the Cooper Union School of Art Interdisciplinary Seminar
Moyra Davey
My Necropolis
This lecture took place on December 8th, 2009 at 6:30 pm in the Rose Auditorium at the Cooper Union
Lecture introduction
MOYRA DAVEY is an artist and a writer. Long Life Cool White, a twenty-year
survey of her photographs was presented at The Harvard University Art Museum in 2008. Davey is the editor of Mother Reader: Essential Writings on
Motherhood (Seven Stories Press, 2001) and author of Long Life Cool White
(Harvard/Yale, 2008) and The Problem of Reading (Documents Books, 2003). She was a founding member of Orchard gallery in NYC; with Jason Simon she
co-hosts the annual One Minute Film and Video Festival in Narrowsburg, NY.
In 2008-09 Davey participated in the International Residencies Program at
The Cité des Arts in Paris. She is a recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman
award, and is represented by Murray Guy in New York.
About Moyra Davey
Moyra Davey: Photographs, video, writing 1990-2009