Tim Davis Malawi , 1969

Tim Davis is an American visual artist and poet, based in New York City and Tivoli, New York. He is the author and subject of several books of photography, plus a book of poetry. He was awarded the Rome Prize in 2007. Davis has exhibited at internationally renowned museums and galleries including the Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Greenberg Van Doren gallery.
 
Solo exhibitions: Quinto Quarto, MACRO Museum, Rome; Transit Byzantium, Transformer Station, Cleveland; The New Antiquity, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York; many other exhibitions in New York, London, Los Angeles, Brussels, Geneva, Atlanta, Miami. Photographs in the collections of the Guggenheim, Metropolitan, Whitney, Hirshhorn, Walker, and other museums. Author of seven books of photographs, including Quinto Quarto (Punctum, 2013) and The New Antiquity (Damiani, 2009), and two collections of poetry. Discovery Award finalist, 2004 Arles Photography Festival; Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize Fellow in residence, American Academy in Rome (2007–08). Contributor to publications including Aperture, Artforum, Art on Paper, Blind Spot, Metropolis. At Bard since 2003.