
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