Karin Davie was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1965 and attended Queens University in Kingston, Ontario (BFA, 1987) and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island (MFA 1989). Davie has been featured in solo exhibitions at White Cube in London, England, and the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, as well as in group exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.