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Lisa Corinne Davis (b. 1958 in Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 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 Professor of Art at Hunter College. Davis is a member of the National Academy of Design, a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow in the Fine Arts, and a 2024 fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts. Additionally in 2024, Davis was commissioned by the MTA Arts & Design Program to create several permanent mosaic murals for the 68th Street-Hunter College subway station, which is a site of particular resonance for Davis, having taught at Hunter College for over two decades.

She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Esther Massry Gallery, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY; Farmer Family Gallery, The Ohio State University at Lima, Lima, OH; Galerie Gris, Hudson, NY; Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, Bronx, NY; LongwoodGallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, among others.

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; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum

& Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; The 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; Oakland University Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI; Schomburg Center for Research in Black

Culture, New York, NY; and the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, among others.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; 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; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Sheldon Museum of Art, University

of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; U.S. Embassy, Lomé, Togo; U.S. Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon, and

elsewhere.

The artist lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson, NY.