Kenturah Davis

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Kenturah Davis (born 1980) [1] is a contemporary artist working between Los Angeles, New Haven and Accra, Ghana. [2] [3] [4]

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Education

Davis earned her BA from Occidental College and a MFA from Yale University School of Art. [5] [6]

Career and critical reception

Davis' work explores the relationship between identity, language, and figurative mark-making. Davis works in a range of media from drawing to painting to sculpture to performance. [7] Her work is in the collection of the Walker Art Center. [1]

In 2020, Davis collaborated with the fashion label: Osei Duro. [8] Davis was commissioned by Los Angeles Metro to create large-scale work that will be permanently installed in a site-specific location on the new K Line (Crenshaw/LAX) rail line. [5] [9]

In 2021, the Pérez Art Museum Miami acquired their work Black As the Most Exquisite Color (2019) as part of this institution's new acquisitions initiative. [10] Davis's work was welcomed into PAMM's collection alongside artworks from Bisa Butler, Tania Bruguera, and Coco Fusco, among others. [11]

In 2022, Ava DuVernay's portrait, by Davis, was revealed by the National Portrait Gallery. [12] [13] [14]

Selected exhibits

2013 "Sonder" at Papillion in Los Angeles [6] [15]

2019 "Blur in the Interest of Precision" at the Mathew Brown in Los Angeles [15] [16]

2020 "Everything that cannot be Known" at the SCAD Museum of Art in Georgia [17] [18]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kenturah Davis". Walker Art Center. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Kenturah Davis". Los Angeles Times. 10 November 2019. Retrieved 22 June 2020– via PressReader.com.
  3. ↑ "Kenturah Davis". Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art. 10 June 2018. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  4. ↑ Burris-Wells, Mae. "Kenturah Davis delivers Plonsker Family Lecture".
  5. 1 2 "Kenturah Davis – NXTHVN" . Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  6. 1 2 "Sonder - an exhibition by Kenturah Davis". PAPILLION. 2013. Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Kenturah Davis: 'Everything That Cannot Be Known'". Visit Savannah. 2020-06-22. Archived from the original on 2020-06-25. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  8. ↑ "Kenturah Davis Collaboration - Cloth #1". Osei – Duro. Archived from the original on 25 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  9. ↑ Stromberg, Matt (10 October 2022). "LA's New Metro Line Opens With 14 Public Artworks". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "Black As the Most Exquisite Color • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  11. ↑ Valentine, Victoria L. (2021-08-21). "New Acquisitions: Pérez Art Museum Miami Adds 13 Works to Collection, Diverse Slate of Artists Includes Kenturah Davis, Bisa Butler, Karon Davis, Coco Fusco, and Sonia Gomes". Culture Type. Retrieved 2023-03-07.
  12. ↑ White, Abbey (1 November 2022). "How Kenturah Davis Crafted Ava DuVernay's Portrait for the 2022 Portrait of a Nation Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2 November 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  13. ↑ "National Portrait Gallery Announces "Portrait of a Nation: 2022 Honorees," Exhibition of Newly Commissioned Portraits, To Open Nov. 10". Smithsonian Institution. 1 November 2022. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  14. ↑ Holliday, Kayla (1 November 2022). "Anthony Fauci, Clive Davis, Ava DuVernay, and More Take Their Place in the National Portrait Gallery" . Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 1 November 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  15. 1 2 "Kenturah Davis: Blur in the Interest of Precision at Matthew Brown Los Angeles". Curate LA. 2019. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  16. ↑ "Kenturah Davis @ Matthew Brown Los Angeles". The LA Bae. 1 March 2019. Archived from the original on 23 June 2020.
  17. ↑ "SCAD Museum of Art - Everything that Cannot be Known". Art Forum. 2020. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
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