held internationally in over 50 museum collections
and have been exhibited in nearly 70 individual and
200 group exhibitions worldwide.
ScottDavisSeealso:Connor, Linda; Digital Photography; Dye
Transfer; Friends of Photography; History of Photo-
graphy: Nineteenth-Century Foundations; History of
Photography: the 1980s; Lyons, Nathan
Biography
Born in Rochester, NY, in 1953. Attended St. Lawrence Uni-
versity, Canton, NY, B.S., 1974; completed graduate stu-
dies with Nathan Lyons at the Visual Studies Workshop in
Rochester, NY, 1977. Chief Photographer for the Repho-
tographic Survey Project, 1977–1979; Assistant Director of
Photography at Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley,
Idaho, 1978–1981; Fine Arts Specialist, Arizona State Uni-
versity, Tempe, AZ, 1982–1996; Regents Professor of Art,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1996–present.
Received Emerging Artist Fellowship from the NEA in
1979; Ferguson Award, Friends of Photography, Carmel,
CA, 1980; NEA Fellowships in 1982, 1984; Awards in the
Visual Arts Fellowship, 1986; Brandeis University Creative
Arts Award, 1990; Kraszna Krausz Award for Best Books
in Photography, 1992; Japan/U.S. Creative Artist Fellow-
ship, Friends of Photography, 1993; Distinguished Re-
search and Creative Activity Award, Arizona State
University, 1999; Buhl Foundation Fellowship, 1999. Liv-
ing in Tempe, Arizona.
Individual Exhibitions
1979 Mind’s Eye Gallery, Idaho State University; Pocatello,
ID
1980 Silver Image Gallery; Seattle, WA
1981 Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities; Sun
Valley, ID
1982 Moore College of Art; Philadelphia, PA
1983 Colorado Mountain College; Breckenridge, CO
1984 Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago, IL
1985 University of New Mexico Art Museum; Albuquerque,
NM
1986 University of Missouri; Kansas City, MO
1987 Phoenix Art Museum; Phoenix, AZ
1988 Afterimage Gallery; Dallas, TX
1989 Milliken University; Decatur, IL
1990 Pace/MacGill Gallery; New York, NY
1991 Oklahoma City Art Museum; Oklahoma City, OK
1992 Museum of Contemporary Photography; Chicago, IL
1993 Photo Gallery International; Tokyo, Japan
1994 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Ins-
titution; Washington, D.C.
1995 Pace Wildenstein MacGill Gallery; New York, NY
1996 Lisa Sette Gallery; Scottsdale, AZ
1997 Galerie Fotohof; Salzburg, Austria Museum
1998 Photo-eye Gallery; Santa Fe, NM
1999 The Huntington; San Marino, CA
2000 Palm Beach Photographic Center; Palm Beach, FL
Group Exhibitions
1977 Contemporary Color Photography; Indiana University
Art Museum; Bloomington, IN
1978 Color Invitational; Rochester Institute of Technology;
Rochester, NY
1979 ...from the Visual Studies Workshop; group exhibition
traveling through New York State; sponsored by the
Gallery Association of New York
1980 U.S. Eye; Photography Exhibition, sponsored by the
U.S. Olympic Committee for the winter games in Lake
Placid, NY
1982 Color as Form: A History of Color Photography; Cor-
coran Gallery of Art; Washington, D.C., traveled to the
George Eastman House; Rochester, NY, and Creative
Photography Lab; Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy; Cambridge, MA
New Landscapes; Friends of Photography; Carmel, CA
1983 Mountain Light; International Center for Photogra-
phy; New York, NY
1985 New Landscapes; University of Tasmania; Hobart,
Australia
1986 The Poetics of Space, Contemporary Photographic
Works; Museum of Fine Arts; Santa Fe, NM
1987 Visions of the West: Two Views from Two Centuries;
Museum of Photographic Arts; San Diego, CA
American Landscape Photography; Australian National
Gallery; Canberra, Australia
1988 Tradition and Change: Contemporary American Land-
scape Photography; Houston Center for Photography;
Houston, TX
1989 L’Oeil de la Lettre; Centre National de la Photographie;
Paris, France
Decade by Decade; Center for Creative Photography;
Tucson, AZ, traveled to the Phoenix Art Museum;
Phoenix, AZ
Night Light, An Exhibition of 20th Century Night Photo-
graphs; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Kansas City, MO
1990 On the Art of Fixing a Shadow, One Hundred and Fifty
Years of Photography; Los Angeles County Museum of
Art; Los Angeles, CA, traveled to the Art Institute of
Chicago; Chicago, IL
1991 Motion and Document, Sequence and Time; National
Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution;
Washington, D.C
American Photography since 1920; Sala de Exposi-
ciones de la Fundacion ‘‘la Caixa’’; Barcelona, Spain
Night Visions; Museum of Photographic Arts; San
Diego, CA
1992 Between Home and Heaven; National Museum of
American Art; Washington, D.C.
The Political Landscape; University Art Museum,
University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, NM
1994 Eadweard Muybridge et le Panorama Photographie de
San Francisco; Musee Carnavalet; Paris, France
Critical Landscapes; Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of
Photography; Tokyo, Japan
1995 Terras do Norte; Encontros de Fotografia, Universi-
dade de Coimbra; Coimbra, Portugal
1996 Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing
West, 1849 To the Present; San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art; San Francisco, CA
Perpetual Mirage; Whitney Museum of American Art;
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