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.
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Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Ceretto Art & Co, Alba, Italy
Rudenstine Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Total Arts, Dubai, UAE
The Glass House, Painting Gallery, New Canaan, CT, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
(20th Anniversary), Vince Mulford Antiques, Hudson, NY, USA
National Archaeological Museum, Venice, Italy
Galerie Edwynn Houk, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Knoedler & Company, New York, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Bernheimer Fine Old Masters, Munich, Germany
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
PhotoEspaña, Thyssen - Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
Rubin Museum of Arts, New York, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, UK
Zone Attive, Festival della Fotografia, Rome, Italy
Camera Work, Berlin, Germany
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Karsten Greve Gallery, Cologne, Germany
World Monument Fund, New York, USA
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Karsten Greve Gallery, Milan, Italy
Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, France
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MS, USA
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, USA
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Galleri Larsen, Stockholm, Sweden
Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York, USA
Houk Friedman, New York, USA
Houk Friedman, New York, USA
Kohn/Turner, Los Angeles, California, USA
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
James Danziger Gallery, New York, USA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Heidi Reckermann Photographie, Cologne, Germany
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, USA
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Studio La Citta 2, Verona, Italy
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Studio la Città at GAD, Venice, Italy
The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples, Naples FL, USA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, Canada
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MS, USA
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
MNCARS - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Centre National d’Art et du Paysage, Ile de Vassivière, France
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, MS, USA
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA
Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, North Carolina Museum of Art, NC, USA
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
Photographic Center of Skopelos, Athens, Greece
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Dia Foundation, New York, USA
Ravenna, Italy
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Sheller, Rubin, Winer Gallery, New York, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Brazil; Galerie Ufficio Dell’Arte, Paris, France; Texbraun Gallery, Paris, France; Robert Samuel Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA
Creative Photography Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA
Trade Off, International Center of Photography, New York / Halstead Gallery, Birmingham, Mississippi, USA
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