MARIO MOORE
artofmoore@yahoo.com
mariodmoore.blogspot.com
EDUCATION
Yale University
2013 MFA
College for Creative Studies
2009 BFA
Studio Art Centers International
2008 Spring semester
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Revolutionary Times, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
2024 Revolutionary Times, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
2022 Midnight and Canaan, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2022 Enshrined: Presence + Preservation, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2021 A New Republic, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2021 Enshrined: Presence + Preservation, The Charles H Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
2019 The Work of Several Lifetimes, Lewis Center for the Arts Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2018 Recovery, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2016 Coming Home/ Here and Now, Urban Institute of Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
2015 Refracted Light, Harlem School of the Arts, New York, NY
2015 Golden Lady, The Diggs Gallery/Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
2015 Mothers and Sons, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
2012 The Study at Yale, New Haven, CT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Kaleidoscopic Companions, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
2023 Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2023 Filing in the Pieces in Black, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK and Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussells, Belgium
2023 45th, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2023 To Be Held, Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, England
2022 Andrew Wyeth:Life and Death, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
2022 Homebody, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
2022 What Now?, PM/AM, London, UK
2022 Currents and Constellations: Black Art in Focus, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
2021 The Myth Industry, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 Shattered Glass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Something About Us, Anthony Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 Gaabo Motho, Sakhile&Me, Frankfurt, GM
2020 Familiar, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2020 Good Pictures, Jeffery Deitch, New York, NY
2020 Labyrinth of Solitude, 56 Henry, New York, NY
2020 Painting is its own country, Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
2019-2020 Detroit Collects: Selections of African American Art from Private Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2019-2020 States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
2019 Down Time: On the Art of Retreat, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2019 Men of Change, Smithsonian Sites Exhibition, Traveling show
2019 Fashioning the Black Body, Projects+Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2018 ICONS, Xavier University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2018 Black Blooded, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
2018 Kaleidoscope, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Universal Belonging, PRIZM Art Fair , Miami, FL
2017 Truth, Gallery at BRIC House , Brooklyn, NY
2017 Evidence of Things not seen, College for Creative Studies Center galleries , Detroit, MI
2017 Right Side Out: the Modern Self-Portrait, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Maine
2017 Summer Selections, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2017 Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2017 Dogs, Raymond Duck, Brooklyn, NY
2016 60 Americans, Makeshift Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Rock the Vote presents: Truth to Power, Pop up exhibit, Philadelphia, PA
2015 The Change We Want To See: Artists Reflect on Detroit, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
2015 Wish List, The Gallery Project, Toledo, OH - Ann Arbor, MI
2015 Slow Jamz, Jessie Edelman Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2014 A Rose is a Rose, The Butcher’s Daughter, New York, NY
2014 Forecast: Overflow, Brown and Juanita C. Ford Art Gallery Downtown Campus, Detroit, MI
2014 Do the Yale Thing: An Exhibition of Exceptional Artwork by Recent Yale MFA
Graduates, N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2014 Corpus Americus, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
2013 Kumusha (The Shona word for “Home”), Public Pool, Hamtramck , MI and
Harare, Zimbabwe
2013 MFA Thesis show, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2013 Great American Artists-Part III: The Seeds,
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI
2011 First Year Graduate Show, Yale School of Art Green Gallery, New Haven, CT
2010 Mines Yours, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2010 Politics of Fear, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2010 Figure Exhibition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
2010 Great American Artist Exhibit, Arts league of Michigan, Detroit, MI
LECTURES
2023 Visiting Critic, Boston University, Boston, MA
2019 Visiting Artist Program, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Activism in Academia III: Black Men and the Fleeting pursuit of Relaxation, CUNY, New York, NY
2019 Provost Speaker Series, The Voice of Art: Titus Kaphar and Mario Moore, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
2018 Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2017 Reconsidering the painter's gaze: The work of Mario Moore, Pfeiffer University, Misenheimer, NC
2016 Home Grown in Detroit and Beyond: Art of Mario Moore, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2016 Artist talk with Jonathon Patton, Harlem School of the Arts, New York, NY
2015 University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC
2015 Knox College, Galesburg, IL
2015 College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2014 Panel discussion, George N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
2023 Kresge Arts Fellow
2023 College for Creative Studies Distinguished Alumni Award
2022 Artist-In-Residence, Duke University
2018-2019 Princeton Hodder Fellowship, NJ
2017 Josef And Anni Albers Foundation, CT
2017 The Fountainhead Residency, Miami
2015 Artist-In-Residence, Knox College
2012 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, 2012 Stacey Scholarship
2011 The NAMTA Foundation, 2011 NAMTA Foundation Visual Arts Major Scholarship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Princeton University Art Museum
Detroit Institute of Arts
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Mott-Warsh Collection
Winston-Salem State University
Knox College
Louisiana State University Museum of Art
Flint Institute of Arts
Harvey B. Gantt Center
California African American Museum
Grand Rapids Museum of Art
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
International African American Museum
Cranbrook Art Museum