Biography
Ayanah Moor is a visual artist and educator living and working in Chicago. She earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her artwork is held in public and private collections, including the Capital Group (Los Angeles); DePaul Art Museum (Chicago); Soho House (London); Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago); Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada (Las Vegas), and the David L. Lawrence Convention Center (Pittsburgh).
Moor’s recent solo exhibitions include, Undercover: Ayanah Moor at Manetti Shrem Museum of Art (Davis, California), Bless Your Heart at RUSCHMAN (Chicago, IL); I Wish I Could Be You More Often at Cleve Carney Museum of Art (Glen Ellyn, IL); and 4 Queens at Test Site Projects (Las Vegas, NV); and recent group shows: Exhibition X: An Utterly Incomplete Examination of Collage in Contemporary Art at The Carnegie, (Covington, KY); t/here or t/here at Intermission Museum of Art + Stand4 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); Direct Message: Art, Language and Power, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (IL); Echoes: Reframing Collage, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL);
Moor’s artwork is featured in Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere’s, Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, SPORTS (2017); and Nicole Fleetwood’s, Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011).