Moyra Davey


Moyra Davey is a Canadian artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing.

Early life

Moyra Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. 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 an increasingly influential body of work composed of photographs, writings, and video. She was previously a faculty member at the Bard College International Center of Photography Program.

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Davey's works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

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