NANCY DAVENPORT
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 Militarhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr, Dresden, Germany
2009 Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada
2008 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2005 Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
2004 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
MIT List Arts Center -Media Wall, Cambridge, Mass.
2002 Photo & Contemporary, Turin, Italy
2001 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2000 The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1999 Corchoran Gallery, NJCU
1998 Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
OR Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997 La Centrale, Montréal, Canada
1996 Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York
1995 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
1994 Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
1992 YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (*catalogue)
2010 Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), Instituto Svizzero Roma
2009 FEEDFORWARD-The Angel of History, LABoral, Gijón, Spain
Les Visages de L'Industrie, Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Switzerland
WORK NOW, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Workers Leaving the Factory, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Custom Car Commandos, Art in General, New York, NY *
Paradox Now!, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
2008 Liverpool Biennial International 08, Liverpool, UK *
Revolution I Love You, Trafo Gallery, Budapest traveling to IPS Birmingham, UK
ReConstitutions, DHC/Art Fondation pour l'art Contemporain, Montréal *
Not Quite How I Remember It, The Power Plant, Toronto *
2007 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey *
Stutter and Twitch, CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, Annanedale-on-Hudson, New York
2006 The Message is the Medium, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, UK
Workers, JFK Performing Arts Center, Washington DC
Workers, Frognerparken, Oslo, Norway (Hydro Centennial) *
The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Photography Reborn, Ramapo Col New Jersey, NJ *
The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Republican Like Me, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Strangers :The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,
International Center of Photography, New York, NY *
Urban Dramas, de Singel International Kunstcentrum, Antwerp *
2002 Alter Ego, Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2002 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo: Metropolitan Iconographies, Sao Paulo, Brazil *
travels to PROA Fundacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001 Lifelike, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
2000 It's a Cruel World, White Columns, New York
1998 Picture/Image/World, Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey
1997 Black and White, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York
1996 Making Pictures - Women and Photography, 1975 - Now,
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York,
travels to Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997
1995 Selections from 1993 - 1995, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Desiring Authors, Enveloping Myths, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Art History and Its Discontents, Hobart Smith College Gallery, Geneva
Revealing Desire, Cristinerose Gallery, New York
1994 4 Person show, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto Canada
More than Real, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dreaming of You, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Power, Pleasure, Pain: Contemporary Women Artists and the Female Body,
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York (3 person show with Melissa Gwyn Miller and Hilla Lulu Lin)
1993 All the World's a Stage, Marsh Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Smash Mega Hits, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992 The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Gallery, New York
Between the Sheets, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
Nature Lover, Windows on White Street, 51 White Street, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Holzl, Ingrid, "Blast-Off Photography: Nancy Davenport and Expanded Photography" in History of Photography, Volume 36, pp 1-133, Routledge, UK
2010 BLIND SPOT Magazine, Issue 42, Guest Editor: Liz Deschenes
Beckman, Karen, "CRASH: Cinema and the Politics of Speed and Stasis", Duke University Press, Durham and London
Coggins, David, "In the Studio: Nancy Davenport", Art in America, May
2009 Rosenberg, Karen, "Custom Car Commando", New York Times, Art Review, February 27
Workers Leaving the Factory", Detroit Metro Times, May 15
X.Tresaco, "Best New York Art 2009", Theredoom Publishing
2008 Carlson, Benjamin, "Not Quite How I Remember It", Frieze, October
Copeland, Colette, "Visible Disillusionment", Afterimage, 36/3
Nunez, Monica, "Nancy Davenport", Liverpool Biennial catalogue Dorment, Richard, "Liverpool Biennial: Made Up", Telegraph UK Sept 22
Beckman/Ma, "Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography", Duke University Press, pp. 110-123
Reckitt, Helena, "Not Quite How I Remember It", The Power Plant
2008
Zeppetelli, John, "ReConstitutions/ReEnactments", DHC/Art, 2008
Mavrikakis, Nicolas, "Recyclages et déconstructions", VOIR, 28 février
Bélisle, Jean-François, "ReConstitutions", CV79, Éte/Summer 2008
Lévy, Bernard, "Voir, Re-Voir", Vie des Arts, no.210, avril 2008
Cloutier, Mario, "Re-Constitutions chez DHC", La Presse, 2 mai 2008
Redfern, Christine, "Viewing the past through eyes of a lens", The Gazette, March 1, 2008
2007 Goto, Shigeo, "11 Remarkable Photographers in NYC", Japanese Esquire, February
"Nancy Davenport", Critics Magazine, Issue No.1
2006 Sundell, Margaret, "Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives inPhotography", Phaidon Press, pp. 74-75
Pollack, Barbara, "On View", Photograph, September/October 2006
Interview, "Lesson Plans: Discussion between Nancy Davenport & Barbara Pollack", Atlantica 41-42, pp 4-21
Griffin, Jonathan, "Campus," Frieze, February
Herbert, Martin, "Campus", Art Monthly, November
Smith, Adrian, "Spirit of '68 Alive in University Perspectives", The Times Higher, November 14
2005 Baker, George, "Photography's Expanded Field", OCTOBER, issue 114, pp120-140 and back cover
Lipkin, Jonathan, "Photography Reborn: Image Making in the Digital Era",
Harry N. Abrahms Inc, pp101-102
Haus, Mary, "Struck by Lightning," Artnews, February
2004 Zeaman, John, "What you See is Not Necessarily What you Get," The Record, November 28
Pollack, Barbara, Time Out New York, Art Listings: 'Campus',
March 18 - 25,. p.72
Ritchin, Fred, "Strangers: The First ICP Triennial", Aperture, Spring, pp. 4-6.
