Victor Davson (born 1948) is a Guyanese-born artist living and working in West Orange, New Jersey.
[1] Davson is a co-founder of Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art located in Newark, New Jersey.
[2] Davson and Carl E. Hazlewood founded Aljira together in 1983 as a non-profit center for contemporary visual art to promote the work of emerging and under-represented artists.
[4] Victor Davson's subject matter draws from his early childhood in the Caribbean, including issues such as the anti-colonial politics of that region, with inspiration from writers and activists such as Martin Carter, Frantz Fanon, and Walter Rodney.
[7] In 1983, Victor Davson and Carl E. Hazlewood co-founded Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, a not-for-profit venture, to promote the work of emerging and under-represented artists.