SARAH DAVIDSON
davidsonsar@gmail.com
b. 1989 (Canada), lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Blending In. Auxier Kline, New York, NY
2024 Wing Shapes. Shin Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Fingery Eyes. NARS Foundation, New York, NY
2022 Swamp Sight. Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, BC
2021 Side View. Feuilleton, Los Angeles, CA
2019 The Secret Life of Forms. Erin Stump Projects, Toronto, ON
2015 Backgrounds. Chernoff Fine Art, Vancouver, BC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Autumn Equinox: Sarah Davidson, Hank Ehrenfried, Stephen Gay, Marissa Graziano, Tin Nguyen, and, Alexandra Smith, Amy Talluto, and Matt Zaccari. Auxier Kline in collaboration with Hallspace, Eldred, NY
Summer Exhibition: Andreas Emenius, Elaine de Kooning, Peyton Freiman, Francine Tint, Kool Koor, Paul Jenkins, Georges Rouault, Amazonian Native Drawing, Marisol, Henry Moore, Carmelo de Arzadun, James Castle, Gerda Wegener, Henry Scott Tuke, Congo, Keunmin Lee, Mel Arzamarski, Adelisa Selimbašić, Konrad Żukowski, Purvis Young, Heinz Mack, Elisa Martins da Silveira, Mia Goldstein, André Derain, James McNeill Whistler, Alex Katz, Pol Morton, Anna Ting Möller, Richard Tuttle, Hawkins Bolden, Ted Stamm, Sherrie Levine, Chong Sup Lim, Kansuke Yamamoto, Natalia LL, Alma Lavenson, Mon Levinson, Sophie Calle, Em Rooney, Martin Kippenberger, Alannah Farrell, Sarah Davidson. Shin Gallery, New York, NY
Surface Envy: Sarah Davidson, Shawn Dulaney, Doug Glovaski, Thomas Hagar, Tyler Haughey, Roz Leibowitz, Eileen Murphy, Sean Noonan, Fran O’Neill, Shelley Reed, Jason Frank Rothenberg, Karin Schaefer, Andrew Zimmerman. Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Sympathetic Lightning: Jacq Groves, Diana Sofia Lozano, Saar Shemesh, Erin Johnson, Sarah Davidson, Laur P, Jay Pahre, mosquito girlfriend (Gabi Dao and Lou Lou Sainsbury). Curated by Sarah Davidson and Nirvana Santos Kuilan. Springs Projects, New York, NY
Hot Spell: Paul Anagnostopoulos, Luke Alex Atkinson, Sarah Davidson, Hank Ehrenfried, Samuel Guy, Jill Kerwick, Tin Nguyen, Logan T. Sibrel, Jeremy Sorese, Justin Yoon, Matthew Zaccari. Auxier Kline, New York, NY
homebodies:, Estefania Velez Rodriguez, Eridan, Amelia Briggs, Mike Serra, Jenna Rothstein, Chris Daharsh, Yen Yen, Buy Jisho, Hannah Via, Sisi Chen, Bonnie Rose Robbins, Edward Salas, Eleni Kontos, Katrina DeMarcus Santiago, Amra Causevic, Oakley Tapola, Lotte Kliros Walworth, Kate Rusek, Dan Lucal, Bong Repair, Lauren Murao Walkiewicz, Rose Silberman-Gorn, Babushkas by Mishka, Sarah Davidson, Walmen, Tyler Beard, Earth Ængel, Cara Lynch, Isabel Hillman, Spiral Bag, Wade Rubin, Matthew Giordano, Gil Riley, Will Kaplan, Pilar Lagos, MishMash, Speciwomen. Curated by Watercolour Society. 344 Broome street, New York, NY
Here, Now: Max Gideon Basch, Ruby Beenhouwer, James Bartolacci, Andrea Caceres, Jonny Campolo, Sarah Davidson, Lucia Dallett, Alexander Deschamps, Bones Gilmore, Devon Grimes, John Patrick Hackett, Jacob Hicks, Ben Lenovitz, Liam Little, Peter Mix, Kyle (Chez) Reyes, Mariel Rowling Montes, Rene Rowe, Eric Santoscoy-Mckillip, Jordan Segal, Cayetana Suzuki, Til Will. Plum Gallery, New York, NY
2024
Unruly Edges: Dani Buch, Chase Connolly, Sarah Davidson, Jenny Fran Davis, Evan Paul English, Tara Foley, Heavy Handley-Bryne, Patricia Ononiwu Kristian, Eleanor King, C. Mac Miller, Maggie Miller, Marcus Morris, Josh Nathanson, Maddie Osborne, Nancy Paredes, Phantasmata (Melinda Kiefer Santiago and Christopher Santiago), PJ Gray, Plan P, Heather Renee Russ, Kat Ryals, Zoe Schein, Lauren Carly Shaw, Scott Lander Veen, Brigitta Varadi, Rosemary Warren, Emma Welty, Matt Witmer, Charlotte Woolf, Maya Yadid. Upstate Art Weekend, Foxtrot Farm and Flowers, Stanfordville, NY
2023
Tending Otherworlds: New Acquisitions. Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
NADA NY with Daniel Giordano. Presented by Wil Aballe Art Projects, New York, NY
