Lives and works in New York | alva.mooses@gmail.com
Education
2014 MFA Yale School of Art, Painting & Printmaking
2005 BFA The Cooper Union School of Art
Select Exhibitions
2023 Ceramics Now @ Greenwich House Pottery, NYC
2023 Groundwork @ Dreamsong, MN
2022 Ear to the Earth / Culebra Truena Tormenta @ Front Art Space, NYC.
2022 (Be) Longing @ TSA New York, curated by Eva Mayha Davis and Cecile Chong.
2021 Space Coiled Like A Serpent, curated by David Crane, LES Print Shop, NYC
2021 Sostalgia: Book Art and Climate Crisis, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, MN
2021 You Enter Dancing/ There’s Always Sign at The Clemente, NYC
2021 Shared View | traveling exhibition curated by Collective View, NYC
2020 Cito, Longe, Tarde, Haynes Project, Chicago, IL
2020 Touching Landscape, Tou Trykk, Stavanger, Norway
2020 From Orozco to Orozco at White Box Gallery Harlem, NYC
2019 Socrates Annual Fellowship, Queens, NY
2019 On the Shoulders of Giants, curated by Raul Zamudio & Jamie Martinez, The Border Project, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Buen Vivir/Vivir Bien curated by Tatiane Schilaro Santa Rosa, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
2018 Retrato de un Paisaje, Museo Eduardo Sívori, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018 Mira-Mirage, Luhovaný Vincent Festival, Luhačovice, Czech Republic
2018 A Day’s Dust, Studio 17, Stavanger, Norway
2018 Arte/facto at Profoundation, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Internalized Borders at John Jay College, NY
2017 Align in Distance, DĄĄB, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Grupo <11>, curated by Carolina Castro Jorquera at Instituto Cervantes, NYC
2016 Portrait of a Landscape, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NYC
2016 Artists Co-op III, Jamaica Center for the Arts, NYC
2016 Recent Works at Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
2016 Grupo < > at Cornell University Experimental Gallery, Ithaca, NY
2015 MX/NY Front Art Space, NYC
2014 Vulkansk/Volcánico at Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT
2014 Condensed Matter at Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2014 Social Paper at Columbia College CBPA, Chicago, IL
2013 Yale MFA show at Yale University Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012 Local Metrics curated by Hamza Walker and Theaster Gates at Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
2011 ArtQuake at Renaissance Art Gallery, Haiti Benefit, NYC
2009 The Casera Era, a collective art installation at the 10th Havana Biennial
Grants/Awards/Residencies
2023 Shandaken Residency Governors Island, NYC
2022 Greenwich House Pottery Residency, NYC
2021 Powerhouse Arts Printmaking Collaboration, NYC
2021 LMCC Creaative Engagement Grant for LAZO, NYC
2021 City Artist Corps Grant, NYC
2021 LES Keyholder Residency, NYC
2021 FCA Emergency Grant, NYC
2021 The Clemente Center residency for LAZO, NYC
2020 The Center for Book Arts, Book Artist Residency, NYC
2019 Artist-in-Residence at The Loisaida Center as part of LAZO, New York City
2019 Curatorial Grant for Whose Vestiges Subsist at The Clemente | LES Gallery, New York City
2018 Smack Mellon Hot Picks, New York City
2018 Artist-in-Residence two weeks at MAG, Saltillo, Mexico
2018 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant for Mira-Mirage installation in the Czech Republic
2015 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Artist Community Engagement Grant
2015 Artist-in-Residence at Davidoff Arts Initiative in Altos de Chavón
2014 Directed Independent Language Study at Yale University (Norwegian)
2013 Printmaking Residency at Grafisk Verksted in Stavanger, Norway
2013 Schoelkopf Traveling Prize: Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway
2012 Columbia College Book and Paper Summer Residency
2012 UChicago Arts Grant for Proximal Distance
2011 Artist-in-Residence at The University of Chicago APL
2009 Invitation by Cuban Minister of Culture to 10th Havana Biennial
2005 Hans G. and Thordis W. Burckhardt Foundation Prize
2000 Four-Year Full Tuition Scholarship to The Cooper Union
Collections
Yale University Art Gallery Print and Drawing Collection
Rutgers Print Collection
Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts
Curatorial/Collective Practice
2018-present co-founder of LAZO
2015-2017 Founding member of collective Grupo < > in NYC
2011-2012 Founder of Storefront Studio, Chicago, IL
An experimental art space in Pilsen hosting art series Proximal Distance.
2004-2009 Co-organized community art projects and informal artist residencies in Latin America. Organized and conducted relief printmaking workshops in La Barra de Potosí Mexico, El Polvo, El Salvador, Buratovich, Argentina and in Bonoa, Dominican Republic.
Artist Talks/Readings
2017 Transcultural Fashion, Design & Literature at SAIC, Chicago
2017 In Various Tongues at Pioneer Books, NYC
2017 Second Sundays Clocktower Radio, NYC
2016 Cornell AAP NYC
2016 Atelier ‘89 in Oranjestad, Aruba
2016 Milstein Hall at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2015 Arts Letters & Numbers, Averill Park, NY
2015 Swiss Institute, NYC
2015 La Escuela de Diseño, Altos de Chavón, La Romana, D.R.
2014 Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
2014 Parsons The New School for Design, NYC
2013 Critical Practice at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012 Local Metrics at Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL
Associate Professor of Art at Hunter College.