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Hugh Davies is an American art museum director, curator, and author. He is the David C. Copley Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, an institution he has led since 1983. He has authored many books, papers, and articles on modern and contemporary art, with a particular focus on the work of Francis Bacon.

Early life and education
Davies was born in Grahamstown, South Africa in 194, to noted religious historian Horton Davies and. After his father took a position at Princeton University, Davies himself would go on to receive his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in art history from Princeton. His dissertation on the art of twentieth-century English artist Francis Bacon was later expanded and published by Garland Press, and was the first of many times that Davies would visit that subject.

Career
In 1975, Davies became the founding director of what became known as the University Museum of Contemporary Art on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, serving in that position until 1983. While at the the museum, Davies also was a professor of art at the University of Massachusetts and at Amherst College.

In 1983, Davies was hired as the ____ director of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (then known as the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art). During his tenure, Davies oversaw the opening of a second museum location in Downtown San Diego in 1993, and a major renovation of the main La Jolla facility in 1996.