Davion Alston (b.1992) is a visual artist living and working in Atlanta, GA. He was born 1992 in Landstuhl, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany and grew up with Gullah roots along the coast of Georgia. He received his BFA from the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University, and is currently pursuing his Masters of Fine Art at the Yale School of Art.
Alston is a 2020/2021 Working Artist Project Fellow for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, an International Center of Photography: Black Press Freedom Fund Recipient, and a Fotografiska Black Artist Fund Recipient.
His most recent work has been featured and reviewed in national and international publications such as the Aperture Foundation’s Aperture Magazine, Art Papers Magazine, BurnAway, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, GUP Magazine, New Art Examiner, and The Irish News.
His recent and upcoming exhibitions include his first solo museum exhibition Another Bird of Paradise , Future(s), three public installations within Belfast, Ireland, curated by Clare Gormley; the 2021 Atlanta Biennial: Of Care and Destruction, held at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and curated by Dr. Jordan Amirkhani & TK Smith.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Another Bird of Paradise, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia , Atlanta, GA
2019
The Literal is Unimaginative, Day & Night Projects, Atlanta, GA
Works on Paper & Other Interpretations, C4 Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2021
Future(s) Stepping On The Ant Bed, Belfast, Ireland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Action Required,Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Future(s): Belfast Photography Festival, Belfast, Ireland
Of Care and Destruction, Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Edge Award Finalists Exhibition Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
2019
The Artist Collection: Mint Invitational, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Loosies, Curated by Y. Malik Jalal & Doron, Atlanta, GA
2018
Fruits of Our Labor, Patton- Mallot Gallery at Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
Hughley Fellowship, Museum of Contemporary Art, GA
2017
re:FRESH, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Queering Space, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
NEWSPAPER, University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
Picture Newspaper Vol. 5 Regional Edition, Murmur Gallery, Atlanta, GA
[Working Artist Project Apprenticeship], Museum of Contemporary of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2016
Queering Space, Green Gallery at Yale University, New Haven CT
Do You See Me?, Diggs Gallery at WSSU, Winston-Salem, NC
All Tomorrow’s Parties, Hathaway Contemporary,Atlanta, GA
GSU: 18th Annual Juried Exhibition, Ernest G. WelchGalleries, Atlanta, GA
New Kids On The Block 3,Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Dinner and A Screening, The Low Museum, Atlanta,GA
2015
Square Foot 3 Art Basel Miami, Project Gallery,Miami, FL
Off The Wall Pin Up Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, GA
The Cage Space Show: ASU at GSU, Cage Space,Atlanta, GA
Mary Stanley Selects, Atlanta PhotographyGallery, Atlanta, GA
Ties That Bond, Bluemark Studio, Atlanta, GA
GSU: 17th Annual Juried Exhibition, Ernest G. Welch Galleries, Atlanta, GA
GSURC Exhibition, GSU Student Center, Atlanta,GA
New Kids On The Block 2, MINTGallery, Atlanta, GA
Mint Here to Go, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Mitwirking, Exlucis Photography Club, Mammal Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014
Low Show, The Low Museum, Atlanta, GA
New Kids on The Block, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Current, The Low Museum, Atlanta, GA
2012
Annual Juried Student Show, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
2017
Elsewhere Museum Residency, Greensboro, NC (incomplete)
Hambidge Art Center, Rabun Gap, GA (incomplete)
2016
Anderson Ranch Summer Workshop, Snowmass, CO
2015
Andrea Zittel, A-Z West Encampment, YuccaValley, CA
SELECTED LECTURES, PANELS, & TALKS
2016
Visiting Artist Lecture, Art as Social Action,Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
Talk Eat Art, M. Rich Center for Creative Arts,Atlanta, GA
2015
Artist Research Practice, Georgia StateUniversity, Atlanta, GA
Research on Racial Discrimination, Georgia StateUniversity, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED ONLINE & PRINT PUBLICATIONS