BIOGRAPHY

Kate Davis makes sculptures, videos, drawings and installations.

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KATE DAVIS

Born 1960
Lives and works in London

EDUCATION

1983 - 1986
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Postgraduate
1979 - 1982
Falmouth School of Art, B.A. Hons Fine Art, Class 1
1978 - 1979
Hertfordshire College of Art & Design, Foundation

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Kate Davis ‘lull’, FRED [London]
2007
headhearthole, 3°W Gallery at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, UK
2005
Condition, FRED [London]
Between Shadow and Truth, Embassy of Japan, London
Target (LONDON), The Economist Plaza, London Commission
Target, Harewood House, Leeds
2002
(crossing-closing), Gutleut 15, Frankfurt, Germany
Fugue loop, Berlin (Berlin/London: British Council)
Fugue, Rhodes + Mann, London
2001
As if (two), University Gallery, University of Essex
Some references to Red, University of Essex
2000
Kate Davis & Till Exit. Rhodes + Mann, London
Some references to Red, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1999
Drawings: 4 New, Burlington Street Gallery, London
As if (one), Milch, London
Some references to Red, University of Hertfordshire
1998
Alone, British School at Rome
Come, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
As If, Leipzig Kunstverein, Leipzig, Germany
Come, South Hill Park, Bracknell
Red Shift, Erfrischungsraum, Lucerne, Switzerland
Some references to Red, Oxford University, Oxford
Some references to Red, Kunstgerwerbeschule, Lucerne, Switzerland
1997
Come, Milch, London
1989
Batteries and Giants, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Binz + Kraemer, Cologne, Germany
Drawn Apart (west), Day and Faber, London
Drawn Apart (east), Contemporary Art Projects, London
The Stanley Picker Fellowship Collection Exhibition, Stanley Picker Gallery, London
Drawing Three Hundred,The drawing room, London
Mima:collection show, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Ausgezeichnet, Freiburg Kunstverien, Freiburg, Germany
2006
Drawing Breath,Wimbledon College of Art, NAS Gallery, Sydney
The Square Root of Drawing,Temple Bar, Dublin
East Window Proposal Exhibition, St-Martin-in-the Field, London
2005
Siege London
To and From, Metropole Galleries, Folkstone
me myself and I, Gutleut, Frankfurt/ Fleisch, Berlin
Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
ShowCASe, Edinburgh
Fosterart Summer Exhibition, Foster Art, London
2004
ShowCASE:Preview, South London Gallery, London
Questionmark, Wait, Error, Understood, N M A, Lithuania
Draw-drawing, Gallery 32, London
2003
Nightwood, Rhodes + Mann, London
Vice, Henry Peacock Gallery, London
Arrangement (Flowers in Art), Rhodes + Mann, London
Drawing One Hundred, The Drawing Room, London
Go To the Gallery Platform for Art Project, London Underground
Triennial Sculpture Open R W A, Bristol (invited artist)
2002
Face Off, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
Face Off, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney (British Council Invitation)
2001
Utilita di Sistema Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea, La Sapienza, Rome
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Cheltenham, First Prize winner
A different Kind of Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2000
Fusion, Rhodes + Mann, London
About Space, British Airways Waterside, London

1999
Home Abroad, Galerie ak, Frankfurt, Germany
Sweetie (Female Identity in British Video Art), BSR, Rome
Sub-Oculis Hostis Change, Contemporary Art Studio, Rome
1998 13 Artists Privy Off Site, London
Pour nous irriter, Chateaux Mouans-Sartoux, France
Group show, British School at Rome, Italy
1997
Tracer,The Tannery, London
New Work, Grodzka Gallery BWA, Lubin, Poland
Ad Hoc, London Artforms, London
Sculptors' Drawings, Newlyn art Gallery, Penzance
1995
Dystans, Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland
UK Wit & Excess, Contemporary Art Centre, Adelaide and touring
1994
Mixbild, Schipper & Krome Gallery, Cologne, Germany
360° (Models of Space), National Sculpture Centre, Poland
Blup-Bleep, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany
Ms. (cellaneous), Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
1993
Four Artists, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London
NOVEMBER TV, Schipper & Krome Gallery, at Cologne Artfair
1992
Double Vision, Vanessa Deveraux/Anderson O'Day, London
Post Morality, Kettle's Yard/Cambridge Darkroom
Upturned Ark, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
1989
Home Truths, Franz Paludetto Gallery, Castello di Rivera, Italy


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Selected Publications

2008
Headhearthole, Kate Davis, publ. Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt
2002
(crossing-closing) Kate Davis, publ. Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt
2001
As if Kate Davis, publ. University of Essex
1997
Kate Davis, publ. Milch and Henry Moore Foundation1989 Batteries & Giants - Kate Davis, publ. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Group Publications

2007
Ausgezeichnet!, Kunstverein Freiburg, Modo Verlag
Mima collection catalogue
Stanley Picker Collection catalogue
2002
Taschenatlas, publ. Gutleut Verlag, Frankfurt
Change Catalogue 1999/2000, publ. Studio d'arte, Rome
Space Cooks, publ. Space Studios, London
2000
Home Abroad, publ. Home abroad, Frankfurt
Avanguardia nel presente, publ. Domenico Scudero
Fusion, publ. Rhodes + Mann, London
1999
Sweetie, publ. Castel Vecchi Arte
1998
Fine Arts 1998/9, publ. British School at Rome
1993
NOVEMBER TV video, publ. Schipper & Krome Gallery
1989
Post-Morality, publ. Kettles Yard and Cambridge Darkroom
Home Truths, publ. Franz Paludetto
1982
New Contemporaries, publ. New Contemporaries

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2006-2007
Artist in Residence Wordsworth Trust
2002
Sydney Water Sculpture Prize, Australia
2001
Jerwood Drawing Prize (1st prize)
Individual Artists Award, London Arts
1998
SARGANT Fellowship British School at Rome
1994
Individual Artists Award, London Arts Board
1998
Young Artist of the Year, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1986-1987
The Stanley Picker Fellowship, Kingston University


COLLECTIONS

The British Museum Drawing Collection British Land
The Cranford Collection mima
The National Sculpture Centre, Poland The Stanley Picker collection
Campbelltown New City Gallery, Sydney


COMMISSIONS

Langdon Park Station, DLR Art, Mayor of London
The British Society of Medals (ongoing)
The Economist Group & Contemporary Art Society (CAS)
Shortlisted for the St Martins-In-The Field East Window Commission, London