Moyra Davey
- Birth Year1958
- NationalityCanadian
Biography
Moyra Davey (b. 1958, Canada) is a Canadian artist, photographer, and writer known for her deeply personal and literary approach to image-making. Her work often combines photography, text, and film, exploring themes of time, memory, and everyday life.
Davey’s photographs frequently depict domestic interiors, books, and personal objects, emphasizing repetition, fragmentation, and the passage of time. She is also known for mailing her photographic prints as folded letters, incorporating the traces of circulation into the work itself.
Her photobooks and artist books are highly regarded for their intimate scale and conceptual coherence. For collectors, Davey’s work is valued for its intellectual depth, cross-disciplinary practice, and its significant role in contemporary art and photobook culture.