Jeremy Davison

Life is nourished and shaped by personal symbolism, individual and collective stories of experience, belief, ritual, mythology, social fears, and desires. Drawing from this eclectic set of references, I create relational, poetic, and critically thought-out forms combining high and low art, using criticality and humour to explore parallel times and spaces.

My work focuses on creating space for speculative and fictitious queer bodies, survivance, and a sense of place while raising questions of belonging, conflict, and anxiety.

I combine overlooked, undervalued, and discarded objects with images and materials in an attempt to emphasize the "re-seeing" of certain histories that have been forgotten or ignored.

My oeuvre is a hybrid visual language that oscillates between gestural expression and strategy of chance. My process reflects an accumulation of life's associations, intuiting facets of intimacy, control, and the freedom of letting go of total control.

2021
Bachelor of Fine Art [honours w/ distinction]
Major: Painting & Drawing / Minor: Sculpture.
Concordia University, Montréal QC, Canada.


2024
Master of Fine Art
Painting / Sculpture
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (NSCAD University), Halifax NS, Canada.

2003- Khyber Centre For The Arts, Halifax, NS.
sSelf-titled solo exhibition.

2005- Café-Bar Zénob, Trois-Rivières, QC.
Self-titled solo exhibition.

2010- Galerie Steve St-Pierre, Sherbrooke, QC.
"Corpo-Realité" – group exhibition.

2011- Art Focus, Sherbrooke, QC.
"Vernaculart" – group exhibition.

2012- Studio Backstage, Montréal, QC.
Self-titled solo exhibition.

2013- le Tapageur, Sherbrooke, QC.
Self-titled solo exhibition.

2015 – le Tapageur, Sherbrooke, QC.
Self-titled solo exhibition.
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2018 – VAV Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
"Soft Stimuli" – group exhibition

2019 – Galerie Gham & Daff, Montréal, QC
"Thresholds–V " – group show
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2020 – Eastern Bloc, Montréal, QC.
"Concordia - Drawing 399 group exhibition".

2022 – Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax NS. "Strata" – MFA group exhibition.
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2023 – Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax NS. "A Fumble Towards Home" – Lands and Parks group exhibition

2023 – Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax NS. "Terra/Corpus" – group exhibition, curated by Luke Pardy.
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2023 – Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax NS. "Did You Read My Diary?" – NSCAD MFA 2023/24 group exhibition.
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2024 – Anna Leonowens Gallery, ...