Davion Alston is a visual artist and educator primarily working within photography and sculpture. He creates installations that waver between object and image, visualizing connections between the literal and represented spaces of Black and Asian artistic identity. Integrating photographs with sculpture and thread, he improvises an unbroken line between the studio, the picture, and the wall.
Alston received his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2023 and his BFA from the Welch School of Art and Design at Georgia State University in 2016. He currently lives and works between Atlanta, GA, New Haven, CT, and New York City.
His work has been exhibited at AMANITA in New York City, François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, Atlanta Center for Photography, The Afro- American Cultural Center at Yale University, ISA Art Gallery in Jakarta, Indonesia, Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, Green Gallery at the Yale School of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Belfast Photo festival in Ireland, and the South East Asia Art Focus in Singapore. His work has also been featured in publications such as Aperture Magazine, Atlanta Journal Constitute, BURNAWAY, The New York Times, Octopus Publication, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, ArtsATL, Art & Market, Vice, Whitewall Art, and Cultured Magazine.