Jon Davies is a Montreal-born curator, writer and PhD Candidate in Art History at Stanford University. Prior to returning to school in 2016 he worked as Assistant Curator at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery from 2008–2012 and as Associate Curator at Oakville Galleries from 2012–2015, both in Toronto. His writing on film, video and contemporary art has been published in many anthologies, exhibition catalogues, scholarly journals, and periodicals such as C Magazine, Canadian Art, Criticism, Fillip, Frieze, GLQ, and Master Drawings. Catalogues were published for the touring retrospective People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell (Oakville Galleries, 2008) and for his exhibition of artists who grew up in the shadow of the first decade of the AIDS crisis, Coming After (The Power Plant, 2012), which took shape during his participation in the first ICI Curatorial Intensive in 2010. His book about Paul Morrissey’s film Trash was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2009 and his anthology More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings was published by Concordia University Press in 2021. He co-edited issues #5 (2015) and #6 (2021) of Little Joe magazine – "about queers and cinema, mostly" – with Sam Ashby (UK). His dissertation is titled "The Fountain: Art, Sex and Queer Pedagogy in San Francisco, 1945–1995."
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