EDUCATION

MFA Maryland Institute College of Art, 2013 

BFA Kansas City Art Institute, 1994


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Hello Darkness My Old Friend, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, 2023

Dancing For Good, Public Space One, Iowa City, collaborative public installation with artist Dawn Woolley 2020

What If Policy Was Poetic, Artboards (public billboards),Kansas City, MO 2020

Freedomination, REDboard Projects, RED Contemporary Arts, Hull, UK 2017

Picture the Wall, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, 2017

Picture the Wall, Western State Colorado University, Gunnison, CO, 2017

Reify/Deify, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO, 2015 

Cathexis, Decker Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, 2013 

Consumer Foreplay, The Studios Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2011 

The Long Winter, UCM Gallery of Art, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO, 2010 

The Woods, Empire Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2010 

Herd or Pack, Cocoon Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2008 

Life Is A Collision, The Studios Inc., Kansas City, MO, 2008

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Decade, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2023

New Painting, Site: Brooklyn Gallery,Curated by Rachel Gugelberger online exhibition, NY 2023

Joy, and Other Feats of Strength., Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO 2022

Ways of Protest, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK 2020

Who Needs This, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2019

Ad Astra Per Aspera, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY 2019

Season Change, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY 2018

Run Riot, Plug Project, Kansas City, MO 2018

Fighting Talk - SheFest, Common Practice Collective, Sheffield, UK 2018

Every Street is Charlotte Street, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2017

Underpass, ICP Sculpture Exhibition, The Studios Inc. Gallery, Kansas City, MO 2017

Summer 17, Bill Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, 2017

A Decade of Dazzle, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, 2017

With Liberty and Justice for Some, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2017

National Group Exhibition, Axis Gallery, Sacramento, CA, 2015

Broadsheets, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, 2015 

On Behalf of One’s Obsessions, Bill Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO, 2014 

Angela Fraleigh and Davin Watne: New Work,Rachael Cozad Fine Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013

Studios Inc. Group Exhibition, The Studios Inc. Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2012 

2nd & 3rd Year Group Show, Pinkard Gallery, MICA, Baltimore, MD, 2012 

Studios Inc. Group Exhibition, The Studios Inc. Gallery, Kansas City, MO, 2011 

Painting Zombies, Nash Gallery, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2010 

Black and Blue, Day Gallery, The University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 2010 

Happy Tree Friends, La Esquina Gallery, curated by Kate Hackman, Kansas City, MO, 2009

Animalicious, Rio Hondo Community College Gallery, Whittier, CA, 2008 

Beast, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO, 2007

I-70 Series, Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO, 2006 

Decentralizing the Center, Honolulu Hawaii / Kansas City, MO, 2005 

White, Mikorp Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2004 

Dangerous Art, New Visions Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT, 2004 

Art Point, Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL, 2002 

Charlotte St. Fund Exhibition, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS, 2002


COLLECTIONS

Blackburn-Cozad Private Collection, Kansas City, MO

Mary Barton Cohen, The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS

Barkley Advertising, Kansas City, MO

Drugfree Sports, Kansas City, MO

Oppenheimer Collection, Overland Park KS

Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City MO

Fishnet Securities, Kansas City MO

C and G Construction, Kansas City MO

 

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York 2018, 2023

Arte Sumapaz, San Bernardo, Cundinamarca, Colombia, 2023

Open Wabi, Fredricktown, Ohio 2018

Vermont Studio Residency, Johnson, Vermont 2015

The Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award, UMKC, Kansas City, MO 2015

Inspiration Grant, ArtsKC/Missouri Arts Council individual artist grant, 2014 & 2007

Pedra Sina Artist Residency, Madeira, Portugal, 2012

Graduate Research Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art, travel grant for residency in Portugal, 2012

The Studios Inc. Residency awarded at the The Studios Inc. Kansas City, 2007-2013

Art in the Loop Grant, Public Arts Grant for permanent sculpture downtown Kansas City, 2005

Charlotte St. Award, Annually awarded individual artist grant, 2002

Avenue of the Arts, Municipal Arts Grant Kansas City, MO public art project downtown Kansas City, 2001


SELECTED PRESS

KC Studios, Davin Watne “Hello Darkness My Old Friend” Haw Contemporary, April 2023

A5 Magazine, London, UK November 2019

Informality Art & Culture, Davin Watne’s Forced Perspective in “Picture the Wall” at Haw Contemporary

KC Studios, Master of None

Huffington Post, Dual Exhibitions at PLUG Projects Explore the Cosmos, March, 2015

Kansas City Star, Review of Angela Fraleigh and Davin Watne: New Work, February, 2014

New American Paintings Blog, Modern and Natural Worlds: The Evolution of Davin Watne, May, 2012

Oxford American Magazine, 100 Best Southern Artist, March, 2012

Kansas City Star, Review of Consumer Foreplay, solo exhibition, May, 2011

Kansas City Star, Review of Corporate Collection, The Studios Inc., September, 2008

Kansas City Star, Review of Life is a Collision, The Studios Inc., April, 2008


LECTURES

Haw Contemporary, Artist Talk - Kansas City, MO

Western State Colorado University, Gunnison, CO

Alt-Lecture - Kansas City

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

University of Minnesota, Duluth

Maryland Institute College of Art, Thesis Lecture

Pedra Sina Residency program, Madeira, Portugal

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas

Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas

Rio Hondo Community College, Whittier, California

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri