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Ian Davis

 

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS


2014Rituals: New Paintings, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2012Jewel Sermons: New Paintings, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2010Ian Davis: Faith in the Future, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2009Strange Geometry, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2007Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2006The Great Divide, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles
2000Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
1998Eight Million Stories, New School for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona



GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

201350 Gifts for 50 Years, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
2012Oppenheimer@20, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Corporations Are People Too, Winkleman Gallery, New York
2011Streams of Consciousness: The Histories, Mythologies, and Ecologies of Water,
Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas
2009I Thought Our Worlds Were the Same, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2008The Freedom Centre: 'This Show Will Change Your Life!,' Hales Gallery, London
Utopia/Dystopia, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Maritime: Ships, Pirates and Disasters, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut,
Storrs, Connecticut
2007Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Sheldon Survey: An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
200625 BOLD MOVES, House of Campari, Los Angeles
Reality Effect, Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, California
2005Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles
2004Miscegenation, The Chocolate Factory, Phoenix, Arizona
Merry/Peace, Sideshow, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Born in the U.S.A., Galerie Art One, Zurich, Switzerland
2003GRA Gallery, New York
Fugitive Art Space, Nashville, Tennessee
2002GRA Gallery, New York
2001Above Ground, Dam, Stuhltrager, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1999Horror, 381g, San Francisco
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Three Painters, 381g, San Francisco
1998Whole Gallery, San Francisco
1997Four, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
1996Artworks Gallery, San Francisco
1995Transitions, Arizona State University West Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona
1994Painting and Sculpture, Step Gallery 9999, Tempe, Arizona
Joe Robbins, Ian Davis, Matthew Kruse, Step Gallery 709, Tempe, Arizona



PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
The Saatchi Gallery, London
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Wellington Management Company, Boston

Fidelity Investments, Boston

Harvard Busines School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Creyts, Maria. "Concerns of Men: A Review of Ian Davis: Faith in the Future," Review, May 20, 2010.
Packham, Chris. “The Kemper at the Crossroads Finds Hidden Depths in Ian Davis’s Paintings,”
The Pitch, March 25, 2010
Thorson, Alice. “Ian Davis Paints a Grim, Ambiguous Present in ‘Faith in the Future,'" The Kansas City
Star
, March 19, 2010
Sudarsky, Noah Marcel. “All The Art That’s Fit to Drink,” Artscape, June/August 2009
“The Approval Matrix,” New York Magazine, March 23, 2009
Catlin, Roger.  “Pirates, Wrecks and Storm-Tossed Seas,” The Hartford Courant, October 30, 2008
Cochran, Samuel.  “Ian Davis,” Elle Decor, October 2008
“Art Miami,” New York Post, September 18, 2008
Larkin, Daniel. “On Climate,” ArtCal, August 26, 2008
Krainak, Michael J. “Sheldon Survey: An Invitational,” www.ereview.org, February 2008
Kathman, Ryan. “Sheldon Survey,” Omaha City Weekly, November 21–27, 2007
Amy, Michael. “Ian Davis at Leslie Tonkonow,” Art in America, October, 2007
Smith, Roberta. "Art in Review: Ian Davis- Paintings," The New York Times, March 2, 2007
Hudson, Suzanne. "Ian Davis," Artforum, May 2007
Baker, R.C. "Best in Show: Ian Davis," The Village Voice, February 14–20, 2007
"Ian Davis," Flavorpill, February 13–19, 2007, Issue #349
"The Disappearance of the Spiritual Thinker," Tricycle, Spring 2007