ABOUT

Tim Davis is an artist, essayist, and songwriter based in Tivoli, NY.

He was born in Malawi in 1969, attended Bard College as an undergraduate, and Yale for an MFA in 2001, and has taught photography at Bard College since 2004.

He has published many books of photographs, starting with Lots, a monograph from Coromandel Design, Paris, in 2002. Nazraeli Press published his Permanent Collection in 2005. Aperture published My Life in Politics in 2006, and I’m Looking Through You in 2021. The New Antiquity, the result of his year in Rome as winner of a Rome Prize, was published by Damiani Editore in 2009. Many publications have come from commissioned projects, such as Il Technologiro dell’ Ornitorinco, from Linea di Confine, Italy, in 2010,  Quinto Quarto, Punctum Press. 2011, which was staged as a large exhibition at the MACRO Museum in Rome.

Davis had a large retrospective of non-photography based projects at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in 2019 called When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas), which resulted in a catalog. Recently, The Fondazione di Sardegna commissioned him to make a work in Sardinia, which resulted in a book at show called Hallucinations. Normaltown, a project made in the state of Georgia, involving a book, and recorded music is forthcoming from Fall Line Press in 2024, as is Upstate Event Horizon, his decade-long project in Upstate New York.

His photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, the High, Hirshhorn, Milwaukee Museums, the Walker Art Center, among many others.