PASSE-PARTOUT: Charlie Perez-Tlatenchi, Claudia Passeri, Eric Mangen, Frances Seidl Chodosh, João Freitas, John Pike, Julien Hübsch, Lotte Leerschool, Sam Krack, Sarah Davidson, Vanessa Brown. Luxembourg Institute for Artistic Research, New York, NY
2022
Sift: Nicki Cherry, MJ Daines, Sarah Davidson, Anna Gustafson, Kumi Kaguraoka, Hyojae Kim, Nicole Ji Soo Kim, Adrienne Reynolds, Linda Sok, Sam Sundius and Gabriela Těthalová. NARS Foundation, New York, NY
Diapause: Sarah Davidson, Brennan Kelly and Emily Moriarty. The Plumb, Toronto, ON
2021
BLOOMDOOMROOM: Carolina Benitez, Sarah Davidson, Ryan Grover, HaeAhn Kwon, Colin Miner, Emmanuel Osahor, Dana Slijboom, Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Soft Turns, SUM, Susannah van der Zaag, Laurence Veri, and Allanah Vokes. The Plumb, Toronto, ON
2020
Deep Vision: Sarah Davidson and David Ruben Piqtoukun. Cassandra Cassandra, Toronto, ON
2019
Cognizance: Basil AlZeri, Aidan Cowling, Sarah Davidson, Azadeh Elmizadeh, Cassandra Ferguson, Jackson Klie, Deirdre McAdams, Alexine McLeod, Jose Mora, Emily Moriarty, Ben Mosher, Caroline Mousseau, Laurence Pilon, Xiao Xue. Birch Contemporary, Toronto, ON
SUPER, NATURAL: Derya Akay, Maya Beaudry, Francesca Blomfield, Colleen Brown, Sarah Davidson, Fischli & Weiss, Lucien Durey, Sharona Franklin, Ezra Gray, Julian Hou & L'escalier, Tiziana La Melia, Arvo Leo, Emily Neufeld, Ebony Rose, Alex Tedlie-Stursberg, Tristan Unrau. Unit 17, Vancouver, BC
2018
How The Wet Sock Flower Revealed Itself: Sarah Davidson, Simone Jarvis, and Sonja Ratkay. Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, BC
Staring Contest Through Fuchsia Membrane: Puddle Popper (Sonja Ratkay, Sarah Davidson, Juli Majer, Mel Thibodeau). Little Sister, Toronto, ON
RBC Canadian Painting Competition Exhibition. The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
Refiguring Worlds: Sarah Davidson, Brendan George Ko, Ginette Legaré, Maryse Larivière, Ed Pien. Birch Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Going On Without Us: Sarah Davidson, Daniel Griffin Hunt, and Emily Moriarty. Bovey Teaching Greenhouse, Guelph, ON
2017
Ancient Follicle Seeks Green Wish: Puddle Popper (Sonja Ratkay, Sarah Davidson, Juli Majer, Mel Thibodeau). The New Gallery, Calgary, AB
A Cabinet of Curiosities: Luke Armitstead, Sarah Davidson, Paul Halley and Juliana Silva, curated by Darius Stein. Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016
In Line, To Glue: Sarah Davidson and Elisabeth Horan. The Bakery, Vancouver, BC
Puddle Popper: Sonja Ratkay, Sarah Davidson, Juli Majer, Mel Thibodeau. Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver, BC
2015
Geometry of Knowing Part 4. Audain Gallery, Vancouver, BC
PUBLIC ART
2022
Swamp Walk. Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto, ON
2013
The No. 3 Rd. Art Columns. City of Richmond, Richmond, BC
CURATING
2025
Sympathetic Lightning: Jacq Groves, Diana Sofia Lozano, Saar Shemesh, Erin Johnson, Sarah Davidson, Laur P, Jay Pahre, mosquito girlfriend (Gabi Dao and Lou Lou Sainsbury). Curated by Sarah Davidson and Nirvana Santos Kuilan. Springs Projects, New York
2016
Leah Weinstein: Material Assemblies, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver
2016
Print Fair/Market, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver
2016
Ethan Murley: Traces, Dynamo Arts Association, Vancouver
2015
Expanded Non-Territory: SINELISMO (Matias Armendaris, Soledad Muñoz, Jacobo Zambreno), Project Space, Vancouver
Olio : Special Projects from Vancouver (Bartleby Review: Steffanie Ling, David Morris, Kate Moss, Kalli Niedoba, Kendra Sullivan and Emile Rubino; Isonomia by Michael Lachman; fersu by Liam Shiveral, Hugo Noriega, Tylor Macmillan), Project Space Press
2014
New Understandings of Space, The Vancouver Art/Book Fair Library & Archive, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
ARTIST BOOKS
2022
Diapause. Drawings by Sarah Davidson, poems by Emily Moriarty, design by Brennan Kelly. Full colour digital print, perfect bound, 82 pages, edition of 100.
