Moyra Davey Lecture 4/5 at the ICA

Thu. 5 April, 6:30pm - 8:00pm

PennDesign Visiting Artist Lecture Series at ICA

Moyra Davey is an artist and a writer. She has had solo shows at the Harvard Art Museum (Long Life Cool White, 2008), and at the Kunsthalle, Basel (Speaker Receiver, 2010). Recent group exhibitions include: the Whitney Biennial, 2012; New Photography 2011, MoMA, NYC; After the Gold Rush (2011) and Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 (2008), both at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Atlas and Mixed Use Manhattan at the Reina Sofia, Madrid. Davey has produced three narrative videos: Les Goddesses, 2011 (61:00), My Necropolis, 2009 (32:17) and Fifty Minutes, 2006 (50:00), and many one-minute movies. She is the author of Long Life Cool White (Harvard/Yale, 2008) and The Problem of Reading (Documents Books, 2003), and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (Seven Stories Press, 2001). She was a founding member of the collaborative gallery Orchard in NYC; with Jason Simon she co-hosts the annual One Minute Film and Video Festival in Narrowsburg, NY. Davey will participate in the 2012 Sao Paolo Bienal.