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Alumna shortlisted for Grange Prize

Concordia photography alumna Moyra Davey up for Canada's largest prize for photography
October 8, 2010
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Source: Faculty of Fine Arts

Image: Moyra Davey, Copperhead #77,1990, chromogenic print, 51 x 61 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York, and the Grange Prize.
Image: Moyra Davey, Copperhead #77,1990, chromogenic print, 51 x 61 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New York, and the Grange Prize.

Concordia photography alumna Moyra Davey (BFA 82, Studio Arts) has been shortlisted for the Grange Prize, Canada's largest prize for photography.

Davey will contend with three other photographers for the $50,000 prize which is mandated to recognize the best in Canadian and international contemporary photography.

Davey was nominated for Copperheads, a series of pictures began as a collection of old pennies in various states of damage, but by blowing them up to very large size she created images that seem to be something else.

The Grange Prize is the only major Canadian art prize voted on by the public. The public can vote on-site at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, or click here to vote. Public voting ends on October 31, 2010.

Moyra Davey is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York.

Davey exhibited from 1994-2003 with Colin de Land's legendary gallery American Fine Arts, Co., and, from 2005-2008, she was a partner in the collaborative, artist-run gallery Orchard.

Her works are in the collections of numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Modern, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Related links:
- Department of Studio Arts
- The Grange Prize






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