Julyan Davis is an English-born artist based in Asheville, North Carolina. 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.
Julyan Davis
Julyan Davis is an English-born artist based in Asheville, North Carolina. 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. Julyan’s work has been exhibited from New York to Europe 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.) and the North Carolina Governor’s Mansion and Western Residence. His series ‘Dark Corners: The Appalachian Murder Ballads’, interpreting traditional American ballads through the contemporary South, has been touring regional museums since 2012 with accompanying lectures and musical performances. In 2018 he was artist-in-residence at the Gibbes Museum, where he began the book ‘The Mermaid Storm’ in collaboration with South Carolina poet Glenis Redmond.
2015 Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC
2014 Myrtle Beach Museum of Art, SC
2013 Helena Fox Fine Art, Charleston, SC
2013 Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
2012 Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
2012 Hickory Museum of Art (group show)
2012 Helena Fox Fine Art, Charleston, SC.
2011 The Bascom Art Museum, Highlands, NC
2011 Kiawah Island, SC
2010 Cabarrus Arts Council, Concord, NC
2009 Scope Art Fair, Miami/Amsterdam/London
2009 Tinney Contemporary, Nashville, TN
2009 Greenhut Galleries, Portland, Maine
2009 Art London, London, UK
2008 Mauger Modern Art, Bath, UK
2007 Carolina Galleries, Charleston, SC
2007 Mason Murer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 The Fine Arts Center, Highlands,NC.
2004 John Tucker Fine Art, Savannah, GA.
2002 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2001 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
1998 Francis Kyle Gallery, London, UK
1997 Entergy Building, New Orleans, LA
1995 First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Atlantic Gallery, Washington, DC
1994 Mistral Gallery, London, UK
1993 Gadsden Arts Center, Gadsden, AL
1988 Poole Art Center, Poole, Dorset, UK