Kate Davis: CV

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• Exhibitions
• Works
• CV
• Press
• Publications

Born: 1977, New Zealand

Based: Glasgow

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

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

2010	The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection: Project Space 176, London (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers) 25th Feb–9th May
	A Conversation between A and B, Art Sheffield 2010, Sheffield (Commissioned collaboration with Jimmy Robert. Curated by Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher.) 6th Mar–1st May
	The Long Loch: How Do We Go On From Here?, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (Two-person commission with Faith Wilding for Glasgow International) 16th Apr–29th May

Solo Exhibitions

2009	2 or 3 things I know about her, FOUR, Dublin (with Jimmy Robert)
2008	Outsider, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
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

2010	A Conversation between A and B, Art Sheffield 2010, Sheffield (Commissioned collaboration with Jimmy Robert. Curated by Frederique Bergholtz and Annie Fletcher.)
	The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection: Project Space 176, London (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers)
2009	Single, Plural, Multiple, Occasionals, London
	The End of Line: attitudes in drawing, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Hayward Touring Exhibition on behalf of Arts Council England. With Jan Albers, Michael Borremans, Marc Brandenburg, Fernando Bryce, Monika Grzymala, David Haines, Kim Hiorthoy, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Garrett Phelan and Naoyuki Tsuji)
	Die Show im Oktober, Transmission, Glasgow (Walead Beshty, Ann Bowman, Will Bradley, Ruth Buchanan, Kate Davis, Kathryn Elkin, Embassy, Laurie Figgis, Michael Fullerton, Generator, Steve Helm, David Hoyle, Anthony Iles, Fiona Jardine, Rachel Koolan, Anna McCarthy, Jack McConville)
	Das Gespinst, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (with Monika Baer, Nairy Baghramian, Jennifer Bornstein, Andrea Bowers, Meg Cranston, Richard Hawkins, Zoe Leonard, Liz Larner, Rita McBride, Cady Noland, Cathy Wilkes and Christopher Williams)
	The End of Line: attitudes in drawing, City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol (Hayward Touring Exhibition. With Jan Albers, Michael Borremans, Marc Brandenburg, Fernando Bryce, Monika Grzymala, David Haines, Kim Hiorthoy, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Garrett Phelan and Naoyuki Tsuji)
	When the Mood Strikes: The Collection of Wilfried and Yannicke Cooreman, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
	I am a Camera, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
	The End of Line: attitudes in drawing, The Bluecoat, Liverpool (Hayward Touring Exhibition. With Jan Albers, Michael Borremans, Marc Brandenburg, Fernando Bryce, Monika Grzymala, David Haines, Kim Hiorthoy, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Garrett Phelan and Naoyuki Tsuji)
	New Acquisitions from the Arts Council Collection 2008-9, Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire
	Time after Time, Galerie Kamm, Berlin (with Annette Kisling, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Bernd Ribbeck, Albrecht Schäfer)
	The End of Line: attitudes in drawing, MIMA, Middlesborough (Hayward Touring Exhibition. With Jan Albers, Michael Borremans, Marc Brandenburg, Fernando Bryce, Monika Grzymala, David Haines, Kim Hiorthoy, Sandra Vasquez de la Horra, Garrett Phelan and Naoyuki Tsuji)
	Don’t expect anything, Francesca Minini, Milan (with Becky Beasley, Nina Beier & Marie Lund, Karla Black, Katinka Bock, Annette Kisling, Lorna Macintyre, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Openheim and Susanne Winterling)
2008	‘To bring forth and give’ Sorcha Dallas Artist’s Print Project, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow (curated by Sorcha Dallas)
	Open Field, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Group exhibition)
	Concrete Shadows, The Changing Room, Stirling (with Ines Schaber, Lucy Skaer and Catherine Street.)
	Frieze Art Fair, London
	Our Sorry Minds, 61 Parnie Street, Glasgow (with Neil Bickerton)
	The Object is the Mirror (Part II), Wilkinson, London (Curated by Max Henry)
	Windows Project: Keep the IS in Feminism, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (project commission: Dave Dyment, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Myfanwy Macleod, Kelly Mark, Randy Lee Cutler, Micah Lexier, Isabelle Pauwels, Kristina Podesva, Hadley + Maxwell, FASTWÜRMS, Jeanne Randolph, Martha Wilson, Elizabeth Zvonar)
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
	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

