Joe Davidson

Joe Davidson

Works

Biography

EDUCATION

1995  MFA Sculpture  San Francisco Art Institute.  San Francisco, CA

1992  BFA Sculpture  University of Massachusetts.  Amherst, MA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015  White Dust  Barbara Davis Gallery.  Houston, TX

2013  Elements and Waves  Garboushian Gallery.  Curated by Homeira Goldstein.  Los Angeles, CA

2011   Barbara Davis Gallery  Houston, TX

Beauty Salon  site specific installation as part of Convergence of Souls exhibition, Sponsored by the City of West Hollywood and Walgreens Corporation. West Hollywood, CA

Daf Na Gallery  Naples, Italy

2010  Arte 1307 Associazione Culturale  Cynthia Penna, curator.  Naples, Italy

2009  Jill Thayer Fine Art  Bakersfield, CA

Gallery 825  Los Angeles Art Association.  Los Angeles, CA

landscape  Phantom Galleries LA.  Long Beach, CA

2008  Lawrence Asher Gallery  Los Angeles, CA

2005  Tatar Gallery  Toronto, Canada

Compulsive Repetition: (Re)Reading the Object in Space  18th St Art Center. Santa Monica, CA.  Curated by Alma Ruiz, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

scopeNY  Represented with Tatar Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2004  Haus Gallery  Pasadena, CA

2002  The Justice Ball  Benefit for Bet Tzedek Legal Services.  Park Plaza.  Los Angeles, CA

2001  Off the Floor  Studio Z.  San Francisco, CA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2023  Verve  Scape Gallery.  Corona del Mar CA

kunsthalle b – Mary Little and Joe Davidson  Bulthaup. Los Angeles CA

2022  Too Much Fun  bG Gallery. Curated by Kate Stern. Santa Monica CA

Currents  FP Contemporary.  Los Angeles CA

The Deeper the Blue  Imago Galleries.  Palm Desert CA

Black and White  Casoria Contemporary Art Museum.  Naples, Italy

Crossing Point  Durden and Ray.  Los Angeles CA

Tieze  Durden and Ray.  Los Angeles CA

2021  The Sun is the Same  Collaboration between Assembledge+ and GrossArt.  Studio City CA

Coming into Focus  Loiter Galleries.  Long Beach CA

2020  In Color  Quotidian. Los Angeles CA

Xmas ’20  Galleri Christoffer Egelund.  Copenhagen, Denmark

We Are Here / Here We Are  Durden and Ray.  Los Angeles CA

How long do you mean to be  Laundromat Art Space. Miami FL

2019  small things, Big Ideas  Barbara Davis Gallery.  Houston TX

Figura: Micro Macro  Abbaye de Neimenster, Luxembourg

Collapse  Quotidian.  Curated by jill moniz.  Los Angeles, CA

Disclosure  Durden and Ray. Los Angeles, CA

2018  Extant  Quotidian.  Curated by jill moniz.  Los Angeles, CA

Dragnet 825  Durden and Ray.  Los Angeles, CA

Odd Convergences: Steps/Missteps  Korean Cultural Center, LA CA

Los Angeles is, Once Again  Temple University Gallery, Rome, Italy

2017  Diverted Destruction 10  The Loft at Liz’.  Los Angeles, CA

2016  Safe at Home  Bedford Gallery.  Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts. Walnut Creek, CA

Obfuscate  Curated by Jenny Hagar and Steven Wolkoff.  Durden and Ray. Los Angeles

2014  Liquid Gold  Curated by Eric Johnson. PØST. Los Angeles

Diverted Destruction 7  Curated by Jill Moniz.  The Loft at Liz’.  Los Angeles, CA

Summer Solstice  Fresh Paint Gallery.  Culver City, CA

Across the Difference  Los Angeles CA.  Organized by Khalifa Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2013  Pieces and Parts  Fullerton College Art Gallery.  Fullerton CA

2012  Material Manifestation  Curated by Hoojung Lee.  L2kontemporary.  Los Angeles, CA

Landscape and Architecture  Curated by Carl Berg. Irvine Fine Arts Center. Irvine, CA

2011  Mile Marker: Barbara Davis Gallery – Celebrating Three Decades of Contemporary Art   Barbara Davis Gallery.  Houston, TX

Joe Davidson×Donald Lipski×Mie Olise  Barbara Davis Gallery.  Houston. TX

Dream Skipper  Barbara Davis Gallery.  Houston, TX.

Plenitude  Barbara Davis Gallery.  Houston, TX

Los Angeles Art Show  Art project space.  Represented with George Billis Gallery

Plenitude  Barbara Davis Gallery.  Houston, TX

Los Angeles Art Show  Art project space.  Represented with George Billis Gallery.

