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