Moyra Davey

♀ *1958 / Canada

Works

Solo exhibitions

Moyra Davey

n.b.k., Berlin (DE)
6 Dec 2025 – 8 Feb 2026
Les Goddesses and Notes on Blue

For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability Screening Room Series

MCASD Downtown, San Diego (US)
17 Oct 2024 – 3 Nov 2024
Horse Opera, 2019–2022

HD video with sound, 60 minutes

Higher Pictures, Brooklyn (US)
5 Jun 2024 – 19 Jul 2024
Visitor

Skeletal Buddha (2017)

greengrassi, London (GB)
2 Mar 2023 – 22 Apr 2023
My Saints

Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (DE)
18 Apr 2021 – 8 Aug 2021
The Faithful

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA)
1 Oct 2020 – 3 Jan 2021
i confess

greengrassi, London (GB)
5 Sep 2019 – 26 Oct 2019
Les Goddesses

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
19 Jul 2019 – 6 Oct 2019
Scotiabank Photography Award

The Image Centre, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2019 – 5 Aug 2019
HELL NOTES

Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (DE)
17 Feb 2018 – 8 Apr 2018
1943

Galerie Buchholz NY, New York (US)
1 Mar 2018 – 7 Apr 2018
Hell Notes

Portikus, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
9 Dec 2017 – 28 Jan 2018
Moyra Davey

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln (DE)
8 Sep 2017 – 28 Oct 2017
Portrait / Landscape

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin (DE)
30 Aug 2017 – 21 Oct 2017
Hemlock Forest

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
28 Oct 2016 – 8 Jan 2017
Moyra Davey

Murray Guy, New York (US)
16 Apr 2016 – 21 May 2016
You’re a nice guy to let me hold you like this

greengrassi, London (GB)
4 Sep 2015 – 24 Oct 2015
Moyra Davey

Photography Is ______________.

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (US)
1 Nov 2014 – 12 Apr 2015
Burn the Diaries

ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (US)
19 Sep 2014 – 28 Dec 2014
life without sheets of paper to be scribbled on is masterpiece

Camden Arts Centre, London (GB)
11 Apr 2014 – 29 Jun 2014
Burn the Diaries

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
21 Feb 2014 – 25 May 2014
Ornament and Reproach

Murray Guy, New York (US)
1 Mar 2014 – 5 Apr 2014
Ornament and Reproach

The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
8 Nov 2013 – 18 Jan 2014
Hangmen of England

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (GB)
8 Jun 2013 – 6 Oct 2013
Spleen. Indolence. Torpor. III-humour

Murray Guy, New York (US)
29 Mar 2012 – 6 May 2012
In the Spirit of Walser: MOYRA DAVEY

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (US)
6 Jan 2012 – 2 Feb 2012
Les Goddesses

greengrassi, London (GB)
17 Sep 2011 – 29 Oct 2011
Speaker Receiver

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH)
17 Jun 2010 – 29 Aug 2010
My Necropolis

Murray Guy, New York (US)
7 Nov 2009 – 24 Dec 2009

Group

Terminal Piece

MUMOK Museum, Wien (AT)
20 Jun 2026 – 7 Feb 2027

with Magdalena Abakanowicz, Art & Language , Anna & Bernhard Blume, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Carla Degenhardt, Sara Deraedt, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Richard Hamilton, Birgit Juergenssen, Juergen Klauke …
Image as Trace II

Brunette Coleman, London (GB)
5 Jun 2026 – 11 Jul 2026

with Zazou Roddam
Unter dem Gewicht atmest du anders. Schuld und Haben

GAK Gesellschaft Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE)
7 Jun 2025 – 7 Sep 2025

with Santu Mofokeng, Jochen Schmith
A Portrait in Fragments

Kunstverein Rheinlande, Düsseldorf (DE)
29 Jun 2024 – 22 Sep 2024

with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Herve Guibert
Forks & Spoons

curated by m.d.

Galerie Buchholz NY, New York (US)
19 Apr 2024 – 18 May 2024

with Justine Kurland, Shala Miller, Alix Cleo Roubaud, Carla Williams, Francesca Woodman
Trust Me

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
19 Aug 2023 – 25 Feb 2024

with Laura Aguilar, Genesis Baez, Alvin Baltrop, Jenny Calivas, Barbara Hammer, Muriel Hasbun, D'Angelo Lovell Williams , Dakota Mace
good news!

Dorothée Nilsson, Berlin (DE)
14 Jul 2023 – 1 Sep 2023

with Lisa Röing Baer, Anna R. Winder
The Accursed Share

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
17 Mar 2023 – 27 May 2023

with Marwa Arsanios, Sammy Baloji
Bonds of Love

Delpire & Co, Paris (FR)
15 Feb 2023 – 15 Apr 2023

with Justine Kurland
CORRESPONDENCES

KM Galerie, Berlin (DE)
25 Feb 2023 – 15 Apr 2023

with Martin Beck, Patrick Faigenbaum, Simone Gilges, Herve Guibert, Kristin Loschert, Danh Vo
The Scotiabank Photography Award 2010 – 2022

A retrospective of Canada’s Foremost Photography Prize

Canada House Gallery, London (GB)
12 Oct 2022 – 7 Jan 2023

with Deanna Bowen, Dana Claxton, Lynne Cohen, Stan Douglas, Angela Grauerholz, Suzy Lake, Arnaud Maggs, Shelley Niro, Mark Ruwedel, Stephen Waddell, Jin-me Yoon
Regards de Femmes / Women’s Perspectives

Fondation A Stichting, Brussels (BE)
24 Sep 2022 – 18 Dec 2022

with Yolanda Andrade, Diane Arbus, Paz Errazuriz, Graciela Iturbide, Tarrah Krajnak, Zoe Leonard, Adriana Lestido, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Gabriele & Helmut Nothhelfer, Martha Rosler, Judith Joy Ross …
Photographic Pictures

curated by Anne Collier

Anton Kern Gallery, New York (US)
30 Jun 2022 – 26 Aug 2022

with Julie Becker, Anne Collier, Luigi Ghirri, Joseph Grigely, Herve Guibert, Leslie Hewitt, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Judy Linn, Marlo Pascual, Jack Pierson, Melanie Schiff …
Understudies:

I, Myself Will Exhibit Nothing

KW Kunst-Werke Berlin, Berlin (DE)
23 Oct 2021 – 9 Jan 2022

with Geta Bratescu, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Iman Issa, Sergei Parajanov, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group)
What Does Democracy Look Like?

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
1 Oct 2020 – 23 Dec 2020

with Bruce Davidson, Geissler & Sann
Moyra Davey Peter Hujar

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin (DE)
13 Feb 2020 – 11 Apr 2020

with Peter Hujar
Postcards

News from a dream world

Rencontres Arles, Arles (FR)
1 Jul 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Eric Baudart, Fredi Casco, Walker Evans, Roc Herms, Susan Hiller, John Hinde, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Katia Kameli, Aglaia Konrad, Valerie Mrejen, Adam Page, Martin Parr …
snap+share

transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
30 Mar 2019 – 4 Aug 2019

with Thomas Bachler, David Horvitz, Ray Johnson, Erik Kessels, Eva & Franco Mattes, Corinne Vionnet
Stillleben

Eigensinn der Dinge

Kunst Haus Wien, Wien (AT)
13 Sep 2018 – 17 Feb 2019

with Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Dirk Braeckman, Tacita Dean, Gerald Domenig, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Manuel Gorkiewicz, Jan Groover, Matthias Herrmann, David Hockney, Leo Kandl, Annette Kelm …
SHEGO/HEGO/EGO - MCEVOY FAMILY COLLECTION

Paris Photo , Paris (FR)
8 Nov 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Dawoud Bey, Carina Brandes, Anne Collier, Natalie Czech, William Eggleston, Herve Guibert, Zoe Leonard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sigmar Polke, Barbara Probst, Timm Rautert, Cindy Sherman …
Interventions

Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York (US)
11 Jul 2018 – 24 Aug 2018

with John Baldessari, Mary Ellen Bartley, Marco Breuer, Jay DeFeo, Bryan Graf, Sandy Haber Fifield, Pello Irazu, Mattew Jensen, Kenneth Josephson, Kensuke Koike, Elad Lassry, Joseph Maida …
The Photographic I - Other Pictures

S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum, Gent (BE)
7 Oct 2017 – 21 Jan 2018

with Lewis Baltz, Tina Barney, Mohamed Bourouissa, Marc de Blieck, Sara Deraedt, Patrick Faigenbaum, Peter Fraser, Alair Gomes, Jitka Hanzlova, Roni Horn, Stephanie Kiwitt, Aglaia Konrad …
documenta 14 Kassel

documenta, Kassel (DE)
10 Jun 2017 – 13 Sep 2017

with Algirdas Seskus, Abounaddara, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Michel Auder, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Sammy Baloji, Rebecca Belmore, WANG Bing, Ross Birrell, Pavel Braila, Geta Bratescu, Nikhil Chopra …
LA BIENNALE DE MONTRÉAL 2016

The Grand Balcony

Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal (CA)
20 Oct 2016 – 15 Jan 2017

with Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Eric Baudelaire, Michael Blum, Shannon Bool, Chris Curreri, Geoffrey Farmer, Isa Genzken, Luis Jacob, Janice Kerbel, Hassan Khan, David Lamelas, Cady Noland …
Home Improvements

curated by John Waters.

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
15 Apr 2016 – 25 May 2016

with Martin Creed
Photo-Poetics: An Anthology

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
20 Nov 2015 – 23 Mar 2016

with Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Lisa Oppenheim, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag, Sara VanDerBeek
Reconstructions

Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
21 Sep 2015 – 13 Mar 2016

with Thomas Bangsted, Erica Baum, Lucas Blalock, Shannon Bool, Sarah Charlesworth, Clegg & Guttmann , Miles Coolidge, Roe Ethridge, Matt Keegan, Erika Vogt
The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art

Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

National Gallery of Art, Washington (US)
3 May 2015 – 13 Sep 2015

with Uta Barth, Sophie Calle, Chuck Close, Binh Danh, Adam Fuss, Idris Khan, Vera Lutter, Sally Mann, Christian Marclay, Chris McCaw, Mark Ruwedel, Hiroshi Sugimoto …
Photo Poetics - An Anthology

PalaisPopulaire, Berlin (DE)
10 Jul 2015 – 30 Aug 2015

with Claudia Angelmaier, Erica Baum, Anne Collier, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Lisa Oppenheim, Erin Shirreff, Kathrin Sonntag, Sara VanDerBeek
Take One: Contemporary Photographs

Philadelphia Museum Art, Philadelphia (US)
25 Apr 2015 – 5 Aug 2015

with Robert Adams, Caleb Charland, Jan Dibbets, John Divola, Terry Evans, Robbert Flick, Lucas Foglia, David Goldblatt, Andreas Gursky, An-My Le, Chris McCaw, Judith Joy Ross …
Me and Benjamin

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Galerie Xippas, Paris (FR)
14 Nov 2014 – 10 Jan 2015

with Matthew Brandt, Phil Chang, Jessica Eaton, Peter Holzhauer, John Houck, Whitney Hubbs, Owen Kydd, Anthony Lepore, Catherine Opie, Arthur Ou, Matthew Porter, Alex Prager …
STILLS

<a href="http://www.fotofocusbiennial.org/" target="_blank">FotoFocus 2014 Cincinnati</a>

FotoFocus Cincinnati, Cincinnati (US)
26 Sep 2014 – 1 Nov 2014

with Talia Chetrit, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Paul Graham, Ryan McGinley, Matthew Porter, Barbara Probst, John Stezaker
Punctum

Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AT)
26 Jul 2014 – 21 Sep 2014

with Paul Allen, Kader Attia, Inaki Bonillas, Duncan Campbell, Marc de Blieck, Oscar De Marcos, Willie Doherty, Ines Doujak, Antje Ehmann, Seiichi Furuya, Carlo Gentile, Gauri Gill …
A Sense of Place

Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco (US)
1 Jul 2013 – 30 May 2014

with Robert Adams, Doug Aitken, Uta Barth, Edward Burtynsky, Eric William Carroll, John Chiara, Jan De Cock, Thomas Demand, José Manuel Fors, Lee Friedlander, Paul Graham, Andreas Gursky …
The way of the shovel

Art as Archaeology

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
9 Nov 2013 – 9 Mar 2014

with Phil Collins, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Cyprien Gaillard, Daniel Knorr, Joachim Koester, Susanne Kriemann, Jean-Luc Moulene, Deimantas Narkevicius, Sophie Nys, Anri Sala, Simon Starling …
Empire State. Arte a New York oggi

Palazzo Esposizioni, Roma (IT)
23 Apr 2013 – 21 Jul 2013

with Michele Abeles, Uri Aran, Antoine Catala, Keith Edmier, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Dan Graham, Renee Green, Adrian Piper
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Oakvillegalleries in Gairloch Gardens, Oakville (CA)
9 Dec 2012 – 17 Feb 2013

with Laura Letinsky, Micah Lexier, Ken Lum, Cheryl Sourkes, Erdem Tasdelen
Whitney Biennial 2012

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
1 Mar 2012 – 27 May 2012

with Art & Language , Charles Atlas, Lutz Bacher, Liz Deschenes, Nathaniel Dorsky, Kevin Jerome Everson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jerome Hiler, K8 Hardy, Mike Kelley, George Kuchar, Michael Robinson
New Photography 2011

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
27 Sep 2011 – 16 Jan 2012

with ZHANG Dali, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen
After the Gold Rush

Contemporary Photographs from the Collection

Metropolitan Museum 5th Ave, New York (US)
22 Mar 2011 – 2 Jan 2012

with Gretchen Bender, James Casebere, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Robert Gober, Katy Grannan, Hans Haacke, An-My Le, Curtis Mann, Trevor Paglen, Adrian Piper, Laurie Simmons, Wolfgang Tillmans …
The art of narration changes with time

Sprüth Magers, Berlin (DE)
8 Jun 2011 – 10 Sep 2011

with Peter Coffin, Thea Djordjadze, Rosalind Nashashibi, Margaret Salmon, Oscar Tuazon
Bedtime for Bonzo

curated by Matthew Porter

Casa MB., Los Angeles (US)
11 Dec 2010 – 29 Jan 2011

with Walead Beshty, Gil Blank, Andrew Bush, Arthur Ou, James Welling, Hannah Whitaker, Mark Wyse
The Grange Prize: Exhibition of Works by 2010 Finalists

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
8 Oct 2010 – 22 Dec 2010

with Josh Brand, Leslie Hewitt, Kristan Horton

Events

Düsseldorf Cologne Open Galleries 2024

DC Open
30 Aug 2024 – 1 Sep 2024

with Emilija Škarnulyte, Katinka Bock, Astrid Busch, Cihan Cakmak, Sophie Calle, Chargesheimer, Lars Eidinger, HG Esch, Larry Fink, Herve Guibert, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Lynn Hershman …
Miart 2024

Fiera Milano International , Milano (IT)
12 Apr 2024 – 14 Apr 2024

with Marina Abramovic, Stefano Arienti, Vanessa Beecroft, Jacopo Benassi, Jennifer Bornstein, Fatma Bucak, Haris Epaminonda, Christian Fogarolli, Regina Jose Galindo, Silvia Giambrone, Dan Graham, David Horvitz …
The ICP Photobook Fest

50 publishers and a programming and book signings.

