Kenturah Davis

Kenturah Davis (born 1980 in Altadena, California)^[1][2] is an American contemporary multidisciplinary artist and designer. She works in the mediums of sculpture, drafting, printmaking, painting, and performance art. Davis has lived between the cities of Los Angeles and New Haven in the United States, and Accra, Ghana.^[3][4][5]

Kenturah Davis
Born	Accra, Ghana
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	sculptor, designer, performance art

Education

Davis earned her BA degree from Occidental College in 2002;^[6] and a MFA degree from Yale University School of Art.^[7][8]

Career

Davis' work explores the relationship between identity, language, and figurative mark-making. Davis works in a range of media from drawing to painting to sculpture to performance.^[9] Her work is in the collection of the Walker Art Center.^[2]

In 2020, Davis collaborated with the fashion label: Osei Duro.^[10] Davis was commissioned by Los Angeles Metro to create large-scale work that will be permanently installed in a site-specific location on the new K Line (Crenshaw/LAX) rail line.^[7][11]

In 2021, the Pérez Art Museum Miami acquired their work Black As the Most Exquisite Color (2019) as part of this institution's new acquisitions initiative.^[12] Davis's work was welcomed into PAMM's collection alongside artworks from Bisa Butler, Tania Bruguera, and Coco Fusco, among others.^[13]

In 2022, Ava DuVernay's portrait, by Davis, was revealed by the National Portrait Gallery.^[14][15][16]

Exhibitions

• 2013, "Sonder" at Papillion in Los Angeles^[8][17]
• 2019, "Blur in the Interest of Precision" at the Mathew Brown in Los Angeles^[17][18]
• 2020, "Everything that cannot be Known" at the SCAD Museum of Art in Georgia^[19][20]