2010  Even Better than the Real Thing  Curated by Jennifer Frias.  Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art.  Chaffey College. Rancho Cucamonga, CA

On the Trail of Luca Giordano  Curated by Marco di Mauro.  Villa Bruno, S. Giorgio a Cremano, Naples, Italy

On Paper  George Billis Gallery.  Los Angeles, CA

Layer Cake  Curated by Jeff Rau.  Grand Central Art Center.  Santa Ana, CA

Step 09 Art Fair  Represented by Art 1307.  Milan, Italy

Repurpose, Reuse, Recycle  City of Brea Art Gallery.  Brea, CA

Salon No. 4, Works 092-140  Marine.  Marina del Rey, CA

Origins + Intersections  Brand Library Art Galleries.  Brand Library.  Glendale, CA.

Solstice/Equinox  Look Gallery.  Los Angeles, CA

2009  C.O.L.A. 2009  Department of Cultural Affairs.  Barnsdall Art Center. Los Angeles, CA

OZ: New Offerings from Angel City  Regional Museum of Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico

dreamSCAPE  Look Gallery.  Los Angeles, CA

From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California  Carl Berg Projects. Los Angeles, CA

Upcycling: Recuperating Past Lives  Architecture + Design Museum.  Curated by Tatar Gallery.  Los Angeles, CA

2008  Drawing Los Angeles  Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock.  Los Angeles, CA

Hokum  Curated by Lauri Firstenberg, LA><ART.  Gallery 825.  Los Angeles, CA

Venice Art Walk  Supporting the Venice Family Clinic.  Venice, CA

Penumbra  Curated by James Panozzo, Lawrence Asher Gallery. Gallery 825. Los Angeles, CA.

2007  Haus Guests  Haus Gallery at the Brewery Project.  Los Angeles, CA

2006  From America  Museum of Contemporary Art.  Minsk, Belarus

The Great Indoors  sideSPACE Gallery.  Pasadena, CA

Spaces in Between  Tatar Gallery.  Toronto, Canada.

2005  Reconception  Tatar Gallery.  Toronto, Canada

2004  scopeMiami  Represented with Tatar Gallery, Toronto, Canada

FADA Art Exhibition  Represented with Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Art Chicago  Represented with Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Milton Hershey School Art Museum  Hershey, PA

Brevard Museum of Art and Science  Melbourne, FL

McColl Center for Visual Art  Charlotte, NC.

2003  Icons  Transport Gallery.  Los Angeles, CA

Tactile  Transport Gallery.  Los Angeles, CA

The Curatorial Eye  Sonoma Museum of Visual Art.  Santa Rosa, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art  Rental Gallery.  Los Angeles, CA

Cultural Narratives  Juried Exhibition. Korean Cultural Center.  Los Angeles, CA

J Wayne Stark University Center Galleries  College Station, TX

Ellen Noel Art Museum  Odessa, TX

2001  Traywick Gallery  Berkeley, CA

2000  Annual Juried Exhibition  Berkeley Art Center.  Berkeley, CA

MinimalPop  Traywick Gallery.  Berkeley, CA

1999  Structural Elements  Transamerica Pyramid.  San Francisco, CA

Playpen  Traywick Gallery.  Berkeley, CA

Hover  118TH Annual Exhibition.  San Francisco Art Institute.  San Francisco, CA.  “Washroom” project.

Needle Art  Bedford Gallery.  Dean Lesher Center for the Arts.  Walnut Creek, CA

1998  Anti-Pesszimizmus  Nador Galleria.  Budapest, Hungary

1997  The Shoe Show  Bedford Gallery.  Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts. Walnut Creek, CA

Made in San Francisco  Show N Tell N London.  Coins Gallery.  London, England

You Are Here:  Bay Area Artists  Cesar Chavez Center Art Gallery.  San Francisco State University.  San Fransicso, CA

1996  Event  2451 Harrison Street. San Francisco, CA

Soft  Show and Tell Gallery.  San Franciso, CA

Event  2451 Harrison Street.  San Francisco, CA

Graduating MFA Exhibition  Fort Mason Center.  San Francisco Art Institute.  San Francisco, CA

One Day Show  65 Capp Street.  Curated by David Ireland.  San Francisco, CA

Donco Presents Commodities at Collision  Collision Gallery.  San Francisco, CA

Sequence  Push Gallery.  San Francisco, CA

1995  Diego Rivera Gallery  San Francisco Art Institute.  San Francisco, CA

Continuing Graduate Exhibition  Walter/McBean Gallery.  San Francisco Art Institute

1994  Open Studios Exhibition  San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Studios.  San Francisco, CA

Texts of Critics

Questione di ”plastica” di Cynthia Penna
pubblicato su Catalogo della mostra: “Scotch Tape Affair”

Scotch Tape Affair di Tiziana Tricarico
pubblicato su Testo in mostra: ‘Scotch Tape Affair’



Video

Intervista a Joe Davidson 

In questo video girato a Napoli a Villa Di Donato in occasione della Mostra ” Scotch Type Affair “, Joe Davidson spiega la sua opera.