Michael Davidson was born and raised in Canada, the son of Anglo Irish parents. He embarked early on a life of  working hard and travelling far afield with his earnings, tracing his obsessions with music, and for one period lived at various times between London England and Montreux Switzerland. It was during this time that Davidson first experienced many of the great paintings of Europe, initiating what would become an abiding commitment to the development of his personal approach to painting. In the years to follow Davidson would return to Ontario where, after completing a degree in Fine Art at the University of Guelph, it was decided to set up home in Toronto, where he now has his practice and resides with his wife, painter Nicole Collins, and their daughter Matilda.

In 1999 Michael Davidson was responsible for the exhibition “TRANSlinear”, which he co-curated with Art Historian Ihor Holubizky, an exhibition which toured nationally.

Davidson’s work can be found in collections in Canada, the United States, Australia and England and has also been exhibited in London, New York and Switzerland. Davidson’s painting is featured in the book entitled “26”, published in the Spring of 2007, where he refers to abstraction, his abstraction, as the factual language of the invisible. The year 2008 took him to California where he contributed research into the life and work of American based painter Walter Tandy Murch and has undertaken International residencies at Triangle New York and again at Vermont Studio Center. Most recently Davidson has completed a successful commercial exhibition entitled “What Is Kept”, and will be featured again in the upcoming museum exhibition entitled “AutoPlasmic” at the McMaster Museum of Art in 2011. Future projects include continued showings with Transit Gallery in Hamilton, as well as exhibiting work in British Columbia, Maryland, and further afield in Antwerp, Belgium.