
Karin Davie in her studio, Seattle, WA, 2024.
Karin Davie (b. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and her BFA from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 2006, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum exhibited a major solo retrospective of Davie’s early to mid-career work. Davie has received numerous distinguished awards over the course of her career, including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Award in 2015.
Davie’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; CHART, New York, NY; Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY; SITE, Santa Fe, NM; Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; White Cube, London, United Kingdom; and Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY, among others.
The artist has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Tate St. Ives International and Contemporary Art, Cornwall, United Kingdom; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Nerman Museum Of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; and elsewhere.
Davie lives and works in Seattle, WA.