Isaiah Davis

Isaiah Davis

SEX MACHINE 2, 2024
silicone, steel, aluminum, oil paint
28 3/8" x 18 1/4" x 11 5/8"
Courtesy of the artist

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SEX MACHINE 3, 2024
silicone, steel, aluminum, oil paint
28 3/8" x 18 1/4" x 11 5/8"
Courtesy of the artist

Isaiah Davis (b. 1992, Bronx) is a sculptor and video artist whose interdisciplinary practice is in dialogue with his leather fetishism. He has exhibited at Kings Leap, Participant Inc., and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight festival. A 2023 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant recipient, Davis studied at The Cooper Union and Columbia University.

Thematically my work engages concepts of identity, including masculinity, sexuality and Blackness. I’m interested in materiality and form that expresses a sense of double consciousness and cultural dissonance, related to the systemic barriers of racial hierarchies and the emotional repression of culturally encoded male roles.