David Moos
Encyclopedia
David Moos is the Curator
of Contemporary Art
at AGO Art Gallery of Ontario
in Toronto
.
Moos went to Jesse Ketchum Public School (at the same time as Keanu Reeves) in Yorkville, Toronto and then went on to Jarvis Collegiate, he received a doctorate
in art history
from Columbia University
and is a contributing editor
to Art Papers
and Art US.
Moos served as curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art
, Alabama
. In this position, he organized the traveling exhibitions
, Jonathan Lasker
: Selective Identity, William Wegman
: Fashion Photographs, and Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City.
Moos also curated an on-going exhibition called Galore: The Continuous Painting Wall. Artists participating in this exhibit included Jon Coffelt
, Lydia Dona, Dennis Hollingsworth, Ingo Meller, Thomas Nozkowski, and Leslie Wayne. Moos also recently curated an exhibition of Andy Warhol
's audio and Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962–1964.
Moos has worked with many other artists as well including Willie Cole
, Jessica Diamond, Moira Dryer, Lonnie Holley
, Luis Jimenez
, Jonathan Lasker
, Beatriz Milhazes
, Samuel Mockbee
, Orlan
, Tony Scherman
and Lawrence Weiner
.
Moos is married to Julie Moos
, Canadian photographer and art writer.
in Toronto, Canada.
Curator
A curator is a manager or overseer. Traditionally, a curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution is a content specialist responsible for an institution's collections and involved with the interpretation of heritage material...
of Contemporary Art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
at AGO Art Gallery of Ontario
Art Gallery of Ontario
Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...
in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
.
Moos went to Jesse Ketchum Public School (at the same time as Keanu Reeves) in Yorkville, Toronto and then went on to Jarvis Collegiate, he received a doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
in art history
Art history
Art history has historically been understood as the academic study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts, i.e. genre, design, format, and style...
from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and is a contributing editor
Contributing editor
A contributing editor is a magazine job title that varies in responsibilities. Most often, a contributing editor is a freelancer who has proven ability and readership draw. The contributing editor regularly contributes articles to the publication but does not actually edit articles, and the title...
to Art Papers
Art papers
FileART PAPERS is a non-profit bimonthly magazine about contemporary art. Established in 1977 as the Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Ltd. Newsletter, it is the only critical arts magazine published in the Southeastern United States...
and Art US.
Moos served as curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
, Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
. In this position, he organized the traveling exhibitions
Art exhibition
Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is rarely true, it is stated to be a "permanent exhibition". In American English, they may be called "exhibit", "exposition" or...
, Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
: Selective Identity, William Wegman
William Wegman (photographer)
William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...
: Fashion Photographs, and Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City.
Moos also curated an on-going exhibition called Galore: The Continuous Painting Wall. Artists participating in this exhibit included Jon Coffelt
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
, Lydia Dona, Dennis Hollingsworth, Ingo Meller, Thomas Nozkowski, and Leslie Wayne. Moos also recently curated an exhibition of Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
's audio and Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962–1964.
Moos has worked with many other artists as well including Willie Cole
Willie Cole
Willie Cole is a noted contemporary African American sculptor and conceptual and visual artist.-Art:Willie Cole’s art is best known for assembling and transforming ordinary domestic and used objects such as irons, ironing boards, high-heeled shoes, hair dryers, bicycle parts, wooden matches, lawn...
, Jessica Diamond, Moira Dryer, Lonnie Holley
Lonnie Holley
Lonnie Bradley Holley, sometimes known as The Sand Man , is an African American artist and art educator....
, Luis Jimenez
Luis Jiménez (sculptor)
Luis Jimenez or Luis Jiménez was an American sculptor of Mexican descent. He was born in El Paso, Texas and died in New Mexico. He studied art and architecture at the University of Texas in Austin and El Paso, earning a bachelor's degree in 1964...
, Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker
Jonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
, Beatriz Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes
Beatriz Milhazes is a Brazilian artist.Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting.The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960...
, Samuel Mockbee
Samuel Mockbee
Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama....
, Orlan
Orlan
ORLAN is a French artist, born May 30, 1947 in Saint-Étienne, Loire. She lives and works in Los Angeles, New York, and Paris. She was invited to be a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, for the 2006-2007 academic year...
