Davida Kidd is a very accomplished artist from Vancouver, Canada, who has received international acclaim for her original and thought provoking multi-media art works. Working primarily with photography as the final means of display, Davida includes her own self-designed fonts and painting as back drop for her photos, as well as installation and sculpture. Though linked to the “Vancouver School” of artists such as Jeff Wall and Rodney Graham, she has, over the course of her career, developed a recognizable style entirely her own, very unlike any other artist working with photography today.
A veteran of more than 150 shows and winner of more than 24 major awards, her work is in more than 40 major collections (and many private collections) around the world in museums and countries as diverse as the important Liu Hai Su Museum in Shanghai, China and the Guangdong Art Museum; Space Group of Korea; Art Form, Mumbai, India; The Royal Canadian Mint: University of Hawaii Collection; Collection of the General Council of Yvelines, Versailles, France; Warner Brothers Pictures, and countless others in countries such as The Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Egypt, and Thailand.
As much as the intrinsic documentary quality and "truth" factor of the photograph has been challenged, it still lends a kind of rational surface, which I enjoy manipulating in order to pull the viewer into my ambiguous narratives."
Davida was recently featured in the Georgia Straight:
Davida Kidd examines the value of art to a society obsessed with consumerism.
Special thanks to Davida for donating: "Zeitgeist", 2010 to Unite with Art.
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