Kelsey Hamilton Davis is an artist, writer, and educator born and raised in Connecticut. Her work examines and copes with domestication, vague narratives of colonial heritage, and how they interact with the simultaneously ancient and contemporary body. Her practice maintains a logic of generational collecting and iterating practices that lead to amassed objects, vessels, and textiles to meet in ambiguous situations, environments, or tableaus anchored in appropriated mythical, literary, or folk portrayals of womanhood and nature. Hamilton Davis works to achieve a sincere connection between her body, inherited identity of european dissention, and the reality of being a contemporary American.
Hamilton Davis obtained her MFA in Visual Studies under the guidance of Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas in 2021. In 2020 she was granted the Northwest Allied Artists Association scholarship award for promising graduate work in visual studies and presented work at the Lewis & Clark College symposium on Gender Studies. She has shown work locally and internationally and has participated in several residencies, including Thirdroom artspace in Portland, OR, Residencia Cortazon in La Plata, Argentina, Cortex Frontal in the Alentejo region of Portugal, and worked as a Young Artist in Residence at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark.
contact info:
kelseyhdavisart@gmail.com