David Moos

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David Moos is the the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Moos received a doctorate in art history from Columbia University and is a contributing editor to Art Papers and Art US.

Moos served as curator of contemporary art at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama. In this position, he organized traveling the exhibitions, Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, William Wegman: Fashion Photographs, and Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City.

Moos also curated an on-going exhibition called Galore: The Continuous Painting Wall. Artists participating in this exhibit included Jon Coffelt, Lydia Dona, Dennis Hollingsworth, Ingo Meller, Thomas Nozkowski, and Leslie Wayne. Moos also recently curated an exhibition of Andy Warhol's audio and Andy Warhol/Supernova: Stars, Deaths and Disasters, 1962–1964. Moos is married to Julie Moos, Canadian photographer and art writer.

Moos has worked with many artists including Willie Cole, Jessica Diamond, Moira Dryer, Lonnie Holley, Luis Jimenez, Beatriz Milhazes, Samuel Mockbee, Orlan, Tony Scherman and Lawrence Weiner.

[edit] Recent work

Moos most recently curated the exhibition "The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art," (1950-2005) for Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada.

[edit] Books

"The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Color Field Art," (1950-2005) David Moos (Editor), Catherine van Baren (Editor), Mark Cheetham, 10/25/2005 Art Gallery of Ontario ISBN 1-894243-45-5
"SUPERNOVA: Stars, Deaths And Disasters," (1962-1964) Douglas Fogle, Francesco Bonami, David Moos, Andy Warhol, 10/31/2005 Walker Art Center ISBN 0-935640-83-5
"Do We Think Too Much?: I Don't Think We Can Ever Stop" Lonnie Holley, Michael Stanley (Editor), David Moos (Editor), 08/15/2004 Birmingham Museum of Art ISBN 0-907594-97-2
"Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture" Samuel Mockbee, David Moos (Editor), Gail Trechsel (Editor) 11/01/2003 Birmingham Museum of Art ISBN 0-931394-52-X
Moos was the editor for "Painting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence," a special issue of Art & Design.
"Forces of the 50's: Selctions from the Albright Knox" by Donna De Salvo and David Moos, Wexner Center (1997) ISBN 1-881390-14-4
"Kazimir Malevich" by Rainer Crone and David Moos, (1991) ISBN 0-948462-21-3
"Kazimir Malevich: The Climax of Disclosure" by Rainer Crone and David Moos, University of Chicago Press (1991) ISBN 0-226-12093-7
"Postmark : An Abstract Effect" by Louis Grachos, Bruce W. Ferguson, David Moos, and David Pagel, SITE Santa Fe (1999) ISBN 0-9650583-6-0
"Painting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by David Moos, Academy Editions (UK) (1996) ISBN 1-85490-232-6
"Sigmar Polke" by David Moos (2004) ISBN 89-954651-6-6
"Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity : Paintings from the 1990s" by David Moos, Jonathan Lasker, and Michael Auping, Birmingham Museum of Art (1999) ISBN 0-931394-44-9
"Philip Akkeman - The Mirrors Secret" by David Moos and Jan van Adrichem, Stroom The Hague's Center for Visual Arts (1999) ISBN 90-73799-31-7
"Telling the Tales of Painting" by Jonathan Lasker, David Moos, and Rainer Crone, Edition Cantz (1994) ISBN 3-89322-564-1
"Sorel Etrog: Human Traces" by David Moos and Sorel Etrog, Mosaic Press (1998) ISBN 0-88962-587-5