Kenturah Davis
b. 1980, United States
Kenturah Davis was born in 1980 in Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA from Occidental College in Los Angeles and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut. She has had several notable solo exhibitions in recent years including ‘Dark Illumination’, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles, California (2023); ‘Apropos of Air’, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2021); ‘(A)Float, (A)Fall, (A)Dance, (A)Death’, Jeffery Deitch Gallery, New York, New York (2021); ‘Everything that Cannot Be Known’, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia (2020); and ‘Blur in the Interest of Precision’, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2019).
Her work is represented in numerous collections including the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Rubell Family Collection; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.; Studio Museum, New York, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.