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 © Lynn Davis (detail)
© Lynn Davis (detail)

Rooted in the 19th century tradition of travel photography, Lynn Davis' photographs reach far beyond the concept of the "cultured traveller". The artist is not fascinated by exoticism as her predecessors were; her investigations invite the beholder foremost to undertake his or her own spiritual pilgrimage. Driven by a constant aesthetic purpose, Lynn Davis proceeds by creating series and adopts large square formats, usually in black and white. Her straightforward shots and often head-on framing may call to mind the neutrality of an inventorial kind of photography or, conversely, magnify the geometry and monumentality of landscapes and architectures. Thus the eye focuses on the sites themselves, deserted as they are, while the photographer effaces herself from the image.

Lynn Davis was born in 1944 in Minneapolis. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and collected widely and appear in major collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the L.A. County Museum, Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art or the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. The artist lives and works in New York.

Exhibitions

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
2018-19
Lynn Davis: Landmark

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

2017-18
Lynn Davis & Patti Smith: Conspiracy of Word and Image

Ceretto Art & Co, Alba, Italy

2017
Africa: Photographs by Lynn Davis, Neil L. & Angelica Zander

Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

2017
Lynn Davis. Photographs

Total Arts, Dubai, UAE

2016-17
Lynn Davis: On Ice

The Glass House, Painting Gallery, New Canaan, CT, USA

2016
Lynn Davis. Desert & Ice

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2015-16
The Warren Street Project

(20th Anniversary), Vince Mulford Antiques, Hudson, NY, USA

2012
Modern Views of Ancient Treasures

National Archaeological Museum, Venice, Italy

2011-12
Lynn Davis

Galerie Edwynn Houk, Zurich, Switzerland

2011
Lynn Davis – Water & Rocks

Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland

2011
Lynn Davis

Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

2010-11
Lynn Davis – Waterfalls

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2010
Lynn Davis: Persistence of Form. Photographs 1978 - 2010

Knoedler & Company, New York, USA

2009-10
Lynn Davis – Water & Rocks

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2008
India, Persia, China

Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, Germany

2007-08
Lynn Davis - Recent Work

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

2007
Ancient Persia/ Icebergs

PhotoEspaña, Thyssen - Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain

2006-07
Illumination. Photographs by Lynn Davis

Rubin Museum of Arts, New York, USA

2006
Lynn Davis. Ancient Persia

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

2005-06
Lynn Davis. Monument

Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK

2005
Monuments

Zone Attive, Festival della Fotografia, Rome, Italy

2005
Lynn Davis

Camera Work, Berlin, Germany

2005
Lynn Davis. Waters

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

2005
Lynn Davis. Ancient Persia

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2004-05
Icebergs

Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland

2004
Lynn Davis

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

2003-04
Lynn Davis

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2003
China

Karsten Greve Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2003
Monuments

World Monument Fund, New York, USA

2003
China

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

2002-03
China

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

2002
Monuments

Karsten Greve Gallery, Milan, Italy

2001-02
Ice

Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, France

2001
Ice

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

2000-01
Ice

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

2000
Monuments

Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

1999-00
Lynn Davis

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

1999
Africa

Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

1998-99
Photographs of the Puryear Installation

J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1998
Retrospective 1986 – 1997

Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MS, USA

1997-98
Africa

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA

1997
Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Italy

Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA

1997
1986 – 1996: Ice, Water, Middle East

Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France

1997
Water and Ice

Galleri Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden

1996-97
I Canti Durevoli. Syria

Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy

1996
Warren Street Project: An Inventory of the Historic Structures of Warren Street

Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York, USA

1995-96
Ancient Sites. Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Lebanon

Houk Friedman, New York, USA

1995
1978 – 1994

Houk Friedman, New York, USA

1995
Monuments

Kohn/Turner, Los Angeles, California, USA

1994-95
Water

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

1993-94
Burma, Cambodia, Thailand

James Danziger Gallery, New York, USA

1992
Egypt

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

1992
Egypt

Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1992
Egypt

Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne, Germany

1991-92

Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, USA

1991
Ice

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico

1990-91
Egypt

Studio La Citta 2, Verona, Italy

1989-90

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

Group exhibitions
2022
South America

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

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2018-19
Recursions & Mutations

Studio la Città at GAD, Venice, Italy

2015-16
Naples Collects

The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Naples FL, USA

2015
Perfect Likeness. Photography and Composition

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2014-15
Earth & Sky. Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

2012-13
Von Beckmann bis Warhol. Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Sammlung Bayer

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2009-10
Water

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, Canada

2008-09
Lisette Model and Her Successors

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MS, USA

2008
Remembering Dakota

Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA

2008
Echo Wanted

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2007-08
Remembering Dakota

North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA

2007
Upon an Ether Sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

2006-07
Jano - La doble cara de la fotografía

MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2005-06
Recent Landscape Photography

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2003-04
Glorious Harvest. Photographs from the Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2002-03
Regarde il neige

Centre National d’Art et du Paysage, Ile de Vassivière, France

2001-02
Visions from America

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2001
In Response to Place

The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA

2001
Building, Dwelling, Thinking

Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, MS, USA

2001
The Inward Eye, Transcendence in Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA

2000-01
Indivisible

Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, North Carolina Museum of Art, NC, USA

1998-99
Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography

Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Museum of Photographic Arts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA; International Center of Photography, New York, USA

1998
The Body in the Mirror. Photography Today

Photographic Center of Skopelos, Athens, Greece

1997-98
Charles Cowles Photographic Collection

Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

1987
Women See Men

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

1987
Art Against Aids

Dia Foundation, New York, USA

1986-87
The Male Nude in Photography in the 19th & 20th Centuries

Ravenna, Italy

1985-86
Recent Acquisitions

International Center of Photography, New York, USA

1984-85
Convergence: Lynn Davis, Annie Leibowitz, Erika Lennard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Laurie Simmons

Sheller, Rubin, Winer Gallery, New York, USA

1981-82
Photography in the 60's & 70's

Institute of Contemporary Art, Brazil; Galerie Ufficio Dell’Arte, Paris, France; Texbraun Gallery, Paris, France; Robert Samuel Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

1981
New American Nudes

Creative Photography Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

1980-81
Alumni Exhibitions

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA

1979-80
Permanent Collection Exhibition

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA

1978-79
Lynn Davis / Robert Mapplethorpe

Trade Off, International Center of Photography, New York / Halstead Gallery, Birmingham, Mississippi, USA

1977-78
Fleeting Gestures: Treasures of Dance Photography

International Center for Photography, New York, USA; Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, USA; Artists Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA; Photopia, Philadelphia, USA; Marcuse Pfeiffer Gallery, New York, USA

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