Tim Davis (artist)

Tim Davis (born 1969) is an American visual artist and poet, based in New York City and Tivoli, New York. He is the author and subject of several books of photography, plus a book of poetry. He was awarded the Rome Prize in 2007.

Life and work

Davis was born in Malawi. He graduated from Bard College and earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Yale University.

His photographic work delves into formal aspects of photography (light and abstraction) as well as socially engaged documentary.

Davis teaches in the photography program at Bard College. He lives and works in New York City and Tivoli, New York.

Publications

Photography

• Lots. Coromandel, 2002.
• Permanent Collection. Nazraeli, 2005. ISBN 978-1590051306.
• My Life in Politics. New York: Aperture, 2006. With essays by Davis and Jack Hitt. ISBN 978-1-59711-011-2.

Poetry

• American Whatever. Edge, 2004. ISBN 978-1890311179.

Exhibitions

• Outpost: photographs by Tim Davis, John Lehr and Michael Vahrenwald, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI, 2007[1]
• Tim Davis, The Upstate New York Olympics, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2012[2]
• Heavy Rotation, Franklin Street Works, 2012

Awards

• 2007: Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome[3]

References

1. "Three degrees of saturation". Detroit Metro Times. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
2. "Exhibitions: (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow)". Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
3. "American Academy in Rome - Carmela Vircillo Franklin 20th Director". web.archive.org. 30 April 2008. Retrieved 2020-09-07.

External links

• Artkrush.com - review of Tim Davis'My Life in Politics at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography, October 2006
• Original Ideas in Magic - a series of poems/photocollages in Triple Canopy (online magazine)