Moyra Davey

Moyra Davey is an artist based in New York, and whose work comprises the fields of photography, film, and writing. She has produced several works of film, most recently i confess (2019). She is the author of numerous publications including her latest, Index Cards (New Directions, 2020), and is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood (Seven Stories, 2001). Davey has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at institutions including the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2020); Portikus, Frankfurt/Main (2017); Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); Kunsthalle Basel (2010); and Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2008). Her work is found in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Tate Modern in London. She is a 2020 recipient of the John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and in 2004 was granted the Anonymous was a Woman Award.