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Biography
Lisa Corinne Davis is an American visual artist who is perhaps best known as a painter. Davis currently lives and works in Brooklyn and Hudson, New York.
Education and career
From 1976-78 Davis attended Cornell University. In 1980, she attained a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in New York City. In 1993 she attained a Masters in Fine Arts from Hunter College.
As an artist, Davis' work is an exploration of racial, social, and psychological identity, and through the development of her painting lexicon she expresses her personal experience as an African-American woman in the 21st Century, and, by extension, that of an individual in modern society.
She is currently a Professor of Painting and Combined Media at Hunter College.Lisa also has taught at Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union School of Art, and Yale University.
Select Exhibitions
- Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts (1996)
- Book Art 12: Artist's Books from the Library and Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts (2000)
- Contemporary Cartographies, Lehman College (2012)
Awards
Davis has received numerous awards, including the 2001 Artist Biennial award from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts' Visual Artist Fellowship and two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships.
Notable collections
- Willfully Whimsical, 2006, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania