JULYAN DAVIS
About Julyan Davis
Julyan Davis is an English-born artist and writer who has painted the American South for thirty years. He received his art training at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. In 1988, having completed his B.A. in painting and printmaking, he traveled to the South on a painting trip that was also fueled by an interest in the history of Demopolis, Alabama and its settling by Bonapartist exiles.
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Davis now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. His work is exhibited internationally, and is in many public and private collections. Recent acquisitions include the Gibbes Museum in Charleston, the Greenville County Museum of Art (South Carolina), the Morris Museum (Augusta, GA), the Duke Endowment and the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion. Davis’s debut novel ‘A History of Saints’ was a 2022 semifinalist for the Thurber Prize.
Selected Collections
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC.
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, NC.
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC.
Morris Museum, Augusta, GA.
Governor’s Mansion, Raleigh, NC
The Duke Endowment, Charlotte, NC
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Monument, Birmingham, AL.
Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL.
University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL.
Samford University, Birmingham, AL.
Bascom Fine Art Center, Highlands, NC.
Education
1984-1985 Filton College, Bristol. (Art Foundation Course)
1985-1988 Byam Shaw School of Art, London. (B.A. Painting and Printmaking)
The Santa Fe Literary Review 2024
The Nassau Literary Review (Princeton) 2024
‘Inside Out’ (Catalogue) Florence Museum of Art, SC 2024
Southern Cultures: Center for the Study of the American South 2023
Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel Literary Journal 2023
‘The View from Here’ (Catalogue) Morris Museum of Art 2022
‘Eggs and Marrowbone- the Art of the Murder Ballad’ Book 2019 (Rotterdam)
Blue Ridge Public Radio, 2019/20
Bluegrass Today Magazine 2015
Combustus Magazine (Online) 2015
Bluegrass Review Magazine 2015
Sing Out Magazine 2014
Crazyhorse Literary Journal (cover) 2014
Aiken Standard 2013
Nashville Arts Magazine 2010
Our State Magazine (NC) 2009
Garden and Gun Magazine 2007
Bangor Daily News 2000
Savannah Morning Post 2000
Times-Picayune 1996
Memphis Commercial Appeal 1994
Podcasts:
Story StoryMade Podcast 2023
Citizen Vinyl ‘Cymbee’ Record release Interview with Glenis Redmond 2021
Art Grind Podcast (Episode 77) 2022
The Savvy Painter’ with Antrese Wood 2017
Interview with John Dalton 2018 and 2020
Coming soon!
