jennifer hope davy is an artist and writer working across disciplines in exhibition, performance, fiction, and art writing. she received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, her MA from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and her PhD from the European Graduate School | EGS.

PROJECTS & WRITING

Lost Its Stirrup, Found Its Ground
Catalogue essay for Hills Snyder: Magdalena Drawings published by Warehouse 1-10 (2025)
Do you really believe that?
Co-curator for exhibitions honoring the late art historian, critic, and curator Dr. Frances Colpitt at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, TCU (2024) and UTSA Main Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio (2025). Co-editor and writer for the exhibition catalogue and reader published by UTSA Arts and The Art Galleries at TCU (2025).
Out Here in Magdalena: Three Approaches to Draw From
Feature review for the online art magazine, Glasstire {Texas Visual Art}
A Place to Call Home on the Way to One’s Own Museum Prescriptions for a Healthy City–Is Art that Good? Center for Public Secrets: Not Leaving History to Historians Alone
Short features for the online magazine, The Urban Activist
Staging Aporia: putting together impossible things
Critical encounters with art and theory published by Passagen Verlag (2021)
Oceans
Essay contribution for Verstärkung/Amplification, a sound performance and installation by Armin Gerold Lorenz, first presented at Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Gräz (2021)
Meteor
the meteor grazed the side of her thigh leaving a luminous deep blue tar-like residue in the open wound of her burned flesh
Text piece inspired from a passage in Rachel Kushner's The Flamethrowers (2013) and the singular (thus far) account of Ann Hodges, who was struck by a meteorite in Sylacauga, Alabama on November 30, 1954. vinyl lettering in metallic blue gradation dimensions variable (2019)
Sometimes, the sun
Sometimes, the sun rises in the hollow of my ear
Letterpress on xxx, edition of 25 (2019)
On Endings
Photographs for the collaborative book project On Endings with poet Allison Grimaldi-Donahue, and philosopher Julia Hölzl published by Delere Press (2019). Reading and screening first presented with Otherwise Bookshop & Altroquando Libreria, Rome, moderated by Giuliana Crispiani, NERO editions (2019).
Tell Me A Story
Tell me a story and I'll be your reflection
Site-specific installation for the Tulsa Artist Fellowship exhibition turnaround at True Turn in Tulsa (2019). etched Plexi-glas, sunlight, shadow dimensions (2019)
W/righting Ourselves: from memoir to monologue
Co-producer and editor for the collaborative project, W/righting Ourselves: from memoir to monologue, with Domestic Violence Intervention Services [DVIS] and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship. First presented at the Gilcrease Museum Theatre in Tulsa (2019).
Under Breath
Short story, first presented with recorded audio voice accompaniment for the Tulsa Voice reading series at Tulsa Lit Fest curated by Liz Blood (2018).
Storyboards
photo/text series (2018- ) archival inkjet prints
Arabesque
Installation for the exhibition Powerplay curated by Radical Adults Production at Schau Fenster, Berlin (2016).
[Given, If, Then]: A Reading in Three Parts
Photographs for a collaborative book project with theorist Jeremy Fernando, and philosopher Julia Hölzl, published by Delere Press (2015). Photographs first presented in the exhibition Given, If, Then at Studio Luz Maria Sanchez as part of MACO (2015) .
Regali
Co-artist, curator, mentor for an artist's residency workshop and exhibition at FARM Cultura Park, Favara, Sicily (2014) and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston (2016).
Pedestrian Stories
Collection of three short stories and photographs published by Delere Press (2014). Each story was produced in-situ in a twenty-four sitting. All three stories, or excerpts from them, have been performed live with audio and visual accompaniment.
FIN
Video installation for Forming Motion curated by Kim Collmer for Director's Lounge at Black Box, Düsseldorf Film Museum (2013).
Flag [2x pix]
Object intervention and performance. Intervention in the flag architecture of the New World Summit installation by artist Jonas Staal at the 7th Berlin Biennale (2012). First presented to inaugurate the Institute for Contemporary Art Ražanj (2010).
Castrato: cuts from a scene [maybe change to 4pix]
Solo exhibition culminated from an artist residency at BOCS, Catania, Sicily (2012).
Total Fuckin’ Darkness
Installation and performance first presented for the exhibition One Night Stand at appartement, Berlin (2010) and Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction at Schau Fenster, Berlin (2012).
Aporetic Interventions
Performance lecture for an evening of talks curated by Christian Hanäggi at Cabaret Voltaire (2011).
It’s Your Timing
Embossed cards handed out at random. First presented anonymously at Berlin Biennial 9 (2016), and as part of the exhibition New/Now at the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa (2018).
Frankenstein’s Madonna: living in a (im)material world
Catalogue essay for the exhibition Material Culture curated by Frances Colpitt at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, published by TCU Press (2010).
Institute for Contemporary Art Ražanj
Exhibition project co-curator and artist with Sub-Art Residency and Trampoline: Agency for Art and Media One Night Stand at Institute for Contemporary Art Ražanj, Croatia (2010).
Rural Economy: is that a donkey or a cow
Essay for Art Lies: A Contemporary Art Quarterly guest edited by artist Chris Sauter (2010).