Victor Davson (born 1948) is a Guyanese-born artist living and working in West Orange, New Jersey.Victor Davson website. Davson is a co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art located in Newark, New Jersey. Davson and Carl E. Hazlewood founded Aljira together in 1983 as a non-profit center for contemporary visual art to promote the work of emerging and under-represented artists.
Early life and background Davson was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and emigrated to the United States in 1973. He received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York."Biography", Victor Davson website.
Art Victor Davson's subject matter draws from his early childhood in the Caribbean, including issues such as the anti-colonial politics of that region, with inspiration from writers and activists such as Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Rodney. Throughout his career most of his work has focused on painting and printmaking. He has created a series of paintings on LP record album covers.
Davson's creative career, with a concentration on painting, has spanned more than 40 years. He has been featured in many notable institutions, with exhibitions at such locations as Francis Kyle Gallery in London, Rush Arts Gallery in New York, the Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery, at the State University of New York at Geneseo, the New Jersey State Museum, Jersey City Museum, Newark Museum and the Morris Museum.Victor Davson, 1978 Maplewood Arts Center. Accessed March 31, 2016.
Year Fellowship or Award2011 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award2011 Fellowship Awards, New Jersey State Council on the Arts. Accessed March 31, 2016.1997 J. Paul Getty Trust1995 The Wheeler Foundation1994 Pollock/Krasner Foundation1993 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Fellowship1989 Prudential Leadership in Culture and the Arts1988 Nouveau Noir (in conjunction with Jonction Internacional exhibit, Nice, France)1986 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship1983 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship1973 Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem1971 The Burnham Art Medal—National Painting of the Year Award, Georgetown, Guyana
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art In 1983, Victor Davson and Carl E. Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, a not-for-profit venture, to promote the work of emerging and under-represented artists. Aljira was located in downtown Newark, New Jersey, and had been designated by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as a Major Arts Organization
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