MEREDITH DAVENPORT
EDUCATION
MFA Hunter College, New York, NY 2009
BFA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 1988
FELLOWSHIPS
Pew Fellowship International Journalism (IRP), School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC 2001
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Hybrid Zones, Meredith Davenport in collaboration with Rachel Bacon, HUB Robeson Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
2018 Contingency, Tulla Arts Center, Tirana, Albania
2017 8, 817 Goodbyes, Children’s Museum, Troy, NY
2017 8, 817 Goodbyes and Theater of War, The Sanctuary for Independent Media,
Troy, NY
2016 8,817 Goodbyes, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY
2015 RICK’S HEART, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2015 Theater of War, Gallery R, Rochester, NY
2015 Theater of War UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Project Midtown, Visual Studies Workshop Project Space, Rochester, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Continuing the Dialog: The State of Photography II, Arts Center Gallery, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY
2019 State of the City, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, Rochester, NY
2018 Monroe and Vicinity Biennial Exhibition,Tower Fine Arts, SUNY Brockport
2017 Reconstruction, Project Space, BANFF Center for the Arts, Canada
2016 Luxus, Corning, NY
2016 Together/Apart, Gallery Q, Rochester NY
2015 Compartmented, The Sunday School Space, Rochester, NY
2012 The Other New York (TONY) 2012, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
2012 MARK on MAIN, New York Foundation of the Arts, Catskill, NY
2012 Mark 11/201, Rockefeller Arts Center, Fredonia, NY
2010 Greener on the other Side, International Video Art Festival, Chongquing, China
2010- MMX Screening Program, Show III, Berlin, Germany
2009 Hunter College MFA Thesis Show, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Fractions of Sight, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY
2009 Lived/Relived - Photography and Videos by Rebecca Loyche and Meredith Davenport, WA State University Tri-Cities Gallery, WA
2008 MAs curate MFAs, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Faculty Exhibit, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2007 Space Stories, Chashama Times Square Gallery, NY Group Show “Space Stories”
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 American Aftermath Grant Award Winner
2021 Paper Machine Residency, Antenna Works, Artist in Residence
2020 New York Foundation of the Arts, Keep NY Making Grant recipient
2020 Visual Studies Workshop, Artist in Residence
2018 Yaddo, Artist in Residence
2017 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artist in Residence
2017 Banff Arts Center, Artist in Residence
2016 The Gitner Family Prize for distinguished scholarship in publishing in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
2015 Faculty Education and Development Grant, Rochester Institute of Technology
2014 Faculty Education and Development Grant, Rochester Institute of Technology
2012 Everson Museum, Fellowship, TONY Biennial 2012
2012 Faculty Education and Development Grant, Rochester Institute of Technology
2011 New York Foundation of the Arts, Mark 11, Buffalo, New York
2011 Faculty Education and Development Grant, Rochester Institute of Technology
2009 Shirin Neshat Master Class, Hunter College, New York, NY
2007 Photo of the Year International Award, 1st Place, War Games, Best Sports Feature Story
2005 Photo of the Year International Award, Award of Excellence, “Medellin”, National Geographic, Best Multiple Page News Story
2004 Special invitation to Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
2001 Winner of the UNICEF Child Photo of the Year, Berlin, Germany
2001 Puffin Foundation Grant Recipient
1998 Eddie Adam's Workshop Recipient
BOOKS
Membering, Meredith Davenport, Antenna Paper Machine, Spring 2022Theater of War, Meredith Davenport, Intellect Press, Fall 2014
FILM
Child Soldiers, HBO Films, 2003 - Location Producer and videographer in Colombia
SELECTED EDITORIAL PUBLICATIONS
Smithsonian, December 2006, “Waging Peace in the Philippines”
National Geographic, April 2006 "Venezuela According to Chavez"
National Geographic, March 2005, “Medellin Stories from an Urban War”
Harper’s Magazine, May 2005, “It’s not easy here in Kathmandu”
National Geographic Adventure, May 2005, “War’s Over, Surf’s Up”
The New York Times Magazine, Jan. 23, 2005, “The Next Islamist Revolution?”
German Geo, July 2003, “Ein Streitfall namens ‘el veneno’ “
National Geographic, February, 2003, “The Nuba Still Standing”
Newsweek, February 5, 2000, “Bill Clinton’s New York”
Newsweek, November 13, 2000, p.41-42, “A tale of One City”
Newsweek International, May 11, 1998 “Murder of a Bishop” Cover and inside photo
The Los Angeles Times Magazine, Sept. 24, 1995, “The Cocaine Conundrum”
WRITING
Afterimage, “Midtown Plaza Portfolio”, Vol. 24, Nos. 1 & 2, inside and back cover
Visual Communication Quarterly, Vol. 21 No. 4, 2014 “Theater of War” Cover and pp. 24-255
Afterimage, Vol. 42 No. 1, 2014 “On Memory City: A Conversation with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb” p.6
Afterimage Online, November 2013, Exhibition Review “Becoming Visible”
Afterimage, Vol. 41 No. 1, 2013 “House of Pictures: A conversation with Susan Meiselas” p.9
SAIS Review, Vol. XXI, No. 2, 2001 “Life in a Threatened Land”, Cover and pp. 123-132
REVIEWS
City, “Battlegrounds, once removed”, Vol. 44 No. 52, p. 16
ARTnews, TONY 2012 Review, January 2013
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
Tulane University Rare Book Collection, New Orleans, Louisiana
LECTURES
Society of Photographic Educators, “Truth and Consequences”, Annual Conference, 2022
UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY “Theater of War and In Country”, 2015
TEDX, Rochester, NY “Upstate Girls”, 2014
New School for Social Research, New York, NY “Socially Engaged Practices in Art and Photojournalism” 2013
Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY “Art of War” artist talk and panel, 2012
Poynter Institutue, St. Petersburg, FL "Photo Night with Meredith Davenport", 2007
St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY "Writing in the Public Space", 2006
New York University, New York, NY "Ethics in Photojournalism" 2005
Columbia University, New York, NY "Child Soldiers", 2004
National Geographic Society, Washington, DC, "Nuba Mountains of Sudan" 2003
University of Missouri and Human Rights Watch, Columbia, MO " Child Soldiers", 2003
Tulane University, Center for Biomedical Research, New Orleans, LA "Children and Pesticides in Costa Rica", 2002
Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, "New Wars, New Media" 2001