ABOUT

Dana Davenport (b.1994) is a Korean and Black-American interdisciplinary artist raised in Seoul, South Korea, and currently based between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Her work shifts between installation, sculpture, video, and performance. Within her practice, she addresses the complexities that surround interminority conflict as a foundation for envisioning her own and the collective futurity of Black and Asian peoples. Davenport's work has been shown throughout the United States and internationally including Gibney Dance, New York, NY; Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY; NYU Skirball, New York, NY; Brown University, Providence, RI; Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Cultural Center Recoleta, Buenos Aires, AR; and Seventh Gallery, Melbourne, AUS, to name a few. Davenport was selected for the 2021 Recess Session Residency and received the 2018 Chashama ChaNorth Fellowship. She was awarded the 2023 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship from the Center for Craft and completed the 2023 Bandung Artist in Residence program with MoCADA and Asian American Arts Alliance.

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WORKS

*Box Braid Chandelier #2*, 2018
Steel, plastic beads, synthetic hair from Sam's Beauty (online)
28 x 14 in.

*Box Braid Chandelier #4*, 2021
Steel, plastic beads, modeling clay, & synthetic hair from Raisa Beauty Supply in Brooklyn, NY
38 x 19 in.

*Box Braid Chandelier #5* , 2022
Steel, plastic beads, modeling clay, synthetic hair from Paradise of Eden Beauty Supply in Brooklyn, NY
29 x 23 in.

EXHIBITIONS

LatchKey Gallery | 173 Henry Street | info@latchkeygallery.com | 646.213.9070