title: Gerald Davis (American artist)
text: # Gerald Davis (American artist)
  
  Gerald Davis (born 1974) is an artist based in Los Angeles.
  
  Davis was born in Pittsburgh. His early autobiographical paintings and drawings are rendered in oil paint and pencil, using muted, almost monochrome, colours, dealing with sexuality, desire and his memories of childhood trauma. Later imagery includes scenes from his personal history as well as an exploration of universal archetypes, in "eccentric renditions of classical subjects." He received his BFA from the Pennsylvania State University in 1997 and his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999.
  
  ## Collections
  
  Davis' work is in international collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego; and the Saatchi Gallery, London.
  
  ## Selected exhibitions
  
  ### 2022
  
  You Can Cut All the Flowers, But You Cannot Keep Spring From Coming, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca Spain
  
  ### 2019
  
  Ecstatic Figure, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles
  
  Rorschach Paintings, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca Spain
  
  ### 2017
  
  Paintings, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca Spain
  
  ### 2016
  
  House with Buried Figure, LTD, Los Angeles
  
  ### 2012
  
  Paintings and Drawings, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca Spain
  
  ### 2010
  
  Nothing Is Coming to Me, Salon 94, New York
  
  The Worry Vase, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles
  
  ### 2009
  
  The Damned, Salon 94, New York
  
  ### 2008
  
  Unreal, Saatchi Gallery, London
  
  ### 2007
  
  Der Wichser, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
  
  At Home, curated by Mario Testino, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York
  
  ### 2006
  
  LAXed: Paintings From The Other Side, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
  
  1986, Salon 94 and John Connelly Presents, New York
  
  USA Today, Saatchi Gallery, London
  
  From L.A., Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium
  
  ### 2005
  
  Drawings, Tall Wall Space, The University of La Verne, California
  
  Paintings and Drawings, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
  
  ### 2003
  
  Gerald Davis: Drawings and Paintings, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
  
  ### 2002
  
  My Problem, Counterpoint Gallery, Los Angeles
  
  ### 2001
  
  Drawing Invitational, Optimistic Gallery, Chicago
  
  