New Gantt Center exhibit in Charlotte Spotlights homeownership and the Black community

May 01, 2026 / Mario Moore

Flames rise from the bottom corner of an official document, as the charred page begins to curl. Three people, each with a few fingers pinching opposite corners, wait for the fire to turn the paper to ash. The painting, “Mortgage Burning” by Detroit artist Mario Moore, is one of 14 works in the latest exhibition at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Art + Culture, “In Pursuit of Home.”

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Two New Exhibitions at Cranbrook Art Museum Highlight Detroit Artists

November 20, 2023 / Mario Moore

Not every show that opens at the Cranbrook Art Museum unfolds like a modern mystery and highlights a budding star of the next generation of Detroit artists — but maybe all the great ones do.

Two exhibitions kicking off the Cranbrook Art Museum’s fall season aim to cement the reputations of the contemporary artists defining the city today and to showcase the groundbreaking artist whose influence on those very painters goes largely unappreciated, locally and beyond. Both shows, Skilled Labor: Black Realism in Detroit and LeRoy Foster: Solo Show, open on Oct. 28.

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Mario Moore Detroit Underground Railroad History

December 02, 2022 / Mario Moore

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Shattered Glass: An Exhibition of 40 Artists of Color Ushers in a New Era of Inclusivity at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles

June 12, 2021 / Mario Moore

“A fourth through line connects artists who reverse the white male gaze, building on feminist critiques. Mario Moore’s grand portraits honor black people in the way that powerful white men have been immortalized by portraits for centuries. His maste… — “A fourth through line connects artists who reverse the white male gaze, building on feminist critiques. Mario Moore’s grand portraits honor black people in the way that powerful white men have been immortalized by portraits for centuries. His masterful *Standing in the Roaring 20’s* effectively uses spatial dynamics to present an impeccably dressed black man in a blue coat with satin lining and a blue fedora; this man’s determined gaze is focused on the viewer as he weathers a storm and prevails through the looming terrors in the distance behind him.”
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CNN Mario Moore

November 02, 2020 / Mario Moore

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Portraits on university campuses usually portray school founders, presidents and donors.

But at Princeton University, portraits of blue-collar campus workers are now taking center stage. A new set of paintings are offering a fresh perspective on the working class, racial struggle and empowerment at the Ivy league school.

Mario Moore, the artist behind the paintings, views his artwork as more than just decoration. By showcasing the university's workers, he wants to pay tribute to them and "put them in positions of power," he told CNN.

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RECOVERY, E-Catalogue

July 17, 2018 / Mario Moore / Source

A Student’s Dream

by Wayne Northcross

In contemporary art, portraits of black men by black artists are rare, their inner lives hidden, their subjectivity overshadowed by the realities of race in America. A few notable exhibitions have changed that. In 1994, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Thelma Golden curated Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. This explosive exhibition explored the social and cultural history of the black male body in contemporary art and media after the Civil Rights era. Since that time, artists like Lorna Simpson, Barkley Hendricks, and Glenn Ligon have opened up the idea of blackness or black identity, exposing the viewer and the public to a black body contextualized not only by race and history but also by sexuality, gender and class.

Mario Moore is an heir to the legacy of Black Male, and one of its most dynamic, young standard-bearers. With a painting practice based in figurative realism, Moore teases out complex and psychological transactions between himself in the positions of artist, subject and viewer through contemporary interpretations of black male identity and the history of Western painting. His new exhibition, Recovery, at the David Klein Gallery in Detroit, explores the idea of the black male body at rest.

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June 25, 2018 / Mario Moore / Source

Rising painter Mario Moore’s latest solo exhibition, “Recovery”, is a thought-provoking study of an emotional walkthrough of his recent journey back to health after undergoing an awake neurological surgery. Taking place in the artist’s hometown of Detroit, at David Klein Gallery on June 30, the stirring show features works of silverpoint drawings, large-scale oil paintings on canvas and copper, and video to explore themes surrounding the treatment of black male bodies in America, in art and medicine.

Princeton Hodder Fellowship 2018-2019

January 24, 2018 / Mario Moore

Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton announces five Hodder Fellows for 2018-2019DECEMBER 14, 2017Fellowships are awarded to Martyna Majok, Mario Moore, Okwui Okpokwasili, Jacob Shores-Argüello, and Lauren YeeThe Lewis Center for the Arts at Prince… — Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton announces five Hodder Fellows for 2018-2019
DECEMBER 14, 2017
Fellowships are awarded to Martyna Majok, Mario Moore, Okwui Okpokwasili, Jacob Shores-Argüello, and Lauren Yee
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University has announced the selection of five Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellows for the 2018-2019 academic year. Martyna Majok, Mario Moore, Okwui Okpokwasili, Jacob Shores-Argüello, and Lauren Yee are this year’s recipients of the Hodder Fellowship, created to provide artists and humanists in the early stages of their careers an opportunity to undertake significant new work.
In making the announcement, Michael Cadden, chair of the Lewis Center, said, “Mrs. Hodder recognized the need for what she called ‘studious leisure’ to give people the time they need to tackle major projects. Her model was John Milton’s father, who underwrote the research necessary to the creation of *Paradise Lost*. In the University’s role as a patron of the arts, we’re happy to welcome these five talented artists to the Princeton community.”
Hodder Fellows may be writers, composers, choreographers, visual artists, performance artists, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have, as the program outlines, “much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts.” Artists from anywhere may apply in the early fall each year for the following academic year. Past Hodder Fellows have included poet Michael Dickman, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, playwright Will Eno, choreographer Nora Chipamurie, and composer and lyricist Michael Friedman.

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Five Can't miss pieces in new DIA exhibition by Detroit Free Press

August 03, 2017 / Mario Moore

I am really honored to have my work along with this piece above by Romare Bearden included in this list. Check it out. freep.com

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My grandmother featured in Toledo Blade newspaper

August 03, 2017 / Mario Moore

Check out this article from the recent exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Super excited to have my work in this museum.

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Artist Mario Moore highlights social justice in art

May 25, 2017 / Mario Moore

Mario Moore (Photo credit: Danielle Lyle)

Detroit native Mario Moore’s “US IS THEM” exhibit at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is “challenging attendees’ perceptions on subjects surrounding politics, religion and racism, while simultaneously telling stories through traditional and non-traditional art platforms.”

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