Di-Andre Caprice Davis was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a self-described experimental artist whose research-based practice explores form and the development of non-standard languages through new media. Her work engages with abstraction, computer graphics, GIF art, glitch art, mathematics, photography, and surrealism, expanding the possibilities of visual expression. Davis’s works have been exhibited in Jamaica, Australia, Barbados, Canada, France, the UK, USA, Trinidad, and Sweden. She completed art residencies at Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK (2016), and Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad (2018). At the 2017 Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, she won the Best Experimental Film award for her work Chaotic Beauty.
Statement
My practice engages with the development of non-standard languages through new media, focusing on the relationship between form and perception. My work compares and contrasts how the human brain perceives, processes, and interprets visual imagery. Most of my digital images begin with abstract illustrations I conceptualise, experiment with, and create from scratch or with a photograph or video I capture that appeals to me for its potential to convey mystery or 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 Kingston Biennial 2024: Green X Gold, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2024 Continuity: The Exhibition, The National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2023 SaveArtSpace: Patterns in Nature, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
2023 The Video Art Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Computational Oncology Research Campus, New York, 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
2014 Trajectories: 70 Years of Art, Myers, Fletcher & Gordon, 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