Moyra Davey (born 1958) is an artist based in New York City. Davey works across photography, video, and writing. Early life Moyra Davey was born in 1958 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She grew up in Montreal, where she studied photography and received a BFA from Concordia University in 1982. She then achieved an MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1988. In 1989, she attended The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. Career Since the late 1970s, Davey has built a body of work composed of photographs, writings, and video. She was previously a faculty member at the Bard College International Center of Photography Program. Davey is represented by greengrassi, London and Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin/New York. Solo exhibitions 1985 – Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario 1994 – Moyra Davey, Peter Doig, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York; American Fine Arts, Co., New York 2006 – Monologues (with Julia Scher), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio 2008 – Long Life Cool White, The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2009 – My Necropolis, Arch II Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg 2010 – Speaker Receiver, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2013 – Ornament and Reproach, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver 2013 – Hangmen of England, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2014 – Burn the Diaries, Mumok, Vienna; Camden Arts Centre, London 2017 – Empties, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne 2017 – Portrait / Landscape, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2017 – Hell Notes, Portikus, Frankfurt 2018 – Hell Notes, , Bielefeld 2018 – "1943", Galerie Buchholz, New York 2018 – Bring My Garters/Do Nothing, experimenter, Kolkata 2019 – Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto 2019 – Les Goddesses, Art Institute of Chicago 2019 – i confess, greengrassi, London 2020 – Moyra Davey Peter Hujar, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin (with Peter Hujar) 2020 – The Faithful, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 2020 – Lanak/Obras/Works, Artium Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2022 – Film series, Museum of Modern Art, New York Awards 2004 – Anonymous Was A Woman Award 2010 – The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award 2018 – Scotiabank Photography Award 2020 – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 2022 – Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts Collections Davey's work is held in the following permanent collections: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Museum of Modern Art, New York Tate, London Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York