2017
for the trees. Drawings by Sarah Davidson, essay by Brynn McNab, book design by Erica Wilk. Printed & published by Moniker Press. Risograph printed, perfect bound with fabric book tape binding. 52 pages, edition of 150.
TALKS
2025
Curator’s tour, Sympathetic Lightning, Springs Projects, New York, NY
Studio visit: La résidence artch à New York/NYC Crit Club, New York, NY
Writing workshop, The Canopy Program/NYC Crit Club, New York, NY
2023
Artist talk, NARS Foundation, in conversation with Jacq Groves, New York, NY
2021
Artist talk, Puddle Popper Lounge, Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, Vacouver, BC
Artist talk, University of Toronto, invited by Jennifer Carvahlo
2020
Plugging in: Networking in the Arts for Post-Secondary Students, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
2019
Artist talk, University of Toronto, invited by Shirley Wiitasalo.
Artist talk, Sibling, Toronto, ON, invited by Derek Liddington.
PRESS
2025
‘LES Gallery Partners with Hall Space for Autumn Equinox Exhibition in Eldred’, Radio Catskill. September 17, 2025
‘Shin Gallery’s Summer Exhibition explores art’s power to bridge divides’, Artdaily. July 24, 2025
‘July Selects: Sympathetic Lightning’, Impulse Magazine. July 22, 2025
‘Artist Spotlight: Sarah Davidson’, Booooooom. July 21, 2025
Featured Artist, Precog Magazine. May 2025
‘Sarah Davidson explores queer ecology at Auxier Kline’, Artdaily, April 10, 2025
‘Sarah Davidson: Embracing Ambiguity’, Epicenter NYC, April 4, 2025
2024
‘Queer Ecology and the Arts’, Fukt Magazine, The Nature Issue (Issue 22), October 2024
‘Sarah Davidson’ (interview), BIOMASS volume 3: mud puddling
2023
‘The Best Booths at NADA New York 2023’ (Sarah Davidson and Daniel Giordano at Wil Aballe Art Projects), ARTnews
2022
‘Absence and Presence: Sarah Davidson, Catherine Haggarty, Sofia Quirno, and Nishiki Sugawara-Beda’, TussleProjects
‘Sarah Davidson at Wil Aballe Art Projects’, Art Viewer
2021
Artist Feature, Art Maze Magazine, issue 25
Artist Feature, Peripheral Review 2020-2021 Print Publication
‘Puddle Popper’, Discorder Magazine, September/October 2021
‘BLOOMDOOMROOM: Face to Face with the Slow Apocalypse’, Femme Art Review
‘BLOOMDOOMROOM at the plumb’, Art Viewer
‘Sarah Davidson at Feuilleton’, Art Viewer
2020
‘Deep Vision: Sarah Davidson and David Ruben Piqtoukun’, Terremoto
2019
Review: ‘Cognizance, Birch Contemporary, Toronto’, Canadian Art
‘Sarah Davidson's Woven World’, Indoor Recess
‘SUPER, NATURAL at Unit 17’, Vancouver, Mousse Magazine
Editor’s Pick (SUPER, NATURAL), Art Agenda, Canadian Art
2018
Editor’s Pick (How The Wet Sock Flower Revealed Itself), Art Agenda, Canadian Art
‘Staring Contest Through Fuchsia Membrane at Little Sister Gallery’, TZVETNIK
‘Meet September's Featured Artist’, SAD Magazine
‘Sarah Davidson and Aimée Henny Brown on Fragments’, Femme Art Review
Review: ‘Refiguring Worlds / Birch Contemporary’, ARTORONTO
‘Finalists Announced for RBC Canadian Painting Competition’, Canadian Art
‘MFA students explore the life of plants in Going On Without Us’, The Ontarion, March 15, 2018
2017
‘Must-Sees This Week: November 9 to 15, 2017’, Canadian Art
2016
‘Artist Interview Series: Sarah Davidson’, The Volumes Project
‘Print’s charming for reinvigorated zine scene’, Vancouver Courier, December 20, 2016
‘Artist Portfolio: Sarah Davidson’, Kolaj Magazine, October 2016
2015
‘Sarah Davidson’s Nothing AZ’, Scout Magazine
Review: Intuition (Sarah Davidson and Linton Murphy), Broken Pencil Magazine, Issue 66
AWARDS
2025
Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2022
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2021
Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts Council
Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2020
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
RBC Emerging Artist Network at The Power Plant
Emerging Visual Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
2018
Finalist, RBC Canadian Painting Competition
RESIDENCIES
2022
New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, USA
Ecologies of Precarious Abundance: Queer Life and Natures, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
2020
Artist in Residence, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada
2016
AiR Sandnes, Sandnes, Norway
COLLECTIONS
Burnaby Art Gallery
Royal Bank of Canada
Colart Collection
The Shin Collection
Inam Malik