Davor is a Registered Architect, with Batchelor of Architecture (1st Hons) from The University of Auckland School of Architecture. He is a recipient of New Zealand Institute of Architects and New Zealand Institute of Designers Awards. In 2013 Davor was presented a Fellow Award from the New Zealand Institute of Architects.
He is an inaugural member of the Board of Studies at The University of Auckland, School of Architecture.
Davor has exhibited collaborative art works in galleries in New Zealand and abroad, including the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, Artplay Gallery in Moscow, Toi Te Papa Tongarewa - Museum of New Zealand, Govett Brewster, Sue Crockford and Artspace in New Zealand. Selected works are held in public collections including the Toi Te Papa Tongarewa - Museum of New Zealand, Wellington; Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki and Auckland Public Art collections, Auckland.
Davor lives and works in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Publications:
The Local Project - feature video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDtRHjxlvFQ
Farrell-Green, Simon - Here Magazine, Issue 21, Here Awards 2023 - Best New House
Hansen, Jeremy - Home June/July 2011, NZ
Hansen, Jeremy - Dwell March 12, USA
Stevens, Andrea - Habitus issue 14, AUS
Stock, Nicole - Urbis issue 67, NZ
Stock, Nicole - Architecture NZ 1.2008
Exquisite Apart - 100 Years of Architecture in New Zealand, edited by Charles Walker
Telecom Prospect 2007 New Art New Zealand Catalogue and Web www.telecomprospect2007.org.nz – Te Whare Toi City Gallery (Wellington)
Collections:
Auckland Council Te Kaunihera o Tamaki Makaurau - Public Art, Auckland (Transit Cloud, 2015)
Te Papa Tongarewa, The Museum of New Zealand, Wellington (Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart, 2004)
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland (Hauturu: The Night Shift, 2003)
Exhibitions:
Transit Cloud, 2015 - White Night, Auckland Arts Festival (Auckland).
Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side, 2005 – Telecom Prospect 2007 New Art New Zealand – Te Whare Toi City Gallery (Wellington) NZIA / Objectspace Provocative Materials, Objectspace (Auckland) & St Paul St Gallery (Auckland).
Try Hard, 2005 – St Paul St Gallery (Auckland).
Aipotu: Love Will Tear Us Apart, 2004 - Sue Crockford Gallery (Auckland), Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand (Wellington), Künstlerhaus Wien (Vienna), ARTPLAY Design Center (Moscow), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (Auckland), Hocken Gallery (Dunedin), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth).
Hauturu: The Night Shift, 2003 – Sue Crockford Gallery (Auckland), Chelsea Art Museum (New York), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (Auckland).
Tauranga Guggenheim, 2002 - Artspace Gallery (Auckland), Govett Brewster Gallery (New Plymouth).