Kit Davis, based in Pasadena, California, was trained at the University of Pennsylvania, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Institute, the Art Students League in New York, and the Accademia Dei Belli Arti in Rome.

 His work has been shown over decades on both the East and West Coasts. Davis has maintained a parallel work life in visual art and writing. As Christopher Davis, he has published eleven novels, the most recent The Conduct of Saints (2013), along with three books of nonfiction.

 He has taught at a number of colleges and universities in the East and Midwest, most recently at Bryn Mawr College, where he holds the title of Senior Lecturer Emeritus in the Arts. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and has held two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and one from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has also been an artist in residence at Yaddo on four occasions and at the Villa Montalvo in California. In 1991, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters honored him with its career award.

His paintings and drawings of the past several years inhabit a spare dreamscape of loss and longing, with a grounding in the mountains and skies of Southern California.