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JAY DAVIS

• Born 1975
• Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

• 1997 B.F.A. Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
• 1996 New York Studio Program, AICAD (Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design), NYC

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2010
  Absence, CTRL gallery, Houston, TX
  Works on Paper, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  New works, Motus Fort, Tokyo, JP (upcoming)
• 2008
  CTRL, Houston (with Dan Kopp)
  Bucketrider Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2007
  Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2005
  Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NYCollages, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2004
  Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2003
  Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
• 2002
  Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• 2001
  Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
• 2000
  Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2010
  Dreamzzzzzzzzz, Motus Fort, Tokyo, JP
• 2009
  ACIDROUGHLUXE, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
  A Dry Run, Charlie Horse, Brooklyn, NY
  Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner, FLAG Foundation, New York, NY (Curated by Philae Knight and Amanda Steck)
  Thorn Eye, Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan
• 2008
  Summer 2008, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Taking Candy from a Baby, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
• 2007
  Jay Davis, Michael Joo, and Michael Rakowitz for More Art: When Art Goes Back to the Community, Miami Art Space, Miami, FL
  Shipworm and Gribble, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
  Magical Mundane, BucketRider Gallery, Chicago, IL. Curated by Dan Kopp
  Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Gallery, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Jasper Sharp
• 2006
  Out of True, Chatham Building, Miami, FL. Curated by Micaela Giovannotti & Joyce Korotkin
  Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey.
  Palm Beach Collects: Works from the John Morrissey Collection, Armory Art Center, Palm Beach, FL
• 2005
  Terra Non Firma, Howard House Gallery, Seattle, WA
• 2004
  Stay Inside, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Stop and Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
• 2003
  The Pyramid Scheme, Schopf Gallery on Lake, Chicago, IL
  Prague Biennale 1, Veletrzni Palac, Prague, Czech Republic
• 2002
  Everyone Knows This is Nowhere, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
  Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York
  NYC, Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  I-Beam, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
  New York in Texas, New Gallery, Houston, Texas
  Jay Davis, Inka Essenhigh, Christian Schumann. Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, Texas
  The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
  20th Anniversary Celebration: Stefan Stux Gallery, New Gallery, Houston, Texas
• 2001
  WestWorld, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Max Henry
  Wattage & Friendship, Muller/DeChiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany. Curated by David Hunt
  Boxy, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York, NY. Organized with Carl Ostendarp
  Summer Show 2001, ShoshanaWayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  SuperNature, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX. Curated by Kerry Inman and Patrick Reynolds
  Super Imposition, Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York, NY. Curated by David Hunt
• 2000
  Landscape My Ass, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Neutopia, Audiello Fine Art, New York, NY
  Collectors’ Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
  Here and Everywhere: Ruminations on Place, Farrell/Pollack Fine Art
  (Bingo Hall), curated by Mark Keffer, Brooklyn, NY
• 1998
  Wrong Place, Right Time, Double Pleasure, New York, NY. Curated by Giovanni Garcia/Fenach

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• 2009
  Lindsay Pollock, "Glen Fuhrman's Flag Foundation Show", Bloomberg News, June 30
  "Artist Profile - Jay Davis", Phillipsartexpert.com, May 6
• 2008
  Julia Ramey, “Dan Kopp and Jay Davis - Two Brooklyn artists show off their new works”, Houston Press, August 14
  Douglas Britt, “Last chance to catch hot August shows-Dan Kopp and Jay Davis”, Houston Chronicle, August 15
  Takashi Tomita, “New York – Art, Surf, Lifestyle”, Blue, issue 11
  Rachel Adams, review, Flavorpill Chicago
• 2007
  Sharon Mizota, review, Artnews, Summer
  Aron Namenwirth, “Democrazy”, Zing Magazine, issue #21
  Review, DailyServing.com, March 31
• 2006
  Peter Higgins and Lina Roos, ed., Crossfields Issue 2: Home. Wire Design Ltd.
  Dan Bischoff, review of Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, Star Ledger, September 3
  Joao Ribas, “Emerging Collectors: A Profile of John Morrissey”, ArtInfo.com, January 17
  Joyce Korotkin, “Jay Davis”, Tema Celeste, January-February
• 2005
  Charlotte Troy ed., Home Sweet Home 102, an anthology, Thames and Hudson Ltd./ D.A.P.
• 2004
  Christopher Knight, review of Stay Inside, “A windowed sort of claustrophobia”, LA Times, July 9
  Andrea Bellini and Sonia Campagnola, “I Nuovissimi di New York”, Flash Art Italia, June 2004, pp. 83-94
  Shana Nys Dambrot, review, Flavorpill LA, issue 55
  Holly Myers, review, “A lot going on, hard to sit still”, Los Angeles Times, February 27
• 2003
  Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, “The New Abstractionists”, Art & Auction, July
  Merrily Kerr, review, Flash Art (International), March-April
  Review, The New Yorker, February 3
  Manami Fujimori, “Very New York”, BT (Bijutsu Techo), January
• 2002
  Douglas Fogle, Peter Pakesh, and Lauri Firstenberg, “Curating Painting”, Flash Art (International), Nov - Dec
  Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick, Charley, #02
  Amanda Church, “I-Beam at Cynthia Broan”, Flash Art (International), October
  Ken Johnson, review of I-Beam, The New York Times, July 12
  Mike Daniel, “Three young neo-surrealists at Angstrom”, The Dallas Morning News, May 17
  Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick, Charley, #01
  Elisabeth Franck, The Transom, The New York Observer, March 18
  Robb Young, “Artistic Defense” Dutch, January – February
  Reena Jana, review “Westworld” Artnews, March
  “Amnesty International USA fetes new media art” Tema Celeste, March – April
  “Art Hangs” Blackbook, Spring
  “Amnesty International USA at 40” NY Arts Magazine (International Edition), February
  Christopher Chambers, “Max”, January Picks, (Westworld) NY Arts Magazine
  “Off the Wall” Smock, Winter issue
• 2001
  Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, “Precarious But At Peace”, Dutch, Nov. – Dec.
  Ken Johnson, review of “Westworld”, The New York Times, Dec. 14
  Sarah Valdez, “Gallery Reviews” (Westworld), Paper, Dec. – Jan.
  Robert Curcio, review in Tema Celeste, Nov. – Dec.
  Christopher Chambers, “A New Crop of Young American Painters”, Tema Celeste, Nov. – Dec.
  Randy Gladman, review in NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 10
  Review, The New Yorker, October 8
  Gina Basha, “Art on the Verge,” review in City, October
  Mark Kostabi, review in Shout, September - October
  Martha Schwendener, review in Time Out New York, September
  Charlie Finch, “The New Season”, Artnet.com, September
  Scott Speh, review online, Hot Commodities 9, 16beaver.com
  Kelly Klaasmeyer, “The Not-So-Great Outdoors,” review of “SuperNature,” Houston Press, Aug 16-22
  Kim Levin, “ShortList”, review of “Superimposition,” The Village Voice, July 31
  Martha Schwendener, NY Critics’ Picks, review of “Superimposition,” July
  Holland Cotter, review of “Superimposition,” The New York Times, July 6
  Stephanie Cash, review in Art in America, January
  Kim Levin, Voice Choices, review of “Neutopia,” Village Voice, January 9
  Christopher Bollen, review of “Neutopia,” Time Out New York, January 4-11
• 2000
  Ken Johnson, review of “Neutopia,” The New YorkTimes, December 29
  Tim Griffin, “Working the Room”, Smock, November
  Mario Naves, review in The New York Observer, May 3
  Astra Taylor, review in Review Magazine, April 15