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
12 May 2023 – 14 May 2023

with Tim Carpenter, Binh Danh, Kris Graves, Katherine Hubbard, Tommy Kha, Kim Kimball, Justine Kurland, Zoe Leonard, Henry Leutwyler, Holly Lynton, Susan Meiselas, Andrea Modica …
EMOP BERLIN — EUROPEAN MONTH OF PHOTOGRAPHY 2023

EMOP Berlin, Berlin (DE)
2 Mar 2023 – 31 Mar 2023

with Eve Arnold, Ilit Azoulay, Julia Baier, Olaf Otto Becker, Sibylle Bergemann, Eva Bertram, Thomas Billhardt, Yvon Chabrowski, Salomé Chatriot, Antoine d'Agata, Thomas Demand, Patrick Demarchelier …
Toronto Biennial of Art 2019

72 DAYS OF FREE ART

Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto (CA)
21 Sep 2019 – 1 Dec 2019

with Maria Thereza Alves, Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, AA Bronson, Julian Charriere, Dana Claxton, Shezad Dawood, Cyprien Gaillard, Laurent Grasso, Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Luis Jacob, Kapwani Kiwanga …
The Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival 2019

CONTACT Festival, Toronto (CA)
1 May 2019 – 31 May 2019

with Arnait Video Productions, Taysir Batniji, Nadia Belerique, Chris Curreri, Peter Funch, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Mike Hoolboom, Ayana Jackson, Morris Lum, Sanaz Mazinani, Alex McLeod, Meryl McMaster …
ARCOlisboa 2018

ARCO Lisboa, Lisboa (PT)
17 May 2018 – 20 May 2018

with Vasco Araujo, Andre Cepeda, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Monica de Miranda, John Divola, Antonio Julio Duarte, Alicia Framis, Jitka Hanzlova, Joao Maria Gusmao og Pedro Paiva, Veronika Kellndorfer, Paulo Nozolino, Aitor Ortiz …
Images Festival 2018

Festival Images, Toronto (CA)
12 Apr 2018 – 20 Apr 2018

with Kenneth Anger, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Trisha Baga, Filipa Cesar, Peter Greenaway, Ken Jacobs, Hiwa K, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Steve Reinke, Ben Rivers, Ben Russell, P. Staff …
Art Basel Miami Beach 2017

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (US)
7 Dec 2017 – 10 Dec 2017

with Marina Abramovic, Darren Almond, Claudia Andujar, John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Dawoud Bey, Matti Braun, AA Bronson, James Casebere, Talia Chetrit, Louisa Clement, Sara Cwynar …
documenta 14 Kassel

documenta, Kassel (DE)
10 Jun 2017 – 13 Sep 2017

with Algirdas Seskus, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Michel Auder, Sammy Baloji, Ross Birrell, Geta Bratescu, Nikhil Chopra, Hans Eijkelboom, Theo Eshetu, Peter Friedl, Regina Jose Galindo, Daniel Garcia Andujar …
documenta 14 Athens

Athens 8 Apr - 16 July / Kassel 10 June - 17 Sept

documenta, Athens (GR)
8 Apr 2017 – 16 Jul 2017

with Algirdas Seskus, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Michel Auder, Sammy Baloji, Hans Eijkelboom, Theo Eshetu, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Amar Kanwar, Amar Kanwar, Bouchra Khalili, Naeem Mohaiemen, Rosalind Nashashibi …
LA BIENNALE DE MONTRÉAL 2016

The Grand Balcony

La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal (CA)
19 Oct 2016 – 15 Jan 2017

with Haig Aivazian, Knut Asdam, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Eric Baudelaire, Thomas Bayrle, Michael Blum, Shannon Bool, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Chris Curreri, Em'Kal Eyongakpa, Geoffrey Farmer, Isa Genzken …
Photo Benefit Auction

Baxter St / CCNY, New York (US)

with Fryd Frydendahl, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Justine Kurland, Louise Lawler, Sze Tsung LEONG, Vik Muniz, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Hannah Whitaker
Moyra Davey

n.b.k., Berlin (DE)