Tavin Davis
b. 1994, Billings, Montana
Resides and Works in Chicago, IL 

EDUCATION

2021-2023 MFA, Painting and Drawing, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2014-2020 BFA, Painting / Sculpture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
2014-2020 BFA, Graphic Design, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Stasia’s Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023 Sun’s Piled Up, Free Range, Chicago, IL
2022 Extremophile, Incubator Space, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

SELECTED CURATED & GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Curitiba Biennial, Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Oscar Niemeyer Museum), Curitiba, Brazil
2024 Day 55: The Sun Never Sets, Tavin Davis & Broderick McGarvey Satsia’s Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Veil, Drape, and Stitch, Zolla / Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 Fairwell from Hometown, Stasia’s Gallery, Shanghai, China
2023 The First Show, Stasia’s Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Let’s Play a Love Game, Ruschman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023 Alumni Exhibition, Color Club, Chicago, IL
2023 MFA Graduate Exhibition 1, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 AAA: Salon de Refuse, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
2022 Art in Place, Chicago, IL

GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

2023-2024 Teaching Fellowship, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2021-2023 Deans Award, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 
2018 Student Grant / Exhibition, Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana Cuba

RESIDENCIES

2023 Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
2022 Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
2018 In relationship with the Instituto Superior de Artes and Montana State University, Havana Cuba

PUBLICATIONS/ CITATIONS 

2024 Gush Magazine, Chicago, IL
2021 F Newsmagazine, Chicago, IL
2018 Research and the Arts, Chapter Introduction: Credited Contributer, Written by: Vaughan Judge, Jenny Olin Shanahan, and Gregory Young Published by: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group

COLLECTIONS

Montana State University, Print Collection

LECTURES

2023 Summer Intesnsive Visiting Artist, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
2022 Graduate Lecture, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018 Montana State University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2023-2024 Teaching Fellow, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2022 Teaching Assistant, Mark Jeffery + Claire Ashley, the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago