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River Davis is an American multidisciplinary artist known for exploring the effect of consumer culture on social consciousness and art’s capacity to function as a cultural counterbalance.

He has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Hungary, Portugal, France, and Hong Kong, and is the youngest contributor to the Venet Foundation's annual summer exhibition. During 2023 and 2024 he collaborated with Bernar Venet to produce works that have been featured at Perrotin Paris, Guangdong Museum of Art, the Art Museum Riga Bourse, the Picasso museum, and more.

"I use the discarded found media of consumer culture to create wall art and installations for people who value art that examines the social effects of consumerism. My art recognizes aspect of the system and compartmentalizes them into a tangible experiences. It is 'art' as an act of defiance against the structures of 'want' based consumption. But, since my 'postmodern critique' offers no solution to the problems presented by consumer culture, I design and build interactive public art installations that use ancient structures like labyrinths and monoliths to share the esoteric knowledge of universal culture, giving institutions and local municipalities a way to provide public art spaces for reflection and meditation."
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- River