2010	Camden Arts Centre Artist in Residence (Jan-Feb in conjunction with the Eva Hesse studioworks exhibition)
2009	Editioned artwork commission for Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
2008	Banff Arts Center, Canada: Visual Arts Residency
	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

2009	A Happeneds (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow)
2008	Central Woman (Cove Park, Argyll and Bute)
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)
2003	Norwich Gallery East (Norwich Gallery, Norwich)
2002	(Hallwalls contemporary Arts Center)

Press

2009	Susan Mansfield, ‘Review’, The Scotsman, 1st December 2009
	Miriam Sturdee, ‘Review’, The List, 19th November 2009
	Isla Leaver-Lap, ‘Eva Hesse: Present Tense’, The Map 19, October 2009
	Jack Mottram, ‘Putting Herself on a Pedestal’, The Herald, 12th September 2009
	Susan Mansfield, ‘Review’, The Scotsman, 14th July 2009
	Talitha Kotzé, ‘Review’, The List 633, 9th July 2009
	James Garner, ‘Review’, The Metro, 26th June 2009
	‘Review Recommends’, Scotland on Sunday, 31st May 2009
	Liz Shannon, ‘On the record’, The List, 28th May 2009
	‘Hit List - The Best Exhibitions’, The List, 28th May 2009
	Joanna Pitman, ‘Skills from the top drawer’, The Times, 10th March 2009
	Laura Allsop, ‘Review’, Art Review 30, March 2009
	Robert Clark, ‘The End of the Line/Raising the Bar’, The Guardian, 28th February 2009
	‘The End Of The Line: Raising the Bar’, The Guardian G2, 28th February 2009
	Karen McLauchlan, ‘Drawing on the best art’, Whatsonne, 27th February 2009
	Lauren Laverne, ‘Lauren Laverne’s Must List’, Grazia Magazine, 23rd February 2009
	Tamzin Lewis, ‘Underlining Drawing’s’, The Journal, 21st February 2009
	Tamzin Lewis, ‘Underlining drawing’s’, The Journal, 21st February 2009
	‘Artists will be a draw’, The Evening Gazette, 11th February 2009
2008	Jack Mottram, ‘When Exhibitions Hang Together’, The Herald, 12th December 2008
	James Garner, ‘Review’, The Metro, 9th December 2008
	Susan Mansfield, ‘Works in Progress’, The Scotsman, 5th December 2008
	James Garner, ‘Review’, The Metro, 1st December 2008
	Andrew Eaton, ‘Review’, The Scotsman, 22nd November 2008
	Rory Weller, ‘Five Questions For… Belinda Gilbert Scott’, The Metro, 21st November 2008
	‘Unique In Their Fields’, Sunday Herald, 20th November 2008
	Laura McLean-Ferris, ‘Exhibitionist: What to see this week’, The Guardian, 14th November 2008
	Liz Shannon, ‘Big tent approach’, The List, 13th November 2008
	‘Review’, The List, 13th November 2008
	‘Review’, The Big Issue Scotland, 13th November 2008
	Jill Sawyer, ‘Artist Kate Davis Steps into the video world’, The Banff Centre Report to the Community, November 2008
	Sarah Lowndes, ‘Review’, Art on Paper, November 2008
	Dominique Carrier, ‘Scotch artist supported by, well, Scotch’, Rocky Mountain Outlook, 30th October 2008
	‘Art Show for Caravan Club’, Evening Times, 15th October 2008
	Moira Jeffrey, ‘Review’, Scotland on Sunday, 31st August 2008
	Dave Pollock, ‘Review’, The List, 21st August 2008
	Sherman Sam, ‘Insider: inventing drawing’, Commissioned Text, August 2008
2007	Rosalind Nashashibi, ‘Top Ten’, Artforum, October 2007
	Melissa Gronlund, ‘Poetical Political’, frieze, September 2007
	Martin Coomer, ‘Battlelines’, The Big Issue Scotland, September 2007
	Simon Lee, ‘Poetical Political’, Time Out London, August 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
	‘Kate Davis’, Open frequency, 2004
	Alexa Holt, ‘Glasgow’, Contemporary Magazine, 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