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Karin Davie - Artists - MILES McENERY GALLERY

Karin Davie in her studio, Seattle, WA, 2024.

Karin Davie (b. in Toronto, Canada) received her Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. In 2006, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY, 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 Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award in 2015.

Davie’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; CHART, New York, NY; Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Canada; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY; SITE SANTA FE, Santa Fe, NM; Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY; Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden and White Cube, London, UK, among others.

The artist has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, among others.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Nerman Museum Of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; 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; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

Davie lives and works in Seattle, WA.

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