Kate Davis: CV

• Info
• Exhibitions
• Works
• CV
• Press
• Publications

Born: 1977, New Zealand

Based: Glasgow

Represented by: Galerie Kamm, Berlin; Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow

Education

2000–2001	MPhil Art & Design in Organisational Contexts, Glasgow School of Art
1997–2000	BA(hons) Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
1996–1997	BTEC Art & Design, Norwich School of Art & Design

Current & Forthcoming Exhibitions

2008	Outsider, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow 23rd Aug–27th Sep
	The Caravan Club, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Group exhibition) 22nd Nov–10th Jan

Solo Exhibitions

2007	The clear stark vision is getting lost again, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
	‘Waiting in 1972; What about 2007?’, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Solo Statement)
	‘Your Body is a Battleground Still’, Art Now, Tate Britain, London
2006	‘I want to function in the present time’, Art Forum, Berlin (Solo Statement)
	STOP! STOP! STOP!, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
	Build Cracks, Dicksmith Gallery, London
2005	Could we? I am asking, The Breeder, Athens
2004	Participant, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
2001	The Species of the Origin, The Park Gallery, Falkirk

Group Exhibitions

2008	Our Sorry Minds, 61 Parnie Street, Glasgow (with Neil Bickerton)
	The Object is the Mirror (Part II), Wilkinson, London (Curated by Max Henry)
2007	Naked Intruder Tries on Jacket, Aye Aye Book Depot, Glasgow (curated by Kate Davis)
	Like Leaves, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (curated by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith)
	Poetical Political, Simon Lee Gallery, London (curated by David Thorpe. With Claire Fontaine, Olaf Nicolai, Jordan Wolfson)
2006	‘If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution’, De Appel, Amsterdam (Curated by Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher)
	Group Show, Anna Helwing, Los Angeles
	Liste, Basel
	The Endless Summer, Westlondonprojects, London
2005	The Music of the Future, Gasworks Gallery, London (curated by Laurence Kavanagh)
	Frieze Art Fair, London
	Group Exhibition, Transmission, Glasgow (two person show)
	MiArt, Milan
	Exile: New York is a Good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
2004	Group Exhibition, Temporary Office Space, Glasgow
	Flesh at War with Enigma, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
	Country Grammar, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
	Group Exhibition, Centre de Creation, Bazouges la Perouse
	Group Exhibition, The Rheinschau, Art Cologne, Cologne (with Transmission)
	The Rheinschau, Art Cologne, Cologne
	Glasgow in Valligia, Museo Corta Alta, Fossombrone
	Like beads on an abacus designed to calculate infinity, Rockwell, London
	See Through Mask, Temporary Art Space, Glasgow
	Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich
	Wider than the Sky, 117 Commercial Street, London
2003	Zenomap, Venice Biennale, Venice (Commission for the Scottish Pavilion)
	Corpa Nova, 27 Spittal Square, London
	EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (curated by Toby Webster and Eva Rothschild)
	Goshka Macuga - Picture Room, Gasworks Gallery, London
	I Could Be Happy, Gagosian Gallery, London
	Minerals in the Water, The Changing Room, Stirling (Alan Michael, Kate Davis and Dirk Bell)
	Mother Nature, Vilma Gold, London
	Use Your Illusion, Intermedia, Glasgow
2002	Group Exhibition, Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow (with Transmission)
	Half the World Away, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo
	Tableware, The Lighthouse, Glasgow (with Lapland)
	When That Great Day Comes, Generator, Dundee
2001	Austrotel, Vienna Art Fair, Vienna (with Transmission)
	Members’ Show, Transmission, Glasgow
	The Archaic Hand, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow
2000	Poster Intervention, Ibrox Underground Station, Glasgow
	SSA Contemporary Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
	The Crawford Open, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork

Awards/Grants/Residencies

2008	Cove Park Visual Artists Residency
2007	Scottish Arts Council Artist Award
2006	Scottish Sculpture Workshop Residency
2005	Artist in Residence, CCA, Glasgow
	Glasgow City Council Artist’s Award
2004	Artist’s Page, Untitled Magazine
2003	Glasgow City Council Artist’s Award
2002	Committe Member, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
	Scottish Arts Council Individual Artist’s Assistance Grant
	Scottish Arts Council Individual Professional Development Grant
2001	Scottish Arts Council Individual Artist’s Assistance Grant
2000	Chairman’s Medal for Fine Art
	Newberry Medal Nominee, Glasgow School of Art
	Society of Scottish Artists Award

Publications

2007	‘Waiting in 1972; What About 2007?’ (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow)
2006	Bread (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow)
2005	Partners (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow)
	Could we? I am asking. (The Breeder, Athens)
	Build Cracks (Dicksmith Gallery, London)
2004	Flesh at War with Enigma (Kunsthalle Basel, Basel)
	Exhibition Brochure 01 (Kunsthalle Basel, Basel)
2003	Norwich Gallery East (Norwich Gallery, Norwich)
2002	(Hallwalls contemporary Arts Center)

Press

2007	Rosalind Nashashibi, ‘Top Ten’, Artforum, October 2007
	Melissa Gronlund, ‘Poetical Political’, frieze, September 2007
	John Calcutt, ‘Could We? I Am Asking’, The Map 10, June 2007
	Emily Pethick in conversation with Annie Fletcher and Frederique Bergholz, ‘If I Can’t Dance’, Untitled Spring 2007, March 2007
	Laurence Figgis, ‘Bread’, The Map 8, March 2007
	Isla Leaver-Yap and Steven Cairns, ‘Kate Davis’, The Map 8, March 2007
	Marcus Field, ‘Flesh wounds’, The Independent, 4th February 2007
	Steve Cairns, ‘Kate Davis Interview’, The List, 18th January 2007
2006	Laurence Figgis, ‘Bread - Kate Davis’, The Map 8, December 2006
	Martin Croomer, ‘Dicksmith, East End’, Time Out London, 1st August 2006
	Charles Danby, ‘Kate Davis’, Untitled 37, May 2006
	‘Breakthroughs’, The List, 5th January 2006
2005	‘News: Europe’, Flash Art 244, October 2005
	‘Art Beat’, The List, September 2005
	Sarah Lowndes, ‘Kate Davis’, frieze 91, May 2005
	Caoimhin MacGiollaleith, ‘Participator, Kate Davis, Glasgow’, The Map 1, April 2005
	Alexander Kennedy, ‘Kate Davis and Henrik Olesen’, The List, 31st March 2005
	Moria Jeffrey, ‘Kate Davis It’s Truly an Education’, The Herald, 7th January 2005
2004	Alexander Kennedy, ‘Kate Davis’, The List, 16th December 2004
	‘Kate Davis Three pictures at an exhibition, one pink plinth … and you’, Sunday Herald, 5th December 2004
	‘Kate Davis’, a-n Magazine, November 2004
	Alexander Kennedy, ‘Visual Art’, The List, 7th October 2004
	Catriona Black, ‘This is the modern world’, Sunday Herald, 3rd October 2004
	Gale Iain, ‘Revolution in their Heads’, Scotland on Sunday, 25th September 2004
	Helen Monaghan, The Herald, 16th September 2004
	Moira Jeffrey, ‘When a picture paints …’, The Herald, September 2004
	Anke Kempes, ‘Julian Gothe’, Ausstellungsbroschure 01, June 2004
	‘Kate Davis’, Open frequency, 2004
2003	Sarah Lowndes, frieze 74, April 2003
	In Depth Art News, 25th January 2003
	Kate Davis, ‘Kate Davis on Eileen Agars’ ‘Angel of Anarchy”, Tate Magazine Autumn 2006