Kenturah Davis (b. 1980, Los Angeles) lives and works between Los Angeles, New Haven, and Accra. The artist earned her BA from Occidental College and MFA from Yale University School of Art.

Recent solo exhibitions include Clouds, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK (2024); Dark Illumination, Oxy Arts, Los Angeles (2023); apropos of air, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2021); (a)Float, (a)Fall, (a)Dance, (a)Death, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2021); and Everything That Cannot Be Known, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2020). Notable institutional exhibitions include Accra! The Rise of a Global Art Community, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2023); Full Figure, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA (2023); Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Portrait of a Nation: 2022 Honorees, organized by the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, Washington D.C. (2022); California Biennial 2022,Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA (2022); Our House: Selections from MOCA’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022); Black Joy, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2016); Must Risk Delight, organized in collaboration with the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); and i:23: The Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan (2014). 

The Los Angeles Metro Rail commissioned a large-scale, site-specific work by Davis that is now permanently installed on the new Crenshaw/LAX, K Line station. The artist was an inaugural artist fellow at NXTHVN in New Haven, founded by Titus Kaphar and Jonathan Brand and a DAMLI fellow at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Davis was the 2022-23 Wanlass Artist in Residence at Occidental College, Los Angeles, and an inaugural cohort for Dorchester Industries Experimental Design Lab, by Theaster Gates and Prada. She was the 2024 recipient of the Sherman Family Foundation Residency at the Baltimore Museum of Art.