- My series 'Haven' was given an honourable mention for the Work-in-Process Prize of the Daylight Magazine/Center for Documentary Studies Photo Awards. The Center received over 400 entries for this prize (July 2010). - Awarded the Mark McCain Award and the Melville P. White Scholarship - OCAD (May 2010) - Awarded the Scotiabank Scholarship - Magnum Workshop Toronto 2010 (April 2010) - Clayton Cotterell posted one of the images from my 'Haven' series on his photoblog Wan.der.lust.ag.ra.phy
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
somewhere. (Group Show) September 8th to October 2nd, 2010 Opening Reception: Thursday September 9, 5-7 pm OCAD Student Gallery 285 Dundas St. West, Toronto The Exhibition will be part of the Canadian Art Annual Gallery Hop
En Plein Air (Group Show) September 25th to November 7th, 2010 Opening Reception: Friday September 24th 6-10 pm Harbourfront Centre (Vitrines) 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibiton July 9 to July 11, 2010 (10:30 am - 7:30 pm) Nathan Phillips Square TOAE
We Are Wild - Group Show May 24th to June 12th, 2010 XSpace Cultural Centre 58 Ossington Ave., Toronto http://xpace.info/
Reminiscence - Group Show May 14 to June 12, 2010 1100 Queen St. West, Toronto Curated by Robyn McCallum and Sarah Burtscher Twist Gallery
'Exposed: Innovation, Transformation, Revolution' Juried Group Show - CONTACT 2009 Gladstone Hotel
'Still Revolution' - Gallery 44's 30th Anniversary Juried Show - CONTACT 2009 Selected artists: Sally Ayre, Marco Buonocore, Dianne Davis, Charlene Heath, April Hickox, Alex Kisilevich, Heidi Leverty, Rob Norton, Chris Shepherd and Paul Till
'Sleepwalking' - Solo Show February 2008 LandymoreKeith Contemporary Art
'Surrounded' - Group Exhibition Landymore Keith Contemporary Art July 2008 LandymoreKeith Contemporary Art
SNAP!07 Live Auction March 2007 National Ballet School
adrift Metal sculptures by Karen Chapelle/Photos by Dianne Davis December 2005 64 Steps Contemporary Art
Queer in the Headlights Group Show June 2005 NOW Lounge
PRESS
Globe and Mail - Going Out - February 16, 2008 Things to Do and People to See in T.O. This Week Dianne Davis "Landymore Keith Contemporary Art may be nestled away in colourful Little Portugal, but curators Meredith Keith and Heather Landymore are culling the crowds from Queen West for their unpretentious array of Canadian art. In Sleepwalking, local photographer Dianne Davis's inaugural solo, squint to see shadowy strangers lurking through a night lit only by streetlights. Friday, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Free. Landymore Keith Contemporary Art, 800 Dundas St. W. 416-361-3074. http://www.landymorekeith.com" ANNA-KAISA WALKER AND NADJA SAYEJ
Toronto Star - Critics' Choice - February 21, 2008 "Dianne Davis's "Sleepwalking" promises the viewer a visit into "a nocturnal world where wandering characters are dwarfed by (the) seemingly endless darkness of evening." Some time ago I found what this might mean when I came across Tracey, an image by the emerging Toronto photographer. In it, the face of young woman seems to have been entirely embalmed by darkness. In the "Sleepwalking" series, Davis's artfully created darkness, obscuring walkways, trees and just about everything else, seems to be a permanent condition, not merely a time at night. (Landymore Keith Contemporary Art, 800 Dundas St. W., until March 23)." SUSAN WALKER
'Kindred' on Amy Elkin's Wan.der.lust.ag.ra.phy Amy Elkins posted one of my images, 'Tracey', from the 'Kindred' series on her amazing photoblog, Wan.der.lust.ag.ra.phy