Born 1962, Vancouver, BC

EDUCATION
1980 - 1984
Bachelor of Fine Art
York University, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, QC
2006
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
 
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON
2005
Drink Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
 
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
2003
Tlön, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, QC
2000
Christine Davis: Pluck, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
 
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1999
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
1998
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1996
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
 
Galeria Palma Dotze, Vilafranca, Spain
1995
Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
 
Perspectives, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
 
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
1994
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
 
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
1993
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
 
CREDAC, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France. Traveling to: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
1992
Le dictionnaire des inquisiteurs, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
1991
Logos, SL Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON
1989
Unanimous Horizon, SL Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON
 
Galerie Dazibao, Montréal, QC
1988
Passion, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC
 
Cleave, Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, QC
1987
Cleave, YYZ Artists, Outlet, Toronto, ON
1986
Corpus Delectus, Pages, Toronto, ON
1985
Exquisite Positions, A Space, Toronto, ON
1984
still looking, Studio, Toronto, ON

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Projections, Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
 
La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal, QC
2006
Small Works, Olga Korper Gallery. Toronto, ON
2003
Mosaic Canada: Sign and Sound, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Japan
2002
New Photography, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000-01
Paradise Now: Creating the Genetic Revolution: Exit Art, New York. Traveling to: Tang Teaching Museum, NY (2001); Carnegie Mellon University (2002); Tulane University (2003)
2000
Odd Bodies, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON. Traveling to: Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB
1999
New Visions/New Passions, Fundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander
 
ART 30 Basel, stand Helga de Alvear
1997
Contours, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
 
ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
1995
Perspectives / Christine Davis + Jan Peacock, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
 
Press/Enter: Between Seduction and Disbelief, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
 
Survivors, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON
1994
Fixing the Gaze, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, ON
 
The Body ~ Le Corps, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Traveling to: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
 
19 Marzo Frankfurt, Galeria Juana Mordo, Madrid, Spain
1993
A Discourse on the Emotions, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
 
Prospect '93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
 
Embodied Spaces, Vox Populi, Le Mois de la Photo de Montréal, QC
 
Le Bestiaire, Parachute Benefit Exhibition, Montréal, QC
 
Visual Evidence, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
 
Eros c'est la Vie, Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
1992
Beau, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
1991
Embodying Faith, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
 
Practicing Beauty, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
 
The Embodied Viewer, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB
 
Das Sibyllinische Auge (The Sibylline Eye), Kunsthalle Munich, Germany
1990
Collectif Generation, Livres d'Artistes, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
 
La Bibliothèque Imaginée de Collectif Generation, Musée de Gravelines, France
 
S.L. Simpson Gallery, 1980-1990, Toronto, ON
 
Telling Things, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
1989
Christine Davis/Michel Couturier, Dazibao Gallery, Montréal, ON
 
Sarah Charlesworth, Christine Davis, Judith Schwarz, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, ON
1988
Walls on Fire, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, ON
 
Invitational, Cold City Gallery, Toronto, ON
1986
Some Uncertain Signs, Public Access, Toronto, ON
 
Quick Draw, Gallery 76, Toronto, ON

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Baker, Lang, "What Angels Saw: On the Photography of Christine Davis", Parachute (No.64, 1991)

Balaguer, Marlene Gras. "Contra el limite: Apologia del suicido estetico", AtlAntica 14 (Fall 1996)

Brew, Kathy; Guerra, Roberto. " Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution", Mosquito Productions (2000)

Buci-Glucksmann, Christine. "La forme du régard ", Exhibition catalogue (Paris: CREDAC and Guelph: Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, 1993)

Butuin, Marnie, "Woman's Passion", Volute (1:2, Nov/Dec 1991)

Christie, Claire, "Fixing the Gaze", exhibition essay (Toronto: Olga Korper Gallery, 1994)

Christie, Claire, "Contours", exhibition essay (Toronto: Olga Korper Gallery, 1997)

Dault, Gary Michael, "Feathered dreams of wings and desire", The Globe and Mail (Saturday, Dec. 30, 2000)

Dompierre,Louise, "Pools of Reflection", Exhibition Catalogue, Press Enter: Between Seduction and Disbelief (Toronto: The Power Plant, 1995)

Feinstein, Roni. "Report from Toronto", Art in America 7 (July 1994)

Fones, Robert, "Cleave", Vanguard (17:1, Feb/Mar 1988)

Gagnon, Monika, "Beaute Convulsive", Exhibition Catalogue (Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery, 1989)

Gagnon, Monika, "Work in Progress", (Toronto: Women's Press, 1988), ill.

