Davida Nemeroff (b. 1981, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) works in photography, video, and installation. In her practice, Nemeroff photographs from life and then incorporates those images into larger compositions and installations. The content of the photographs stem from a restrained subjective palette that considers the human form in relationship to animals. Conceptually, her work explores the possibility of transference within documentation, in particular around the positionality of women in space. By extension, her works also reflect the formal pathology at the centre of modernist photography.
Nemeroff received her BFA from Ryerson University in 2004 and her MFA from Columbia University in 2009. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the US and Canada including 8-11, Toronto (2016); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2015); Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York (2013); Leroy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York (2012); Gallery TPW, Toronto (2011); Torrence Art Museum, Torrence (2011); Workspace, Los Angeles (2010); and Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto (2008). Nemeroff founded Night Gallery in Los Angeles in 2010 and partnered with Mieke Marple in 2011. She also is co-chair and co-founder of Sexy Beast, a biannual benefit for Planned Parenthood in Los Angeles. Nemeroff currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Born 1981, Montreal, Canada
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Education
2009
MFA Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, USA
2004
BFA Ryerson University, School of Image Arts, Toronto, Canada
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2016
Connective Tissue, 8-11, Toronto, Canada
2015
Fry Guy, with JPW3, COOPER COLE, Toronto, Canada
Nuts, Phil Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2014
The Pelvic Floor, with Cara Benedetto, Young Art, Los Angeles, USA
2012
Modern Painters, with Samara Golden, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, USA
Shellfish, with Rona Yefman, Wharton and Espinosa, Los Angeles, USA
Where the Skin Gets Pinched, with Cara Benedetto, Young Art, Los Angeles, USA
2011
California, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Canada
I Got You Babe, Katherine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
A Case of You, The Torrence Art Museum, Torrence, USA
2010
Potpourri, Workspace, Los Angeles, USA
Whitney’s Hot Like Fire, The Company, Los Angeles, USA
Group Exhibitions
2016
NADA NY, with Jesse Harris and Jenine Marsh, COOPER COLE, New York, USA
2015
Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City, Mexico
Ansel Adams Family Values, Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, USA
2014
Steve French, Side Effects Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2013
Object Salon, Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Unphotographic, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, USA
Made in Space, Gavin Brown Enterprise, NYC and Venus over Manhattan, USA
Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2012
Invagination: Write to Life, organized by Cara Benedetto, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Romancing The Stone, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, USA
Dirty Funk, ACME, Los Angeles, USA
Permanent Incandescence, Elephant Space, Los Angeles, USA
The Crystal Chain, Invisible Exports, New York, USA
Controlled Environment, Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art, San Francisco
The Work Locates Itself, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
2011
La Californie, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, USA
Eros and Civilization, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
On Forgery, LA><ART, Los Angeles, USA
Invagination A Seagull Presents Woman to Woman, 265 W 37th St, New York, USA
2010
the way the morning broke was quite unusual, Annie Wharton, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Haunted, JMOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Public Records, Public Fiction, Los Angeles, USA
Pleasure Dome program, EXiS2010 Festival, Seoul, South Korea
She Feels It All, Mulherin Pollard, New York, USA
Shadow Effect, The Company, Los Angeles, USA
Das Heilmittel, Night Gallery at Economy, Frankfurt am Main, Denmark
The Mystic Circle, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
Hurricane Doris, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
A Failed Entertainment, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York, USA
2009
H.T.A.D.I.T.F., 25 C.P.W. Gallery, New York, USA
Party Crashers, Concertina Gallery, Chicago, USA
Whitney’s Bi(ennial), c.r.e.a.m. projects, Brooklyn, USA
The Holographic Principle, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, USA
Under The Influence, 435 Broadway Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2008
The Hungry Ghost, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Three Crosses, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2007
Lady Dies, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects, Toronto, Canada
2006
El Presidenté, Gallery S.A.S., Montréal, Canada
The Denim Sisters, Pikto Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005
Paradise Lost, Society for Arts and Technology, Montréal, Canada
2004
Of Kith and Kin, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada
Awards
2010
The Atlantic Center for the Arts (with Jonathan Horowitz), New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2008
Andrew Fisher Fellowship Fund Award, Columbia University
2006
National Magazine Award –Gold, Portraiture
Advertising & Design Club of Canada –Gold, Portraiture