Anna Davis is Curator at the MCA, where she is instrumental in developing the exhibition program, commissions and Collection. With over 20 years’ experience as a curator, she is known for compelling experimental projects that extend beyond the museum walls. Her current research focuses on how artists are engaging with nonhuman intelligence to imagine new forms of contemporary art.

Anna has led and co-curated numerous monographic and thematic exhibitions, including Data Dreams: Contemporary Art in the Age of AI (forthcoming, 2025), Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone, Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness, Ultra Unreal, Jenny Watson: The Fabric of Fantasy, New Romance: Art and the Posthuman and the award-winning Energies: Haines & Hinterding. In 2022, she was one of five co-curators of the 23rd Biennale of Sydney: rīvus, and in 2015, co-directed the transdisciplinary research initiative Energies in the Arts, developed in collaboration with the University of New South Wales.

Anna has published widely on contemporary art and frequently contributes to journals and exhibition catalogues. She has co-edited and authored key monographs on Nicholas Mangan, Jenny Watson, Sun Xun, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding, Louise Hearman, and Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro. She holds a PhD in Media Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours.