Jose Dávila

Dávila creates sculptures through deliberate acts of positioning, arranging materials to reveal relationships, tensions, and meanings without transforming them through carving or modeling.

Why go

This is Dávila's fifth solo exhibition with Sean Kelly, continuing his sustained investigation into sculpture's most elemental gesture—the fundamental act of placing one thing in relation to another. His work employs stones, concrete, industrial materials, and geometric volumes in configurations that register weight, gravity, and balance in newly p

What to expect

Large-scale sculptures composed of concrete, marble, volcanic stone, metal, and boulders arranged in precarious yet inevitable configurations that create situations where materials encounter one another and new relationships become visible.

Things to know

• Dávila was trained as an architect before becoming a visual artist (https://www.skny.com/exhibitions/jose-davila5)
• His work is in the permanent collections of major institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, Centre Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofía, and MoMA
• He won the 2016 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art's New Annual Artists' Award and the 2014 EFG ArtNexus Latin America Art Award (https://ww
• A major monograph of his practice spanning twenty years was published by Hatje Cantz in 2023 (https://www.skny.com/exhibitions/jose-davila5)
• Luis Barragán's architecture has been a foundational influence on Dávila's work (https://www.skny.com/exhibitions/james-casebere-and-jose-da