Tim Davis studied photography at Bard College, graduating in 1991. He went on to a career as a poet and editor in New York before returning to photography, receiving an MFA from Yale University in 2001. He has since had solo shows in Brussels, Geneva and Milan, at White Cube in London and Brent Sikkema Gallery and The Bohen Foundation in New York. His work is in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Guggenheim Museum and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. He teaches photography at Bard College and is represented in New York by Greenberg Van Doren Gallery.