Davion Alston (b. 1992) was born on an American military base in Landstuhl, Germany and through his interwoven themes of lineage, memory, and identity, Alston looks for a deeper sense of self through the histories of African and Filipino diasporas. He received his BFA in studio art with a focus in Photography as well as a Minor in Anthropology from Georgia State University and recently completed his MFA from the Yale School of Art. His work debates the idea of conflation between object and subject with deft investigations of race, gender, sexuality, class, and performance. Reconciling with these complexities, he extends his practice to assessing his Southeast Asian identity.

Alston is the recipient of the Black Artist Fund from Fotografiska (New York), ICP’s Black Press Freedom Fund (New York), and the Working Artist Project Award (Georgia), where he was one of three artists selected by Marcela Guerrero (assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art) to receive the fellowship from the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) His works have been presented in exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and in the 2021 Belfast Photograph Festival in Ireland. A new series of works contemplating suspended states of longing and the desire for closeness will be presented in a forthcoming solo exhibition at the Atlanta Center for Photography in February 2024.