Ian Davenport (born 8 July 1966) is an English abstract painter and former Turner Prize nominee.

[8] For the Days Like These exhibition at Tate Britain in 2003, he made a thirteen-metre-high mural by dripping lines of differently-coloured paint down the wall from a syringe.

[9] The same year he was commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society to make a wall painting for the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics at Warwick University.

[14] Davenport showed three decades of work in a solo survey exhibition at Dallas Contemporary, Texas, in 2018.

[15] He is a Patron of Paintings in Hospitals, a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.