ludlum, Milton Resnick,” Art Galaxy, New York City
Annual Juried Exhibition, The National Academy of Design, New York City (cat.)
1983
“Inside Works,” The Clocktower Gallery, New York City
A.I.R. Gallery, New York City
1982
“Redirection,” D.T.W. Gallery, New York City
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ.
Awards
2011
Dave Brown Projects, 2nd Semiannual Competition Prize
2010
Artist of the Day, January 21, (2010, artistaday.com)
1982-84
National Studio Artist, Institute for Art and Urban Resources (P.S.1), New York City
1978-1979
Francis Le Moyne Page Thesis Award for Visual Art, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
1998 Art New England Summer Workshops at Bennington College 1996 Founder of “The Arts Forum” on the World Wide Web.
1995 Faculty, Art Department, Brooklyn College
1993 Faculty, Art Department, Brooklyn College
1992-93 Faculty, Art Center at The 92nd Street Y
1990-91 Faculty, Department of Fine Art, Parsons School of Design 1990 Visiting Critic, University of Pennsylvania
1989 Visiting Critic, Brooklyn College
1987 Visiting Critic, Princeton University
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Asiana Airlines Magazine, eds. “The New Millennium’s First Biennale”, March 2000, Vol. 12, no. 3. Ill. p. 12.
Bass, Ruth. “Vanitas: Six Still Life Painters”, Art News, no. 8 (Oct. 1991), P 138
Brenson, Michael. “Art: Juried Exhibition at the National Academy”,
The New York Times, Weekend Section, April 25, 1986, p. C25.
Finkelpearl, Thomas. “The Western Mirror”, Man + Space, Kwangju Biennale 2000. cat. Pp. 160-167. Kwangju Press, Korea.
Hoffmann, Frank. “Monoculture and its Discontents”, Art in America, (Nov. 2000), P 71, ill. Levy, Ellen. “Re:Animating. Painting and Works on Paper. Michael Davis.” cat. The James Howe Gallery. (February 1995).
McClelland, Deke & Phillips, Robert. “Photoshop 3.0 Bible Windows Ed”, IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. (1996).
Shepard, Joan. “The Arts Community”, The New York Daily News, Jan. 30. 1983, p. MB8. Tillim, Sidney. “Michael Davis at Art Galaxy”, Art In America, no. 7 (July 1987),
p. 126, ill.
Zimmer, William. “At Rutgers: An Exhibition of Unusual Self - Portraits”,
The New York Times, Section II, July 19, 1987, p.20