Gagnon, Monika, "The Body of Knowledge", C Magazine (No. 8, Winter 1986)

Genereux, Linda, "Photo Synthesis", Canadian House and Home (June/July 1990)

Glassman, Marc, "Some Uncertain Signs", Parachute (No. 45, Winter 1986-87)

Gogarty, Amy, "The Embodied Viewer", Parachute (No. 63, 1991)

Gravel, Claire, "Cleave", Le Devoir (Montreal, September 17, p. c-11, 1988)

Gurney, Janice, "Morality, the Body and Death", Art Views (14:4/15:1, March-May 1989)

Hanna, Deirdre, "Chick flicks", NOW (December 21, 2000)

Hitzeroth, Connie, "Cleave", NOW (Toronto, 7:5, October 8, 1987)

Hoffman, Justin, "Interview with Christine Davis", Artis (April, 1991)

Holubizky, Ihor, "Practicing Beauty", Exhibition Catalogue (Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1991)

Lacey, Liam, "Speaking to the body", Globe & Mail (Toronto, May 16, 1991)

Lamoureux, Johanna. " La bete à deux tetes", Parachute 73 (Winter 1994)

Lanzinger, Pia, Isabelle Graw, "Das Sibyllinsche Auge" (The Sibylline Eye), Exhibition Catalogue (Munich: Foto e.V. Munche and Barbara Gross Galerie, 1991)

Legge, Elizabeth, "Body Double", Canadian Art (Winter 1997)

Lypchuk, Donna, "Narcissism through the looking glass", Metropolis (Toronto, Nov 23, 1989)

Lypchuk, Donna, "Summer showings profile local artists", Metropolis (Toronto, Aug 10, 1989)

Marchessault, Janine. "Morality, the Body and Death", Art Views 14:4/15:1 (March/May 1989)

Marchessault, Janine. "Pluck", Artforum (October 2001)

Marks, Laura U., "Press/Enter", Artforum (September 1995)

Mays, John Bentley, "Look Up In the Sky", Globe and Mail (Toronto, Feb 14, 1986)

Mueller, Megan. "City Focus: Toronto", ARTnews (May 1996), p. 65

Murria, Alicia. "Christine Davis", Lapiz 122 (1996)

Navarro, Mariano. "Luzy y Fotografia en la Colleccion Helga de Alvear" (Fundacion Caja de Ahorros de Vitoria y Alava, 1998)

News, "The Sibylline Eye: North American Women Photographers", Flash Art (Jan/Feb 1991)

"Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution," Mosquito Productions, 2000 [Video]

Patton, Andy, "Notebook Pages", C Magazine (No. 23, Fall 1989)

Payne, Andrew, "Cleave", Parachute (No. 50 March-May 1988)

Perrot, Mereille, "Cleave", ETC. (No. 6, Hiver 1988)

Pontbriand, Chantal. "De la violence et du Language, Parachute, No. 71, 1993

Ritchie, Christina. "Perspective 95 (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1995)

Sawchuk, Kim, "A Tale of Inscription/ Fashion Statements", Canadian Journal of Social and Political Theory (11:1/2, 1987)

Schmidt, HJ and Vogt, Inge. "Prospect '93: 7 Junge kunstler auf einen streich", Wiener, May 1993

Shaw, Nancy, "The Delicate Double", Vanguard (18:2, April/May 1989)

Steinlechner, Carin, "Das Sibyllinische Auge", Munchner Merker (Munich, Jan 11, 1991)

Straw, Will, "Le dictionnaire des inquisiters", C Magazine, 37 (Spring 1993)

Taylor, Kate. "When language is an instrument of control", Globe & Mail, Toronto, Oct. 2/92

Tuer, Dot, "Exquisite Positions", Vanguard (14:8, October 1985)

Weiss, Allen. "Le dictionnaire des inquisiters", Art + Text 44 (January 1993)


ADDITIONAL PUBLICATIONS

"DRINK ME" Profiles, Descant 135: Bibliomania 2, Winter 2006, Volume 37, Number 4.