2003 Pollack, Barbara, "Everyone Has an Ennial; Now It's Photography's Turn",The New York Times, September 7.
Gambari, Olga, "In Mostra: Nancy Davenport/ Photo&Contemporary, Torino,"
Flash Art, December-January 2003, page 125. Italian Edition.
2002 Sundell, Margaret, Time Out New York, Art Listings: 'PC Revolution', December 5 - 12, p.68
Sundell, Margaret, "A Conversation with Nancy Davenport" Documents,Issue 22, Fall 2002
2002 Graham-Dixon, Andrew, "Art: After the Fall" Vogue (British Edition), September, p. 167 - 172.
Concert' by Nancy Davenport, "Failure" issue of Cabinet, Summer,p. 122.
Groothuis, Marjan, "Metropolitan icons at PROA" Buenos Aires Herald, July 14, p.11
Rohter, Larry, "A Tilt Toward the Third World at the Sao Paul Biennial", The New York Times, May 27, 2002
Artist Questionnaire Nancy Davenport, October 100, Spring, pp. 64 - 67.
Baker, George, "Openings: Nancy Davenport", Artforum, February.
Volk, Gregory, "Nancy Davenport at Nicole Klagsbrun", Art in America, January
2001 Yoshimoto, Midori, "Too Perfect a Timing: Collages of Terrorist Images", Geijustu Shincho, December 2001
Tomii, Reiko, "From New York", The Shin bijutsu shinbun, November 2001.
Thomas, Kelly Devine, "Aftershocks" ArtNews, November 2001
Pollack, Barbara, "New York Reviews", ArtNews, November 2001
Lerner, Adam, "Moving Pictures", Artforum, November 2001
Cypriano, Fabio, "Terrorismo sera tema na sala de NY na Bienal de SP",Folha de.Paulo, September 8, 2001
Stankus, Kristy, "Art And Life", Culture Shock, September 28, 2001
Vince Aletti, "Photo Realism," Village Voice, September 25, 2001, pg. 74
Roberta Smith, "In New York's Galleries, a New Context Seems to Remake the Art", The New York Times, September 19th, 2001
Ken Johnson, "Galleries; Chelsea", The New York Times, September 21
1999 Kerri Embry, Andreas Kahre, "Accident-Prone, Nancy Davenport", Front, May - June
1998 P. Elaine Sharp, "Raw Sublime", York University Press, Fall
George Baker, "Marvelous Catastrophes", catalog essay, Mercer Union
1997 Jennifer Gonzalez, "Beauty will be Compulsive", catalog essay, La Centrale, October
Tessera, "Feminism and Self-Help", photo spread, V.23, Winter
Gregory Volk, World Art, No.13, Summer
Dominique Nahas, Review Magazine, November
1995 Tessera, "Writing Nations", cover & feature, V.18, Summer
Shawn Hill, "At Arm's Length", Bay Windows, April 13
1994 Deborah Bright, "Photography on the Front Lines", Exposure, V.29
Sue Canning, The New Art Examiner, Summer
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Art and Difference in Public Space", Harvard Gazette, April 8
Juli Carson, "Lying to tell the truth, telling the truth to lie", catalog essay, Gracie Mansion Gallery, February
Elizabeth Mansfield, "Power, Pleasure, Pain: Contemporary Women
Artists and the Female Body", catalog essay, Harvard University Art Museums, March
Kim Levin, The Village Voice, March 29
1993 Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, August 1
Hamish Buchanan, "Elegant Explosion", Xtra Magazine, July 23
Oliver Girling, "Mad, Bad & Dangerous", Eye Magazine, July 29
1992 Kim Levin, "Voice Choice", The Village Voice, October 20
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, May 15
Elizabeth Hess, "Dirty Laundry", The Village Voice, May 12
Kim Levin, The Village Voice, May 12
AWARDS
2009 Abigail Cohen Rome Prize
2008 DHC/Art Grant, DHC/Art, Montréal
2007 Andy Warhol Foundation Inaugural Visual Arts Writing Grant
2003 Anonymous was a Woman Foundation Award
1999 Canada Council Visual Arts Grant
1995 Canada Council Visual Arts Grant
1994 Canada Council Short Term Grant
1993 Canada Council Short Term Grant
