Mario Moore

Works

Mario Moore: International Detroit Playa: Sheefy

International Detroit Playa: Sheefy

Painting

2022

Oil on canvas

274.3 x 243.8 cm

108 x 96 in

Mario Moore: Nocturnal Self

Nocturnal Self

Painting

2022

Oil on canvas

61 x 91.4 cm

24 x 36 in


Bio

Mario Moore received a BFA in Illustration from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit (2009) and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art in New Haven (2013). He was awarded the prestigious Princeton Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University and has participated as an artist-in-residence at Knox College, The Fountainhead Residency and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

In his work, Moore explores the subjectivity of Black men's lives in the United States, grappling with depictions of the Black male that are rare in art, including experiences of rest and leisure, love and familial relationships. Using oil painting, silver-point drawing and working with non-traditional materials like copper, the artist explores the relationship between art, history, art history and the contemporary experience of the Black male living in America. Moore explores his own experience as the creator of his art, as a subject depicted in some of his work and as a fellow observer. The artist often looks to his own family and friends as he reflects on ideas of self-determination that are intimately connected to shared histories. This identification of the intimate also appears in his compositions, arranging the private and domestic sphere and shared communal spaces as the shared inner-world with a window showing scenes or mere glimpses of a literal (and figurative) outside world.

Moore's work has been featured in several publications including The New York Times and is part of several public and private collections, such as the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Princeton University Art Museum. Moore's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions including at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Smart Museum, the Trout Museum of Art, the N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, the Smithsonian Institution, David Klein Gallery and Jeffrey Deitch Gallery. In 2021, the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit will host a solo survey exhibition of Mario Moore's work. The artist lives and works in Detroit.

Solo Exhibitions

2022

2021

2019

2018

2016

2015

2012

Group Exhibitions

2022

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2011

2010


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