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Lisa Corinne Davis - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Lisa Corinne Davis in her studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2024.

Lisa Corinne Davis (b. 1958 in Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York, NY and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College, New York, NY. Since 1993, Davis has held teaching positions at some of the top art schools in the United States; she is currently the Co-MFA Director at Hunter College. Davis is a member of the National Academy of Design and a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts.

Recent solo exhibitions include “Convulsive Calculations,” Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; “You Are Here?,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “All Shook Up,” Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; “Turbulent Terrain,” Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; “No THERE there...,” Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL; Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY; and “Location... location...,” Farmer Family Gallery, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH.

Davis’ work has been included in institutional group exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, NY; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; New York Studio School, New York, NY; Schloss Plüschow, Uphal, Germany; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY; and the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, among others.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Beinecke Collection, Yale University, New Haven, CT; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C.; New York Public Library, New York, NY; Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA; U.S. Embassy, Lomé, Togo; U.S. Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, and elsewhere.

The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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