, Tony Scherman
Tony Scherman
Tony Scherman is a leading Canadian painter. Scherman was born in Toronto, Canada and graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1974. Scherman has had solo shows in galleries and regional museums throughout Canada and the United States. His expressive work often depicts historical figures and is...
and Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner
Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...
.
Moos is married to Julie Moos
Julie Moos
Julie Moos is a Canadian photographer and art writer.Moos' work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and curated by Lawrence Rinder...
, Canadian photographer and art writer.
Recent work
Moos organized the exhibition "The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art," (1950-2005) for Art Gallery of OntarioArt Gallery of Ontario
Under the direction of its CEO Matthew Teitelbaum, the AGO embarked on a $254 million redevelopment plan by architect Frank Gehry in 2004, called Transformation AGO. The new addition would require demolition of the 1992 Post-Modernist wing by Barton Myers and Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg...
in Toronto, Canada.
Books
- "The Shape of Color: Excursions in Color Field Art," (1950-2005) David Moos (Editor), Catherine van Baren (Editor), Mark Cheetham, 10/25/2005 Art Gallery of Ontario ISBN 1-894243-45-5
- "SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths And Disasters," (1962-1964) Douglas Fogle, Francesco Bonami, Moos, Andy Warhol, 10/31/2005 Walker Art Center ISBN 0-935640-83-5
- "Do We Think Too Much?: I Don't Think We Can Ever Stop" Lonnie HolleyLonnie HolleyLonnie Bradley Holley, sometimes known as The Sand Man , is an African American artist and art educator....
, Michael Stanley (Editor), Moos (Editor), 08/15/2004 Birmingham Museum of Art ISBN 0-907594-97-2 - "Samuel MockbeeSamuel MockbeeSamuel "Sambo" Mockbee was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama....
and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture" Samuel Mockbee, Moos (Editor), Gail Trechsel (Editor) 11/01/2003 Birmingham Museum of Art ISBN 0-931394-52-X - "Painting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," a special issue of Art & Design, edited by Moos
- "Forces of the 50's: Selections from the Albright Knox" by Donna De Salvo and Moos, Wexner Center (1997) ISBN 1-881390-14-4
- "Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure" by Rainer Crone and Moos, University of Chicago Press (1991) ISBN 0-226-12093-7
- "Postmark : An Abstract Effect" by Louis Grachos, Bruce W. Ferguson, David Moos, and David Pagel, SITE Santa Fe (1999) ISBN 0-9650583-6-0
- "Painting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by David Moos, Academy Editions (UK) (1996) ISBN 1-85490-232-6
- "Sigmar PolkeSigmar PolkeSigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matter and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint...
" by David Moos (2004) ISBN 89-954651-6-6 - "Jonathan LaskerJonathan LaskerJonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
: Selective Identity : Paintings from the 1990s" by Moos, Jonathan Lasker, and Michael Auping, Birmingham Museum of Art (1999) ISBN 0-931394-44-9 - "Philip Akkeman - The Mirrors Secret" by David Moos and Jan van Adrichem, Stroom The Hague's Center for Visual Arts (1999) ISBN 90-73799-31-7
- "Telling the Tales of Painting" by Jonathan LaskerJonathan LaskerJonathan Lasker is an American artist.Lasker was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City as well as California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California....
, Moos, and Rainer Crone, Edition Cantz (1994) ISBN 3-89322-564-1 - "Sorel EtrogSorel EtrogSorel Etrog, is a Romanian-born Canadian artist, writer, and philosopher best known for his work as a sculptor.Born in Iaşi, Romania, in 1933, Sorel Etrog's formal art training began in 1945. In 1950, his family immigrated to Israel, where beginning in 1953 he studied at the Institute of Painting...
: Human Traces" by Moos and Etrog, Mosaic Press (1998) ISBN 0-88962-587-5
External links
- David Moos and David Cronenberg
- Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City, curated by Moos
- The Judith Rothschild Foundation. Essays on exhibition catalog for Moira Dryer exhibition at the Art Gallery for York University
- the medium is the message with space, David Moos, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
- -Contributing editor for Art PapersArt papersFileART PAPERS is a non-profit bimonthly magazine about contemporary art. Established in 1977 as the Atlanta Art Workers Coalition Ltd. Newsletter, it is the only critical arts magazine published in the Southeastern United States...
- Memories of Being: Orlan's Theater of the Self, David Moos, Art + Text 54 (1996)