• KARIN DAVIE
    Strange Terrain no. 4, 2025
    Oil on linen
    78 x 129 inches
    198.1 x 327.7 cm
  • KARIN DAVIE
    Strange Terrain no. 5, 2025
    Oil on linen
    60 x 105 inches
    152.4 x 266.7 cm
  • "Davie is best known for her iconic large-scale stripey wave and coil paintings that undulate, bulge and recede. Their trippy sense of animated movement gives them a living breathing presence as if a current courses through them, pushing out at the viewer and sucking us in. These embodied sensations recall the artist’s own movements in making the work; a structuring tool that engenders not just form but emotion and idea. Its this incursion into the space of the observer that reveals Davie’s subversive use of the stripe as a catalyst for more than just optical tricks."

    - Jane Ursula Harris in "It Comes In Waves"

  • KARIN DAVIE
    Trespasser no. 1 (Small), 2025
    Oil on linen over shaped stretcher
    40 x 32 inches
    101.6 x 81.3 cm
  • Karin Davie's studio in Seattle, WA, 2025. Photo by Jueqian Fang.
    Image courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery.
  • KARIN DAVIE
    Trespasser no. 1, 2025
    Oil on linen over shaped stretcher
    84 x 120 inches
    213.4 x 304.8 cm
  • KARIN DAVIE
    Trespasser no. 2, 2025
    Oil on linen over shaped stretcher
    84 x 68 inches
    213.4 x 172.7 cm
  • Trespasser no 2 (detail), 2025.
  • KARIN DAVIE
    Trespasser no. 3, 2025
    Oil on linen over shaped stretcher
    84 x 68 inches
    213.4 x 172.7 cm
  • KARIN DAVIE
    Trespasser no. 4, 2025
    Oil on linen over shaped stretcher
    72 x 96 inches
    182.9 x 243.8 cm
  • "The body - as material conduit, living archive, and unreliable image - courses through Davie’s work, connecting viewers to the artist in immersive if surreptitious ways. Standing before one of her imposing 6 foot high by 8 foot wide foot works, our bodies are immediately overwhelmed by their disorienting illusions. In recent work, these optical antics are subtly thwarted by reminders that we are still looking at an object."

    - Jane Ursula Harris in "It Comes In Waves"

  • KARIN DAVIE
    Trespasser no. 5, 2025
    Oil on linen over shaped stretcher
    60 x 86 inches
    152.4 x 218.4 cm
  • Karin Davie's studio in Seattle, WA, 2025. Photo by Jueqian Fang.
    Image courtesy of the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery.
  • KARIN DAVIE (b. in Toronto, Canada) received her Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,...
    Karin Davie in her studio, Seattle, WA, 2024.

    KARIN DAVIE (b. in Toronto, Canada) received her Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In 2006, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, NY) exhibited a major solo retrospective of Davie’s early to mid-career work. Davie has received numerous distinguished awards over the course of her career, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Award in 2015. 

     

    Davie’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; CHART, New York, NY; Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Feature Inc., New York, NY; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY; SITE SANTA FE, Santa Fe, NM; Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; White Cube, London, United Kingdom; and Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY, among others. 

     

    The artist has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions including The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Nerman Museum Of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Tate St. Ives International and Contemporary Art, Cornwall, United Kingdom; and Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC. 

     

    Her work may be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy; Nerman Museum Of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Rubell Museum, Miami, FL; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; and elsewhere. 

     

    Davie lives and works in Seattle, WA.

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