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






























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