Becci Davis, artist
EDUCATION
2017 MFA, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2006 BFA, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Bloodstone + Home, Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI (curated by Brooke Erin Goldstein)
2024 MOTHERROOT, De Pree Gallery, Holland, MI
2020 Praiseworthy Deeds and Infamous Iniquities, URI Main Gallery, Kingston, RI
2020 100 Years of "Delusions and Half Truths”, Rhode Island State Archives and City Hall, Providence, RI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Shifting Ground: Where Fault Lines Become Frontiers, Make Do Studios, Providence, RI (curated by Eunbyeol Lee)
2025 Community & Connection, Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Providence, RI
2025 Go ‘Head, Fix You a Plate, AS220 Aborn Gallery, Providence, RI (curated by Jazzmen-Lee Johnson and Persephone Allen)
2025 Growing the NetWorks, Waterfire Arts Center, Providence, RI
2025 Homecoming, Aunty’s House, Providence, RI
2024 When the Wind Blows, Dirt Palace Storefront Window Gallery, Providence, RI (Installation Collaboration with WARP Collective)
2024 Inside Stars and Bodies, Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI (curated by Cybele Collins)
2024 From Hold to Horizon, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI (two-person show with Kei Soares Cobb)
2023 Women's History Month Exhibit, Crossroads, Providence, RI (curated by Dirt Palace)
2022 say the dream was real and the wall imaginary, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Joseph R. Wolin)
2022 Land and Liberation: an environmental art exhibit, Movement Education Outdoors Lodge, Saunderstown, RI (curated by Shey Rivera Ríos)
2021 Play Cousins, Hera Gallery, South Kingstown, RI (collaboration with Circle of Sound)
2021 Asterisks in the Grand Narrative of History, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, VA (curated by Jay Simple and Emma Steinkraus)
2021 Unpolished Echoes, Roger Williams Museum of Natural History, Providence, RI, (collaboration with Holly Ewald, Tomaquag Museum and RI Historical Society)
2020 Unprecedented?, Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, VT
2020 Call and Response, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2020 Roots and Roads, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT (curated by Anita Bateman)
2020 reCONNECTION, Roberts Gallery, Lunder Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (curated by Andrew Mroczek)
SELECTED PERFORMANCES AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
2025 Unraveling, Loba Lab Showcase, AS220 Black Box Theater, Providence, RI (directed by Shey Rivera Ríos)
2024 From Hold to Horizon Activations, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI
2023 Leavings, Rhode Island Humanities 50Fest, Waterfire Center, Providence RI (in collaboration with Holly Ewald)
2022 Rivers of Change, The Ricky Rainbow Beard Show, Providence Innovation District Park, Providence, RI (produced by Ricky Katowicz)
2021 We Are Rivers, Tidal Resonance, Providence Waterways, India Point Park, Providence, RI (curated by Shey Rivera Ríos and Seth Tourjee)
2021 As With Rivers, Hope in the Ever-Living Now, Providence Public Library and PVDFest Ideas, Providence, RI
2021 Whose Name Was Writ in Water, Wilbury Theater/Waterfire Center, Providence, RI
2020 For My Mother, Fire Flowers and A Time Machine, Wilbury Theater, Providence RI (directed by Shey Rivera Ríos)
2020 Ode to Home, Adaptive Practices: Six Artists Redefine Isolation and Distraction, Providence Public Library, Zoom
RESIDENCIES
2025 Studios at MassMOCA, North Adams, MA
2024 Surf Point Foundation, York, ME
2020 Pratt>FORWARD, Pratt University
2005 Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME
SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2025 Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University
2024 Legislative Grant, Rhode Island State Legislature
2023 Practitioner Fellowship, The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Brown University
2022 MacColl Johnson Fellowship Finalist, Rhode Island Foundation
2021 Public Humanities Scholar Award, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS
2025 St. Andrew’s School, Barrington, RI (Happy White Visiting Artist Program)
2024 Clark University, Worcester, MA (Department Visiting Artist Program hosted by Toby Sisson)
2024 Hope College, Holland, MI (in support of solo exhibition)
INVITED PANELS & DISCUSSIONS
2024 Center for Arts + Social Justice Fellows Panel, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Virtual
2023 MFA Alumni Panel, Lesley University College of Art and Design, Virtual
2023 The Rhythms of Black Joy, Black Music Lab, Granoff Center at Brown University
2022 My State House Exhibition, remarks at closing reception, Rhode Island State House
2021 Black Monument Builders, Brown University Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and Africana Studies/Rites and Reasons, Virtual
2021 Anti-Racist Advocacy in Education, Presented by NEA Rhode Island Racial & Social Justice Committee, Virtual
SERVICE AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
2025 RISD Museum Fine Arts Committee, Providence, RI
2024-25 Emergent Forest, Board Member, Providence, RI
2020-24 Dirt Palace Public Projects, Board Member, Providence, RI
2023 Research Residency Fellowship Search Committee, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2020-23 AS220, Board Member, Providence, RI (Development Sub-committee Chair)
2020-23 Special Committee for the Review of Commemorative Works, Providence, RI (Appointment by Providence Department of Art Culture and Tourism)