Alva Mooses
Alva Mooses studied at The Cooper Union (BFA, 2005) and at Yale University School of Art (MFA, 2014). She has exhibited her work internationally and most recently presented her work in an artist talk at the Swiss Institute in NYC. She received a Yale University Robert Schoelkopf Prize for her fieldwork in Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation ACE Grant for the collaborative publication, Correspondence from NYC to PAP. She has completed artist residencies at The University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life Program, Columbia College’s Center for Book and Paper Arts, the Grafisk Verksted in Stavanger, Norway and the Davidoff Art Initiative in the Dominican Republic. She has taught bookbinding at The Cooper Union and is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Art Department at Cornell University. She lives in New York City.
My work examines relationships between objects, people, and geographic terrain as a means to explore cultural understanding and political structures. My studio practice is informed by nearly a decade of organizing community art initiatives and informal residencies situated in unused spaces in Latin America. These projects created a platform for over forty New York City-based artists to make their work, collaborate and teach art in new contexts.
Visiting artist at Arts Letters & Numbers 2015.
Website:
http://alvamooses.com/