About

Maurice Moore, Ph.D. is an artist, performer, and scholar whose interdisciplinary practice moves across drawing, performance, visual poetry, and sound. Grounded in Black and nonbinary ways of knowing, Moore’s work explores mark-making as embodied research, using euphoria, dysphoria, and numbphoria as critical strategies. Their practice—often articulated through the ongoing project Drawing While Black—treats drawing as a performative, relational act that collapses boundaries between studio, stage, and classroom.

Moore is the author of Drawing While Black Mixtape Vol. 1 (Versal Journal, 2022), winner of the Amsterdam Open Book Prize, a book of visual poems investigating queer mark-making as a site of resistance and possibility. Since 2011, Moore’s work has been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally at venues including the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) in London, UK; Calabar Gallery in New York, NY; the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC; the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, CA; the Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, NC; Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Asheville, NC; and the Modern Art Museum Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, Korea.