Michael Davey
Professor Emeritus

BA (York), PDA (Edinburgh College of Art)

Michael Davey is a sculptor and installation artist who employs photography, drawing and video and whose work often includes cast materials and found objects.  His interests in landscape, industrial technology and the built environment find their way into his pieces which have been shown and collected throughout Canada, the U.S. and overseas.  His most recent initiative is the establishment of M9 Contemporary Art  Centre on the Bruce Peninsula, Ontario  where he exhibits along with guest artists on an annual basis.

Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1998 “I couldn’t contain myself”: Notes from the future edge University of Toronto Art Centre,
Sept.-Dec.
1997 Floater Red Head Gallery,
Toronto,
November
1995 Overly Charmed Dunlop Public Art Gallery,
Regina,
March-Sept.
1995 The Staples series Innis College,
University of Toronto,
March
1994 Overly Charmed Costin and Klintworth Gallery,
Toronto,
Sept.-Oct.
1992 Ex-Voto Costin and Klintworth Gallery,
Toronto,
Nov.-Dec.
1988 Sculpture Forest City Gallery,
London, Ontario,
April
1988 Sculpture Mercer Union,
Toronto,
Sept.-Oct

Collections

  • Art Bank of Canada, Ottawa
  • Damma Incorporated
  • First Marathon Securities
  • Guild Electric
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton
  • Rogers, Bereskin and Parr Barrs.
  • Royal Bank of Canada
  • Scottish Arts Council Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Scottish Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh
  • Toronto Dominion Bank
  • Tory, Tory, Deslauriers and Binnington Barrs.
  • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  • Windsor Art Gallery
  • York University

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