Damon Davis

I am a post-disciplinary artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. In a practice that is part therapy, part social commentary, my work spans across a spectrum of creative mediums to tell stories exploring how identity is informed by power and mythology. I seek to empower and give voice to the powerless and combat systems of oppression, focusing not only on pain but also the joy of the Black experience. In having a conversation with myself, my intention is that my work provides insight for people to see themselves, foster growth, and expand perspectives.

In addition to more traditional visual arts media, I do not limit myself to any one discipline. My practice heavily involves music and film. I am creative director for the music collective label FarFetched, as well as a music producer and rapper of my own. My film work includes the critically acclaimed documentary "Whose Streets?" which chronicled the Ferguson uprising of 2014 and for which Filmmaker Magazine selected myself and co-director Sabaah Folayan as part of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film 2016”.

2020 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Low Residency MFA in Film
2011 St. Louis Regional Arts Commission, Community Arts Training
2007 St. Louis University BA Communication Tech

Solo Exhibitions
2021 All Hands On Deck, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2021 Darker Gods at The Lake of Dreams, Betti Ono Gallery, Oakland, CA
2021 Filling In The Cracks, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
2020 Damon Davis, The Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IA
2019 Sad Panther, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2019 Negrophilia, Gallery 210, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2018 Darker Gods in The Garden of Low Hanging Heavens, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
2018 Darker Gods in The Garden of Low Hanging Heavens, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
2016 Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2016 All Hands On Deck, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Art Along the Rivers: A Bicentennial Celebration, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
2021 Synesthesia, Wönzimer, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Stranger, Art Center at Governors Island, New York, NY
2021 New Ideal, RULE Gallery, Denver, CO
2020 Art is Revolution, Verizon Media & HuffPost (Digital)
2020 Abstractions of Black Citizenship: Sensing the Quiet in African American Art from St. Louis, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, Seattle, WA (Digital)
2020 Pro...