Reg Davidson (Haida Art)

Reg Davidson dancing the Chiefs dance

 

Reg Davidson is from the Eagle Clan. He was born in Masset in 1954.  He began carving in 1972.

 

His influences include: brother Robert Davidson, father Claude Davidson, grandmother Florence Davidson, great grandfather Charles Edenshaw.

 

His many published and widely exhibited works include: limited edition prints, silver and gold jewellery, masks, helmets, large poles, rattles, argillite sculptures and drums. Reg is also an accomplished singer and dancer with the Rainbow Creek Dancers, a Haida Dance group formed in 1980 by Reg and Robert. Among his many interesting commissions was a major totem pole project that was ordered by the successful British artist, Damien Hirst, in 2006.

 

View Reg's Raven Mask or his Orca Blowhole Mask

 

 

APPRENTICESHIPS:

 

    • Three Totem Pole Sculptures, PepsiCo Kendall Sculpture Park, under Haida artist, Robert Davidson, Purchase, New York, 1985-88.

 

    • Crab of The Woods, Limited edition bronze sculpture, under Robert Davidson, PepsiCo Kendall Sculpture Park, Purchase, New York, 1984. of our communities

 

    • Raven Bringing Light to the World, Limited edition bronze sculpture, under Robert Davidson, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec, 1984.

 

    • Three Watchmen, Totem Pole sculpture, under Robert Davidson, Maclean-Hunter Building, College Park, Toronto, Ontario, 1983-84.

 

  • Charles Edenshaw Memorial House Front and Posts, under Robert Davidson, Old Massett, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, 1977-78

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

    • Native Talking Stick Show, Derek Simpkins Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, December 1993.

 

    • Miniature Mask Show, Altering Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia.

 

    • Eagle of the Dawn, Joint Show with Robert Davidson, Art Space Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

    • Haida Ritual Art: The Insistent Present, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1990.

 

    • Beyond Revival: Contemporary Northwest Coast Native Art, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1989.

 

    • Masks: An Exhibition of Northwest Coast Native Masks, Inuit Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1989.

 

    • Northwest Coast: Native American Art, Craft Alliance Education Center and Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1989.

 

    • Quintana Gallery - Northwest Coast Exhibitions, Portland, Oregon, 1987 and 1988.

 

    • Hands of Creation: An Exhibition of Northwest Coast Native Art, Inuit Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1987.

 

    • Potlatch Presents - Northern Comfort: Dempsey Bob and Reg Davidson, Potlatch Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1982.

 

    • Pipes That Won’t Smoke; Coal That Won't Burn: Haida Sculpture in Argillite, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, 1981.

 

    • The Legacy: Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian Art, British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, and traveled across Canada and to Edinburgh, Scotland, 1980.

 

  • Art Space Gallery: Twelve Sided Wolf, Robert Davidson and Reg Davidson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 

    • Eight Foot Totem Pole, Private collection, Bahamas, 2000.

 

    • Reg Davidson, Workshops:Haida Whistles and Haida Apron Designs, University of Alaska-Ketchikan, April 1994.

 

    • Reg Davidson: Nine Foot Haida Pole, Haida dancing, slide show, Birmingham Alabama.

 

    • Reg Davidson, Workshops: Haida Rattles and Haida Design, University of Alaska - Ketchikan, February 1993.

 

    • Yaalth Tluu:Raven Canoe, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California, 1991.

 

    • Reg Davidson: Silk-screen Prints, Cafe Gallery, Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, 1989 and 1990.

 

    • Thirty Foot Canoe, The Haida Project, San Francisco, California, 1990.

 

    • Eight Foot Pole, Watchman, Eagle, Frog Crests, Province of British Columbia for National Tour Association, Baltimore, Maryland, 1988.

 

    • Forty Foot Memorial Frontal Pole, K’aadsnee Cultural Longhouse, Masset, Haida Gwaii, BC, in memory of the late Claude Davidson and Robert Davidson Sr., 1989-90.

 

    • Eagle Memorial Sculpture, David Adam, Masset, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, 1988.

 

    • Reg Davidson: Masks, Prints and Blankets, Baya Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1987.

 

    • Thirty Foot Pole, Claude Davidson, Chief of Dadens, Masset, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, 1986.

 

  • Thirty Foot Pole, Three Figure Eagle Crest, Malaspina College for Tamagawa University, Japan, 1980.

 

COLLECTIONS:

 

    • Native Talking Stick Show, Derek Simpkins Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, December 1993.

 

    • Private Collections in Canada, USA, Germany, Japan, and England.

 

    • Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec.

 

    • Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.

 

    • Museum of Northern British Columbia, Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

 

    • Queen Charlotte Islands Museum, Skidegate, British Columbia.

 

  • Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, British Columbia.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / CATALOGUES:

 

    • Native Talking Stick Show, Derek Simpkins Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, December 1993.

 

    • Beyond Revival: Contemporary Northwest Coast Native Art, Barbara DeMott, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1989.

 

    • Northwest Coast: Native American Art, Barbara Loeb, Crafts Alliance Education Center and Gallery, Missouri, 1989.

 

    • Masks: An Exhibition of Northwest Coast Native Masks, Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, 1989.

 

    • Hands of Creation: An Exhibition of Northwest Coast Native Art, Inuit Gallery, Vancouver, 1987.

 

    • A Haida Potlatch, Ulli Steltzer, Douglas & MacIntyre, Vancouver, BC, 1984.

 

    • A Guide to Buying Contemporary Northwest Coast Indian Arts, Karen Duffek, University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology, 1983.

 

    • Northwest Coast Indian Graphics: An Introduction to Silkscreen Prints, Edwin S. Hall Jr., Margaret B. Blackman, Vincent Rickard, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1981.

 

    • Pipes That Won’t Smoke; Coal That Won’t Burn: Haida Sculpture in Argillite, Carol Sheehan, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, 1981.

 

  • The Legacy: Continuing Traditions of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian Art, Peter Macnair, Alan Hoover, Kevin Neary, British Columbia Provincial Museum, Victoria, 1980. useum, Victoria, British Columbia.

 

 

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