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Isis Davis-Marks is a writer and visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Her non-fiction pieces have been published in Smithsonian, Artsy, Elephant Magazine (forthcoming), Widewalls, King Kong Garçon, and a number of other places. Her fiction has been published in the Columbia Journal. In addition, she has been interviewed by The Washington Post and The Yale Politic. 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. Her work primarily focuses on class, sexuality, race, identity, art criticism, social media, philosophy, and politics.
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) 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 Interview, Archive 02, Saint Maison Gallery "At Deep Blue University, Students Shocked to be Facing Trump Presidency" Washington Post "An Excellent Faculty" The Yale Politic |
