 His older brother, Kahlil Joseph, is a noted filmmaker and video artist who has also shown work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).Davis started painting in his early teenage years, and was so serious about his work that, according to his brother Kahlil, he had his own studio by the time he was just 17 years old.He went on to study at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, though he did not graduate.