Nina Davies

Nina Davies (b. 1991, Vancouver) is a Canadian-British artist based in London, UK. Through her work, Davies considers the present moment by observing dance in popular culture and how it is disseminated, circulated, made, and consumed. Previous research projects have included the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices.

Davies has recently had numerous solo exhibitions including For An Imaginary Page, The Photographers Gallery, London (2024); Becoming The Edit, Seventeen Gallery, London (2024); Precursing, Matt’s Gallery, London (2023); and Bionic Step, Overmorrow House, Flatland Projects, Battle (2022). She’s exhibited extensively in group exhibitions, most notably Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre (2023), and GetxoPhoto, a duo presentation with Lu Yang, Getxo, Spain (2024).

Davies graduated in 2022 from Goldsmiths University of London with a Master of Fine Art, where she was awarded the Almacantar Studio Award and the Goldsmiths Junior Fellowship position. In 2021, she co-founded Future Artefacts FM with artist Niamh Schmidtke and was awarded an Arts Council Project Grant to produce their 2022 programme and in 2023 they produced a mini-series for Het HEM’s online programme The Couch.