Di-Andre Caprice Davis was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a self-described experimental artist whose practice focuses on a research-based alternative approach used to primarily explore form and the development of non-standard languages through the engagement of the capacities inherent to new media. Abstraction, computer graphics, GIF art, glitch art, mathematics, photography and surrealism are some of the fascinations that animate her practice. Her works have been exhibited in Jamaica, Australia, Barbados, Canada, France, UK, USA, Trinidad and Sweden.
Notable exhibitions include the National Gallery of Jamaica’s Jamaica Biennial (2014 and 2017), Young Talent (2015), Digital (2016), Explorations VI Engaging Abstraction (2017 – 2018), Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora (2016) at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, United Kingdom and New Century/New Materials – Current Art Trends in Science and Technology (2019) at Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, USA. She completed art residencies at Bluecoat, Liverpool, United Kingdom (2016) and Alice Yard, Trinidad (2018). At the 2017 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, she won the award for Best Experimental Film for her work Chaotic Beauty, 2016, which was also shown at The Dean Collection’s No Commission show during Art Basel Miami 2017.
Statement
My practice focuses on a research-based alternative approach that primarily explores the form and the development of non-standard languages through the engagement of the capacities inherent to new media. My work seeks to compare and contrast how the human brain perceives, processes, and interprets visual imagery. Most of my digital images begin with abstract illustrations I have conceptualised and created or a photograph or video which appeals to me because it may convey mystery or an unusual beauty. My art continues to fuel my interest in investigating and learning different ways of using the ever-changing world of technology.
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Continuity: The Exhibition, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2023 SaveArtSpace: Patterns in Nature, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
2022 REVOLUTION V25, The digital odyssey, Caen and Marseille, France
2022 The Harder They Come 50th anniversary exhibition, Kingston, Jamaica
2020 Through a Fluid Mosaic, Art Curator Grid (Online Platform)
2019 MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora presents ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offering, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
2019 NEW CENTURY / NEW MATERIALS - Current Art Trends in Science & Technology, Spaulding R. Aldrich Heritage Gallery, Whitinsville, Massachusetts, USA
2018 Transoceanic Visual Exchange, The Project Space, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2017 Explorations VI: Engaging Abstraction, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2017 Transoceanic Visual Exchange, Fresh Milk, Barbados
2017 The Dean Collection’s NO COMMISSION, Soho Studios, Wynwood, Miami, Florida, USA
2017 Jamaica Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2016 Kingston - Part 1: The City and Art, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2016 Jamaican Pulse: Art and Politics from Jamaica and the Diaspora, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2016 Digital, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2015 Young Talent, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2014 Jamaica Biennial, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Screenings
2018 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2017 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
2016 Projection Undervolt & co. - Série automne, at Société des arts technologiques. [SAT], Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Festivals
2020 Ljuset, Landskrona, Sweden
2019 Festival Artist, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (Carifesta Edition), Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Residencies
2018 AIR, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad
2016 Jamaican Pulse, Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2015 BiWay Art Foundation Online Pavilion for the Wrong Digital Art Biennale
Awards
2017 Best Experimental Film, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
Articles, Publications, Projects
NOT YOUR KIND OF ARTIST: Di-Andre Caprice Davis and the Fluid Mosaic by Maica Gugolati, Ph.D for Allegra Lab
Artist: Don’t be afraid to be different by Marshelle Haseley for Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
Five Caribbean artist in a brave new digital world by Nicole Smythe-Johnson for Caribbean Beat
Tourism Based Avant-Gardey Bashments series, Small Axe Visualities Project curated by Daniela Fifi