Bio/Resume

Moore creates multi-media art that reflects her interests in human-animal relationships, the art-science dialogue and the joy of collecting disparate objects from nature and culture.

She received a BFA from Syracuse University School of Art and has taken many continuing education courses in various media. She was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sanandaj, Iran (Kurdistan) in the late 1960’s. On returning to the United States, Moore and her husband settled in western Maine on a large farm where she began her artistic career, making and selling unique puppets and soft sculpture at New England craft fairs.  She was also involved in farming, raising sheep, goats, chickens, and pigs as part of a sustainable lifestyle.

In the late 70’s Moore and her family relocated to coastal Maine and the path of her artwork took new turns as she developed her ideas based on her interests in human-animal relationships. During this period of development and exploration of media, Moore had a full calendar of exhibiting her work at commercial galleries, alternative spaces and museums. In 1989 she was awarded a one-person exhibit at The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine.

Maine Grants

National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship, Drawing and Artists Books, granted by New England Foundation for the Arts;

New Forms Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation;

Awards in the Visual Arts, SECCA Regional Nominee. Toying in the Woods, multi-media performance funded by Maine Arts Inc., Portland, ME;

MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH;

Fusion-Fission Grant. Real Art Ways; Hartford, CT. Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.

In 1993 Moore relocated once again, this time from Maine to Texas. She first resided in Houston where she kept a large studio in a downtown factory-loft building. In 1997, she moved to Austin where she exhibited her work in alternative spaces, commercial galleries and museums.

Notable Exhibits

1999, Categories, Collections, and A Cabinet of Wonder, Women and Their Work Gallery . Review: van Ryzin, Jeanne Claire. “Collected Works”, in Austin American Statesman, XL, (21 October), pp. 51;
2001, Three Suites and foundations, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX;
Small Worlds: Game Boards, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX;
2002, Circus/Circus,  Galveston Arts Center; Galveston, TX;
2003, Collected Response, Marjorie Moore and Steve Wiman, O2 Gallery, Flatbed Press,Austin, TX;
Review: Irvine, Madeline Gathered Treasures, Collected Response is an extension of two artists shared passion for collecting” in the Austin Chronicle, Feb 13, 2004, pp 39
Review: Irvine, Madeline Marjorie Moore and Steve Wiman: Collected Response, in Artlies 42, Spring 2004. Pp.72,73
2008, Remains, D Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas Review: Faires, Robert “Marjorie Moore: Remains” in The Austin Chronicle, January 9, 2009;
2009, Labyrinth, Categories under Construction, Texas State University Art Gallery, San Marcos, TX, September 22-October 22, 2009. Film documenting this installation exhibit can be viewed at www.marjoriemoore.com
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waw4qFHnpoY
2014, Eclosion, Art of Insects  ArtScience Gallery, Austin, Texas;
2017, Eternal Spring, The Long Center for the Arts, Austin, Texas.

Texas Grants

Earthwatch Artists Fellowship, Red Howler Monkey Project; Calabozo, Venezuela;

Houston Area Cultural Association, Individual Artist Award; painting

Finalist, Art Pace Texas Artists, San Antonio, TX;

2010, Finalist, Texas Art Prize Arthouse, Austin, TX;

2012, Sanskriti Foundation Fellowship, New Delhi, India;

In the summer of 2017, Moore returned to Maine as a full-time resident. She now resides on Great Diamond Island near Portland, Maine. She maintains two studios, one at home on the island and the other at Running with Scissors Studio in Portland, Maine. She continues to explore media and is heavily influenced by the natural surroundings of the island. She continues to exhibit her work.

Recent Maine Exhibits

2018, Flux and Form, Marjorie Moore and Mary Hart PhoPa Gallery, Portland, Maine;

2019, Global Warnings, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland, Maine;

 2019, Recent Work  Cynthia Winings Gallery Blue Hill, Maine;

2020, Seaweed Sensibilities, The George Marshall Gallery in York, Maine. 

Moore has had a full teaching career in both Maine and Texas. In Maine she taught workshops in public schools, and at programs for the handicapped and in prisons. In Texas she taught at The Houston Zoo and The High School for Visual and Performing Arts. In Austin she taught at The Austin Museum School at Laguna Gloria, The Lady Bird Wildflower Center, and was adjunct at The University of Texas School of Art, Austin, Texas.

Collections

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine;

Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, Maine;

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University;

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine;

Art Museum of South Texas, affiliated with Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas;

Texas State University Art Galleries, San Marcos, Texas;

Austin Museum of Art (collection now maintained by The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin.