Ayanah Moor

Ayanah Moor
Born1973 (age 52–53)
Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.
EducationVirginia Commonwealth University (BA), Tyler School of Art and Architecture (MFA)
OccupationsConceptual artist, professor

Ayanah Moor (born 1973, Norfolk, Virginia, United States) is an American conceptual artist and educator. She works in printmaking, video art, mixed media art, and performance art.[1][2] Her work addresses contemporary popular culture by interrogating identity and vernacular aesthetics.[3][4] Much of her works center on hip-hop culture, American politics, black vernacular and gender performance.[5]

Education and teaching

Moor received an MFA degree in printmaking from Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia[6] in 1998, and a BFA degree in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia in 1995.

Moor is an associate professor in the Department of Printmedia, at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.[7] Her prior appointment was at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.[8]

Artworks

Moor has described her work as examining how popular culture reflects social identities and power structures. She has noted that she aims to appropriate and revise existing material to invert and expand meaning.[9][8][10]

Selected projects

She exhibited her work alongside Krista Franklin at the Produce Mode Gallery in Chicago in 2017, in a show entitled Quiet Storm.[11] In 2015, Moor's collaboration with Jasmine Hearn was included in Flow at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Flow was the fourth in the F-Series exhibitions at the Studio Museum. The piece is a performance artwork that translates drawing into sound and sound into movement. Flow is a response to the 1982 collaboration of Bill T. Jones and Keith Haring, Long Distance.[12] Thanks For The Race [2014]: Thanks For The Race (with various participants), performance work incorporating wood, mats, rocks; ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI Queer & Brown in Steeltown [2013-12]: (collaboration with Raquel Rodriguez) podcast & blog project [13] The Pittsburgh Passion Project, Independent Women's Football League [2009]: Pittsburgh, PA [14] Still [2006]: "Still" is a series of photographs that address how women are represented in contemporary rap music videos[15]

Awards

In 2015, Moor received a Hyde Park Art Center Jackman Goldwasser Residency, Chicago, IL.[16] In 2014, she received The Pittsburgh Foundation, Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Award ($7,500).[17] In 2011, she was awarded a STUDIO for Creative Inquiry fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.[1] In 2011, The Pittsburgh Foundation awarded Moor an Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Award. In 2003, she received a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation—Creative Fellowship Award and The Pittsburgh Foundation, Artist Award, Pittsburgh, PA.[18] In 2002, Moor was awarded a Berkman Faculty Development Fund Grant, Carnegie Mellon University.

Permanent collections

Moor released works the following collections: Soho House Art Collection, 76 Dean Street, London, UK, Milton and Nancy Washington, Pittsburgh, PA, Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Agency of Unrealized Projects, e-flux and Serpentine Gallery, London, UK, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA, The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, Foreland Street Studio Archives, Pittsburgh, PA, EGRESS Press and Research Archives, Edinboro, PA, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Solo exhibitions

  • 2013 Ayanah Moor, Welch Galleries, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia[19]
  • 2012 New Drawings, Braddock Carnegie Library, Braddock, Pennsylvania
  • 2011 Shift: Cambio, Poliglota Room, Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina [20]
  • 2011 Good News, 707 Penn Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[21]
  • 2009 Souljah Sotomayor, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • 2007 (W)RAPPER, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania
  • 2007 Our Radio is Bigger than Yours, Rice Gallery, McDaniel College, Westminster, Maryland
  • 2006 Still, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
  • 2006 Still, John Hope Franklin Center, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • 2005 Ayanah Moor, A+D 11th Street Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2003 A to Z Like Me, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2003 Recent Work, Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale, New York

References

  1. 1 2 "Ayanah Moor". STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "Ayanah Moor — in the beginning, sometimes i left messages in the street". Messagesinthestreet.com. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Moor, Ayanah". Aavad.com. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Ayanah Moor - Women's Studio Workshop : Women's Studio Workshop". Wsworkshop.org. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "Ayanah Moor Page". Mana Contemporary Chicago. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "Alumni | Tyler School of Art and Architecture". tyler.temple.edu. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "SAIC - Ayanah Moor - School of the Art Institute of Chicago". Saic.edu. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  8. 1 2 "Ayanah Moor - Carnegie Mellon University | CMU". Cmu.edu. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Ayanah Moor | Artist | CreativeMornings/PGH". Creativemornings.com. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  10. ↑ Matsunami, Chanel (21 September 2013). "GrapevineInk: Interview with Ayanah Moor". Grapevineink.blogspot.com. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  11. ↑ "Ayanah Moor + Krista Franklin: Quiet Storm". Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  12. ↑ "Access: Ayanah Moor + Jasmine Hearn present FLOW | UChicago Arts | The University of Chicago". Arts.uchicago.edu. 17 February 2015. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  13. ↑ "Voices Gallery Talk: Queer, Brown and in Steeltown with Rachel Rodrigez and Ayanah Moor". warhol. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  14. ↑ "Pittsburgh Passion Project, (Mistaken ID) - Ayanah Moor". E-flux.com. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  15. ↑ Moor, Ayanah (2007). "Still". Meridians. 8 (1): 205–210. doi:10.2979/MER.2007.8.1.205. S2CID 246083865. Project MUSE 235561.
  16. ↑ "The Jackman Goldwasser Residency - Current Residents - Ayanah Moor - Hyde Park Art Center". Hydeparkart.org. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  17. ↑ "Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Program". The Pittsburgh Foundation. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  18. ↑ "Advancing Black Arts Fund first grants". The Pittsburgh Foundation. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  19. ↑ "Review: Ayanah Moor's small show at GSU packs big punch as meditation on meaning of race, art". ArtsATL. 28 March 2013. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-16.
  20. ↑ "Shift". Proyectoace.org. 25 July 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  21. ↑ Veronica Corpuz. "Ayanah Moor: Good News on Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Pressroom". Pressroom.trustarts.org. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2015.

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