Statement

Dejiah Archie-Davis (b. 1997, Cleveland,Ohio)  is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the intersections  between self identity and history by utilizing mixed media, photography and video. Dejiah narrates experiences from observational and recollective memory. She engages her subjects with the exploration of spiritual and divergent connections, while emphasizing the influence of environmental transformation. While exploring with color and patterns, she creates space and depth within her pieces. Images are scaled and textured,  while her collages are remixed into repetitive moments that build upon itself until the original source is broken down, or barely recognisable. By using this technique in her work, Dejiah creates  dialogue between the familiarity and uncertainty of black sociality and futurisms.

Biography

Dejiah Archie-Davis received her B.F.A from Columbus College of Art and Design in fine arts, and has been making mixed media art professionally since 2013. She currently lives in Columbus, Ohio where she works as a full-time artist,  photographer, filmmaker, curator. Dejiah has also worked as an arts instructor for over five years within private schools and artist workshops.
Dejiah’s work has been exhibited and collected throughout the United States, featured at galleries such as MOCA Cleveland, The Carnegie, Beeler Gallery, 934 Gallery, amongst others. She has screened at the Ohio Shorts Film Festival for the Wexner Center of the Arts, where she also became a curator and juror for programming. 

Resume / CV

Dejiah Archie-Davis
EducationColumbus College of Art & Design, Columbus,Oh — BFA2019
Film Screenings
Ohio Shorts Film Festival, Columbus, Oh- 
Wexner Center for the Arts
2024 
Solo ExhibitionAll We Were, Columbus,OH — Beaton Gallery2019
Group ExhibitionsArt Basel- Miami,Florida-Kava Villa, Buro 792024
Synthesia , Fishers, Indiana-Hamilton East Public Library2024
Within Digital, Cleveland, Ohio-SPACES2024I Was Here ( Fotofocus Biennial), Columbus, Oh-Beeler Gallery2024
Freequency, Columbus,Oh- OSU Urban Arts Space2024
These Things Are Connected ( Fotofocus Biennial)Cincinnati, Oh-The Carnegie Museum2023

Packed, Columbus, OH- 
Roy G Biv Gallery
2021

Fig Art, Cleveland, OH-
 Future Ink Graphics2021
Where You Come From, Columbus,OH— 934 Gallery
2019
Similac, Columbus Ohio-Corrugate2018
The Artist Trust, Cleveland, Ohio-MOCA Cleveland2017Publishing 
Canvas Rebel, Los Angeles,California-
 2023
Artillery Magazine, Los Angeles, California-2022Shumate Spotlight, Columbus,OH — The Wexner Center of the Arts2021


CollectionsValaida Snow, Columbus,OH- Bexley Public Library2020