GREG DAVIS
Davis is a published and contributing photographer for National Geographic/Disney and was represented by the National Geographic Image Collection for over a decade. Over two hundred of his works can still be found in the archives at National Geographic. Davis’ work was recently published in National Geographic photo books, “America the Beautiful“, “Destinations of a Lifetime” and “Women: The National Geographic Image Collection”, which also has a worldwide traveling exhibition, “Women: A Century of Change“, that features some of Davis’ work. He is a member of the Fort Worth Art Collective and the Texas Photographic Society. In 2017 he was honored as the Ambassador of the Year for Austin based non-profit that funds and implements sustainable clean water systems that drive development and empower communities in East Africa. It was the first time the organization had ever awarded this recognition.
Davis has worked his way from local festivals to international exhibitions and his work now hangs in private and institutional collections worldwide. His works are in numerous permanent collections, including multiple works in the Wittliff Collection, San Marcos, TX; three in the New Mexico Public Art Collection; and two in the Grace Museum, Abilene, TX. Davis’ work can also be found in the permanent collection at the Art Museum of SouthEast Texas, Beaumont, TX; multiple pieces in the RGK Center for Philanthropy, Austin, TX; the Raymond James Collection, Saint Petersburg, FL; the Dell Children’s Collection, Austin, TX and the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, Winter Park, FL.
Greg’s first major solo exhibit for the Museum of the Southwest followed the stories of individual pilgrims to India’s 2013 Kumbh Mela, the largest religious pilgrimage in history, about which he also completed his first short documentary film, Cloth Paper Dreams.
Davis is currently offering his latest traveling exhibit, Oaxacan Gold, to art centers and museums around the nation. The purpose of this exhibition is to bring awareness to the stunning beauty, cultural depth and mystical nature of the great Mexican State of Oaxaca through an educational multi-media cultural experience of photography, folk art, textiles, dance and music.
Fate exerts a powerful pull on our lives. As Greg Davis knows, it can drag you through the mud before it shows you the light at the end of the tunnel. For Davis, fate is his quest for meaning, his desire to connect his experiences with those of people worlds apart, to exhibit that we are all part of something greater than ourselves.
After quitting his job in 2004 and selling most of his possessions, Greg went on a yearlong global soul-searching expedition. Nine months in, fate once again intervened to put him face-to-face with a Black Hmong blanket weaver in the highlands of Northern Vietnam. It was then that Greg captured an image that, unbeknownst to him, would weave their fates together and fill him with a new sense of purpose. Her still untold story is a continuation of Greg’s own. One day, he hopes to share it with all of you.
Davis’ work has been featured in several traveling group exhibitions by National Geographic, “Sacred Journeys” and most recently, “Women: A Century of Change” at the National Geographic Museum Washington, DC, Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna, Italy, Usina del Arte in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Palacio de Gaviria in Madrid, the Royal Artistic Circle Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain, Gladstone Regional Art Museum, Gladstone QLD Australia, Colegio de Arquitectos de Madrid, Spain, City One Centre Zagreb, Croatia, La Térmica in Malaga, Spain, Ba Li Chun Tian V, Shanghai, China and Taipei’s Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taiwan. He has also had solo exhibitions at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; the Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX; FotoFest, Houston, Texas; the Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, TX; the Audi Forum, New York, NY; the Art Center Waco, Waco, TX; the Center for the Arts, Crested Butte, CO; Galería Buena Vida, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico; the Georgetown Arts Center, Georgetown, TX; the Texas Tech International Cultural Center, Lubbock, TX; the Texas Performing Arts Center, Austin, TX; the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, TX; SXSW, Austin, TX; the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin, TX; and group shows at the Buddy Holly Center in Lubbock, the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas, the Children’s Museum of Minneapolis; the City Hall People’s Gallery, Austin, TX; the Mayborn Museum, Waco, TX, 400H Gallery Sundance Square and Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX and West Chelsea Contemporary in Austin, TX among others. And he has been invited to exhibit and present artist talks at Imaging USA, Photoplus, Creative Mornings, Pecha Kucha, the University of Texas, OLLI, Indeed.com and more.
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