The Spotlight exhibition series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork accompanied by a commissioned piece of writing. It is the hope of this series to create focused and thoughtful dialogues between the visual arts and critics, poets, scholars, etc. In this iteration, the Spotlight features Kenturah Davis’s planar vessel XVII, 2023, with a text by writer and critic Zoë Hopkins.
Kenturah Davis (b. 1984, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist living and working between Los Angeles and Accra, Ghana. Davis earned a BA from Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA and an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Dark Illumination, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles, CA (2023); apropos of air, (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY (2021); Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Everything that Cannot Be Known, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2020); Blur in the Interest of Precision, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, CA (2019); among others.
Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2023, forthcoming); Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2023); From Near and Far, Stephen Friedman, London, UK (2022); Black American Portraits, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Lines of Thought: Kenturah Davis, Mary Kelly and Agnes Martin, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK (2020); Language Games, Fullerton College, Fullerton, CA (2020); and Punch, curated by Nina Chanel Abney, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2019); among others.
Davis’s work is in the collections of the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker ArtSpace, NY, NY; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Studio Museum, New York, NY; among others. Davis is the recipient of the Headlands Residency, Sausalito, CA (2020); the NXTHHVN Artist Fellowship, New Haven, CT (2019); and DAMLI Fellowship, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (2018); among others.
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