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Overview
San Francisco, EEUU, 1974
MOMO is an American artist who began his experimental outdoor work in the late 90s, working with homemade tools and borrowed public space. Ten years of free ranging projects, centered around adapted masonry techniques, strategies based on collage, computer code, and seriality, came to form the basis of his visual language.
This language finds it's expression in paint, on commissioned walls and studio work from 2009 to the present day. Notable mural commissions include those from Facebook, Pepsi, the NFL, the World Trade Center, John Hancock Tower, Art Production Fund NY, European Capital of Culture, the NYC DOT, and Yohji Yamamoto's Y-3. However, self organized walls in Jamaica, Sicily, and Arizona (2013, 2016, 2018), painted at the artists expense, have been important in demonstrating innovative techniques for a general audience free of the usual commercial concerns.
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WorksBiography
SOLO EXHIBITIONS | EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES (SELECTION)
2023. Body Rythms, Gallery Slika, Lyon, France
2023. Anything Spossible, Studio Cromie, Grottaglie, Italy
2021. Foley Dancer, Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020. Parting Line, Hangar 107, Rouen, France2019. Double half, Delimbo Gallery. Madrid, Spain
2017. Wilderness, Delimbo Gallery, Sevilla, Spain
2017. Best Picture, Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014. There Are No Wheels in Nature, Winterlong Gallery, Niort, France
2013. Darmon 2, Studio Cromie, Grottaglie, Italy,
2013. Butt Joints, May Gallery and Residency, New Orleans, Louisiana
2013. Darmon, Grottaglie, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS (SELECTION)
2017. Machine Show, Library Street Collective, Detroit
2016. City Lights, MIMA Museum, Brussels, Belgium
2014. Just Before Brazil, Alice Gallery, Brussels
2013. Hecho en Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
2010. Artscapes, Scion Installation Space, Los Angeles
2010. Nova, Museu da Imagem e do Som São Paulo, Brazil
2010. Post-Graffiti, Geometry, and Abstraction. Fundación Caixa Galicia, LaCoruna, Spain
2009. NY Fashion Week Show (68'x82′ Runway and Clothing) Pier 40 New York
2008. PLAF (Collaboration with Eltono) Anonymous Gallery, New York NY
2008. MMMB (Collaboration with Melissa Brown) Espeis Archetype Gallery Williamsburg NY
2006. 11 Spring Street New York NY
2006. City of Sydney mural commision Sydney, Australia
LECTURES
Summer Education Program
Open Source
Philadelphia Mural Arts 2016
muralarts.org/opensource
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana 2013
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana 2013
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland 2012
University of Maryland
Maryland, Baltimore 2011
Incubate DIY Conference Tilburg, Holland 2011
incubate.nl
COMISSIONS
15 Story Smokestack Mural, Former Princess Maragret Hospital Site, City of Perth, Australia
2 Story Mural
Hudson River Trading
4 World Trade Center NYC 2020
4 Story Mural
Musee des Beaux Arts
Nancy, France 2019
Single Story Mural
Rose Beton / Les Abattoirs Museum
Toulouse, France 2019
6 Story Mural
Ogden Museum
New Orleans 20193 Story Mural
Yuma Arts Center, Yuma, Arizona 2018
3 Sided 5 story Mural
Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Australia 2018
Single Story Mural
Rooftop Courtyard
Facebook New York 2017
Single Story Mural
Facebook Headquarters California 2017
Lobby Mural
Mercedes House NYC 2017
PRODUCT PACKAGE DESIGN/ CAMPAIGN
Life Water 2017-2018
5 Story Vinyl Mural
8th Ave & 34th St, NYC
Art Production Fund, NYC 2015
2 Story Mural
Hudson River Trading Headquarters
4 World Trade Center NYC 2017
Stadium Entrance Mural
Miami Dolphins Miami 2016
23 story mural
Philadelphia Mural Arts 2016
Single Story Mural
Ace Hotel Palm Springs, California 2015
Lobby Mural
John Hancock Tower Boston 2015
2 - 5 Story Murals
Milestone Project Girona, Spain 2013, 2012
Single Story Mural
Wynwood Walls (Art Basel) Miami, Florida 2012
Murals & Installations
Bien Urbain Besançon, France 2012, 2013
Murals
Fame Grottaglie, Italy 2010, 2011, 2012
3 Story Mural
Outdoor Rome 2012
4 Story Mural
Open Walls Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland 2012
4 Story Mural
Incubate Tilburg, Holland 2011
Murals and Installations
Outomatic Leuven, Belgium 2011
Exhibitions-
Polygonal Lasso
MOMO & Jeroen Erosie | Delimbo Sevilla 22 Feb - 7 May 2021Polygonal Lasso, New works by Jeroen Erosie and Momo, Delimbo sevillaRead more -
Double Half
MOMO | Delimbo Madrid 2 Feb - 30 Mar 2019Delimbo Madrid. MOMORead more -
Opening Gallery Madrid
Momo, Okuda San Miguel, Sixe Paredes & Felipe Pantone | Delimbo Madrid 4 Nov 2017 - 30 Jan 2018Sixe ParedeS Barcelona, 1975 Sixe Paredes, Also known as Sixe or Sixeart started his artistic career in the graffiti world of Barcelona in the late 80s. In the mid 90s...Read more -
Wilderness
MOMO | Delimbo Sevilla 9 Mar - 30 May 2017'Wilderness' is a new exhibition by renowned artist MOMO . Born in San Francisco in 1974, MOMO is an artist that works in public spaces with homemade tools . His...Read more