"20thC. Lexicon", ed. Christine Davis with Ken Allen & Lang Baker, PUBLIC 19/20 (Spring 2000)

"Morphos", reZoning: West Coast Line 31:34 (Spring 2000)

"Work in progress", Neuvas visiones/Nuevas pasiones (Santander: Fundacion Marcelino Botin, 1999)

"Utopias", ed. Christine Davis and Susan Lord, PUBLIC 12 (Fall 1995)

"Love", ed. Christine Davis and Janine Marchessault, PUBLIC 10 (Fall 1994)

"Sacred Technologies", ed. Christine Davis and Janine Marchessault, PUBLIC 7 (Winter 1993)

"Insert", Talking Pictures, Tessera (No. 13, Winter 1992)

"Hyphen Machine", C Magazine (No. 33, Spring 1992)

"Hyperbole", Texts (No. 6, Fall 1991)

"A Text", Writing (No. 23/24, Fall/Winter 1989)

"Cleave", Impulse: New City Fiction (14:2/3, Summer 1988)

"Immaculate Gap", Provincial Essays (Vol. 6, 1988)

Artist's Project, Border/lines (No. 6, Winter 1986/87)

"Speaking the Media - Tongue in Cheek", with Monika Gagnon, Border/lines (No. 3, 1985)


EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Campbell, Paloma & Pakasaar Helga, Christine Davis: Projections, (Vancouver:Presentation House Gallery, 2006)

Bernier, Christine. Embodied Spaces (Montréal: Vox Populi, 1993)

Buci-Glucksmann, Christine. "La forme due Regard". Pontbriand, Chantal. "De la violence et du language ou les mises en scène de Christine Davis" in Christine Davis (Paris: CREDAC & Guelph: MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, 1993) french/english

Christie, Claire. Fixing the Gaze (Toronto: Olga Korper Gallery, 1994)

Dompierre, Louise. "Pools of Reflection", Press/enter: between seduction and disbelief (Toronto: The Power Plant, 1995)

Gagnon, Monika. Beauté Convulsive (Vancouver: Artspeak Gallery, 1989)

Graw, Isabelle; Lanziger, Pia. Das Sibyllinsche Auge (Munich: Foto e.V. München & Barbara Gross Gallery, 1991)

Herzog, Michael. The Body/ Le Corps (Zurich: Editions Stemmle AG, 1989)

Holubizky, Ihor. Practicing Beauty (Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1991)

Jenkner, Ingrid. "Critical Fictions", Visual Evidence, (Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 1993)

Langford, Martha. Beau (Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1992)

Lemecha, Vera. The Embodied Viewer (Calgary: Glenbow Museum, 1991)

Navarro, Mariano. Luz y Fotografia en la Coleccion Helga de Alvear (Fundacion Caja de Ahorros de Vitoria y Alava, 1998)

Ritchie, Christina. Perspective 95 (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1995)

Rodriguez, Arturo. Neuvas visiones/Neuvas pasiones (Santandar: Fundacion Maeclino Botin, 1999)

Truco, Dominique. Eros, c'est la vie (Poitiers: Le Confort Moderne, 1993)

Weiermair, Peter. Prospect 93 (Frankfurt: Frankfurter Kunstverein & Schirn Kunsthalle, 1993)

Yang, Alice. Embodying Faith (New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991)


ARTISTS' BOOKS

Christine Davis, Projections, Presentation House Gallery, 2006

Nicole Brossard & Christine Davis, Typhon Dru, (Paris: Collectif Generation, 1990)


COMMISSIONS

Women's Law Association of Ontario, Law Society of Upper Canada, Osgoode Hall, Toronto, ON, 2000


AFFILIATIONS

2002-2007
Board of Director, Power Plant, Toronto, ON
1989-1993
Board of Directors, YYZ Artists' Outlet
1986- Present
Public Access collective, founding member, editor of PUBLIC

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, Paris

Bruce Peel Special Collection, Edmonton, AB

Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON

Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON

CIBC Development Corporation, Toronto, ON

Collection Lambert, Aix-en-Provence, France

Collection Helga de Alvear, Madrid

Department of External Affairs, Ottawa, ON

Household Financial Corporation, Toronto, ON

Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON

McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto, ON

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, QC

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON

National Library of Canada, Ottawa, ON

Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON

Sunlife, Toronto, ON

Toronto-Dominion Bank, Toronto, ON

Torys, Toronto, ON

William Allan Neilson Library, Northampton, MA USA