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Kenturah Davis (born 1980) 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, New Haven in the United States, and Accra, Ghana.




Education


Davis earned her BA degree from Occidental College in 2002; and a MFA degree from Yale University School of Art.




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. Her work is in the collection of the Walker Art Center.
In 2020, Davis collaborated with the fashion label: Osei Duro. 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.
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. Davis's work was welcomed into PAMM's collection alongside artworks from Bisa Butler, Tania Bruguera, and Coco Fusco, among others.
In 2022, Ava DuVernay's portrait, by Davis, was revealed by the National Portrait Gallery.




Exhibitions


2013, "Sonder" at Papillion in Los Angeles
2019, "Blur in the Interest of Precision" at the Mathew Brown in Los Angeles
2020, "Everything that cannot be Known" at the SCAD Museum of Art in Georgia




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