Lisa Corinne Davis

Artist Lisa Corinne Davis is best known for her abstract paintings and works on paper resembling multilayered maps exploring perceptions of racial, social and psychological identity. Born in Baltimore, and currently living and working in Brooklyn, Davis received her MFA from Hunter College in 1983—studying with Lynda Benglis, Rosalind Krauss and Ron Gorchov. She joined the Hunter College faculty in 2002.

Davis was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship award in 2022. Other awards include the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, three New York Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowships, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2017, she was inducted as a National Academician at the National Academy Museum and School. Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail and Art Critical. Davis previously taught painting at the Cooper Union School of Art and Yale University.