Mariquita “Micki” Davis is a CHamoru artist and educator based in Los Angeles.
(familian "Pilele", Dådi yan Gadas, taotao Hågat, Guåhan, familian Davis taotao Gainesville, Georgia)
As an interdisciplinary artist, she works across photography, sculpture and performance.
Her work explores notions of artistic collaboration in the contexts of personal, familial, and communal memory.
She is the co-founder of Pilele Projects, Other notable projects include Pasifika Transmissions, a monthly learning series she co-curated that invited indigenous artists to visit the archive of the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum of Long Beach and develop a video “transmission” of this exchange. She has programmed for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and mentored for Armed with a Camera Fellowship program at Visual Communications for which is an alum.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Honolulu Biennial, University of Queensland Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, and UNSW Galleries, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, as well as Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) and Guam International Film Festival.
She is currently a participating artist and cultural worker for Gi Matan Gu’ma, a cohort of culturally rooted Matao/CHamoru artists in the homeland and in the diaspora.
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(familian "Pilele", Dådi yan Gadas, taotao Hågat, Guåhan, familian Davis taotao Gainesville, Georgia)
As an interdisciplinary artist, she works across photography, sculpture and performance.
Her work explores notions of artistic collaboration in the contexts of personal, familial, and communal memory.
She is the co-founder of Pilele Projects, Other notable projects include Pasifika Transmissions, a monthly learning series she co-curated that invited indigenous artists to visit the archive of the Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum of Long Beach and develop a video “transmission” of this exchange. She has programmed for the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and mentored for Armed with a Camera Fellowship program at Visual Communications for which is an alum.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Honolulu Biennial, University of Queensland Art Museum, Vancouver Art Gallery, and UNSW Galleries, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, as well as Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) and Guam International Film Festival.
She is currently a participating artist and cultural worker for Gi Matan Gu’ma, a cohort of culturally rooted Matao/CHamoru artists in the homeland and in the diaspora.
FULL CV PDF
MARIQUITA MICKI DAVIS
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MMICKIDAVIS@GMAIL.COM