Short Bio
Chris Moss is an artist living in Savannah, GA
Statement
The simplified visual elements that signify a face allow for an endless exploration of material and subject. I've been working with this icon, : ) for over 10 years. It’s become a solid character or group of characters in my personal pantheon. The avatar – two dots and a line – is the lowest-common-denominator visual representation of the individual online. As remnants of our social media landscape, it's not hard to imagine these could exist outside communication technology as totems, future archaic emoji.
Biography
Christopher Moss (b. 1977, Wilkes-Barre, PA) received a BFA in 2000 from Marywood University, Scranton, PA and an MFA in 2006 from CUNY Brooklyn College. His work has been included in exhibitions at Theodore (New York, NY), Shaheen Contemporary (Cleveland, OH), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA) Field Projects (New York), LABspace (Hillsdale, NY), SEASON (Seattle, WA) and Sulfur Studios (Savannah, GA) among others.
Resume / CV
Education
2006 MFA, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
2000 BFA, Marywood University, Scranton, PA
Solo or (Two Person) Exhibitions
2023 100 Proposals for the Drive Thru Art Box, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
2022 Time Wounds All Heels, Theodore, NY
2021 Onomatopoeiae, Theodore, New York, NY part of to-go, a series of contact-free exhibitions
2017 Pfft!, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2014 King for a Day, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, New York
Gist, Grizzly, Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA (two person exhibition with Ron Lambert)
2012 Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York (two person exhibition with Scooter LaForge)
2011 Short Echo Prisms, AFA Gallery. Scranton, PA
Group Exhibitions
2023 The Odd, the Weird, the Strangely Fabulous, Ology, Savannah, GA
Best Laid Plans, Philly Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA (organized by Derek Ayers)
Sequential Obsessions, Theodore, New York, NY
Materia Prima, Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA (curated by Jennifer Moss)
Surface, ATHICA, Athens, GA
Senses of Place, Location Gallery, Savannah, GA
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2022 SAAC, South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado, AR
Sulfur Studios, Savannah, GA
Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2020 Unknown Unknowns, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Reanimator, Bay Ridge Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Giving Up The Ghost, Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Paper Plains, Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin DE
2015 Holiday Hijinks, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
Slow Enhancers, SEASON, Seattle, Washington
Family Ties, 500X, Dallas, Texas (curated by Julie Torres)
Family Style, 191 Henry Street, New York (curated by Julie Torres)
Chroma is Key, Schelfaudt Gallery, University of Bridgeport, Connecticut
2014 Real Estate, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Brooklyn Boys Go Bowling, Theodore:Art, Brooklyn, NY
Drunk Tank Pink, curated by Ben Sutton , Field Projects, NY
Suddenly, Then: Discovery of the Find, Garis & Hahn, NY
Trust in Me, Field Projects, New York, New York
Norwood Club, New York, (year-long group exhibition curated by Stephanie Theodore)
What I Like About You, curated by Julie Torres, Parallel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Itsa Small, Small World, Family Business, New York, NY (curated by Jayson Musson)
Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Pile of Clowns, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Southern Cross, Grizzly, Grizzly, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Unfunny Show, Small Black Door, Queens, NY
While You Wait, Extra Gallery, New York, NY
The Governors Island Art Fair, New York, NY
2010 5th Ave Storefront Art Walk, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Nyktomorph, Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
Missive Humor Contours of Place, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY
Would, Krampf Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Artists Space, New York, NY Night of a 1000 Drawings
2007 The Comic Uncanny, Shaheen Modern and Contemporary, Cleveland, OH
2006 No Laughing Matter, The Space, Queens, NY
Bibliography
Hessler, Rob. “Drive Thru Art Box is gonna get weird” Savannah Morning News / Do Savannah 23 March, 2023 - a version of this also appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution 25 March, 2023 Section A12 “From the Coast”
Quirk, Justin. “Contemporary Psychedelia…” artspace.com 16 October, 2020.
Weinstein, Matthew. “Christopher Moss: Not So Funny” twocoatsofpaint.com 25 January, 2017.
D'Agostino, Paul. “Art Picks” The L Magazine, March 26 – April 8 (2014) Vol. 12 Nos. 5&7 in print, p. 36
Saltz, Jerry. “See This Art” New York Magazine, February 26 – March 9, 2014.
Linneweh, David. Studio Break Podcast, Episode 115, July 11, 2014.
Butler, Sharon. “The Figure: Christopher Moss, Scooter LaForge, Dana Schutz” twocoatsofpaint.com, May 7, 2012.
D’Agostino, Paul. Gallery Pointers for Giant BOS Friday Night, The L Magazine, May 31, 2012 archived here: https://www.thelmagazine.com/2...
Bussmann, Jeffrey. “Southern Cross” title-magazine.com, December 15, 2011.
D'Alesandro, Dennis. “Constellation Closet – Southern Cross at Grizzly Grizzly” theartblog.org,
December 14, 2011.
Butler, Sharon. “Sneaky funny in Ridgewood” twocoatsofpaint.com, November 19, 2011.
Mascali, Nikki. Weekender, Wednesday, February 2, 2011, p. 35.
"Sylvia Rivera Law Project: Small Works for Big Change" Tuesday Smillie and Corrugated Press,
February 2010, ills. p. 21.
“Nyktomorph” Curious Matter, September, 2009, p. 40-41.
Utter, Douglas Max. "The Comic Uncanny" Art Papers, March / April, 2008, p. 56.
Schapel, Amanda ed. Brooklyn Review 23, Brooklyn College CUNY, 2006, ills. p. 109.
Awards & Grants
2006 CERF Award for Excellence in the Arts, Brooklyn College Department of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2006 GIP Research Grant, Brooklyn College Department of Graduate Studies, Brooklyn, NY
Publications:
2017 Remix.jpg, Artist book
2022 I Like Your Work Summer Exhibition, Curated by Jane Kang Lawrence
