Kenturah Davis

Matthew Brown is pleased to announce the correlation between truth and time, a solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Kenturah Davis, opening Saturday, November 14, at the gallery’s Los Angeles location. This marks Davis’s third solo exhibition with the gallery.

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

Davis was the recipient of the 2025 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize from the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Rest Stops: An Altadena Garden Initiative by Kenturah Davis is currently on view in collaboration with Destination Crenshaw and Crenshaw Dairy Mart.

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 Wordplay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2026); Objects of Desire, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2025); Ode to ‘Dena: Black Artistic Legacies of Altadena, curated by Dominique Clayton, California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2025); 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 Triennale, 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 a member of the 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.

Her work is included in the collections of Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker ArtSpace, Palm Beach, FL; CCS Hessel Museum of Art, Hudson, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; Rubell Museum, Miami; Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT.