ISIS DAVIS-MARKS
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Isis Davis-Marks is a writer and visual artist who lives and works in New York City. She currently writes about arts and culture for Smithsonian magazine. Her work also appears in Artsy, Elephant magazine, Widewalls, King Kong Garçon, the Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. Her artwork has been displayed in a number of places, including the Yale School of Art and La Loma Projects Gallery. She also regularly contributes illustrations to the Rumpus. 


CV 

Born: Harlem, NY. 1997
Lives and works in New York, NY

​Education 

Yale University, B.A. in Philosophy and Visual Art, 2019 
Winter Tangerine Sing that Like Dovesong Creative Writing Workshop, 2017
Compass Philosophy Workshop at Princeton University, 2017
Bronx High School of Science, 2015 

Awards 

2018
Wendy E. Blanning Memorial Summer Fellowship for Journalism (New Haven,CT)
Creative and Preforming Arts Awards in the Residential Colleges at Yale University (New Haven, CT)
Jonathan Edwards Richter Fellowship (New Haven, CT) 

2017
Edward Bouchet Fellowship (New Haven, CT)

2015 
Yale Club Scholar (New York, NY)

​Selected Group Exhibitions 

2020 
So Far, La Loma Projects Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) 

2019
Intermediate Painting Final Exhibition, EIK Gallery (New Haven, CT) 
Senior Thesis Show, Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT) 
Black Femme Mystique, Nick Chapel Theater at Yale College (New Haven, CT)
 
2018 
Senior Thesis Works in Progress, Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT) 
SAP: Cynicism and Sincerity in Sync (New Haven, CT)

2016  
Figure Drawing Final Exhibition, EIK Gallery (New Haven, CT)

Curation 

2021 
Subject Matters: Black Feminist Visions, Artsy (Online) 

Conference Presentations 

2019
Yale Writing & Research Symposium Yale University, “Response to Sexual Solipsism: Pornography and its Discontents” Spring 2019

2018
Transforming Historically White Institutions through Scholarship Smith College
“Response to Sexual Solipsism: Pornography and its Discontents” Fall 2018

Compass Philosophy Workshop Princeton University
“Skepticism about Practical Reason: An Explanation of Christine Korsgaard’s Paper” Fall 2018

Press 

We Love the Old Internet ft. Isis Davis-Marks, We Love That! Podcast, Episode 37 

​Bookshlf Curator Spotlight: In Conversation With Isis Davis-Marks , Bookshlf Blog 

Interview, Archive 02, Saint Maison Gallery 

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