Lisa Corinne Davis is a Brooklyn-based painter best known for paintings and works onpaper that resemble multilayered maps with encoded narratives. Her “inventive geography”prompts a wide range of interpretations; its open-endedness is a stance she activelycultivates. The resultant mix of eclectic form and content is surprising as well as stimulating.Davis, who is Black, explores the complex relationship between “race, culture and history”and, with it, ideas about classification and contingency, the rational and irrational, chaosand order. Born in Baltimore, MD, Davis received her BFA from Pratt Institute, and her MFA fromHunter College. Her paintings have been exhibited across the United States and in Europeand have been received positively by the press including The Telegraph, Art News, Art inAmerica, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Hopkins Review, The New York Times and TheBrooklyn Rail. Davis is currently represented by Miles McEnery Gallery (New York) and TheMayor Gallery (London). Davis’ work is included in many prestigious private and public collections including the NationalMuseum of African American Art & Culture, Washington, DC, The Museum of Modern Art,(artist’s books), the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and ThePhiladelphia Museum of Art, which is documented in the book, Represent: 200 Years of AfricanAmerican Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art , by Gwendolyn DuBois, Yale University Press,2014. Her three permanent MTA Arts & Design mosaics can be seen at the 68th St/HunterCollege subway station. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, The LouisComfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual ArtistFellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and four Artist Fellowships from The NewYork Foundation for the Arts. In 2017, she was inducted as a National Academician at theNational Academy Museum & School. A renowned professor, having taught at Yale University School of Art, and currently asProfessor of Art at Hunter College. She has lectured widely on her work and other art-relatedsubjects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth College, CornellUniversity, the National Academy of Design, and the National Arts Education Association toname a few. Her essays on art and culture have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Art Critical, and Art Forum magazines. Davis is a fully engaged participant in the current art scene with recorded podcasts, participationin performance art, curatorial projects, and inclusion in the films Flow State and The Art ofMaking It .