Moses E Hoskins was born in 1953 in Iowa where he spent his youth and some time as an adult. He was educated in public schools and attended a few colleges in the Midwest before earning a BFA from the University of Iowa School of Art and Art History. As a visual fine artist, his roots were in figurative rendering but he has worked abstractly since the mid 80’s, working and residing in New York City since 1988.
Solo Exhibitions
2017 CBSRZ Main Street Gallery, Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek - Chester, CT
2016 Book of Debris / 57W57Arts - New York
2013,'11,'09,'06,'00 OK Harris Works of Art - New York (OK Harris closed in Spring 2014 after 45 years)
2011 work on canvas / Gillette Gallery at the Garrison Art Center in Garrison, NY
Saint Anthony Chaplet; collages / Trinity Wall Street Visual Arts - New York
2008 Studio B Gallery - Nashville, TN
2007 Lobby Series #9 Roger Smith Hotel - New York
2007,'06 Karin Sanders Fine Art - Sag Harbor, NY
2003 Epiphany 2003 Saint James’ Church (Madison Avenue) - New York
2002 Thai Café - Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Durst Organization / Show Walls - New York
1998 Fleming Gallery, Tasis England American School - Surrey, England
1997 Saint Clement's Church (W. 46th) - New York
1991 Saint Peter's Church Narthex (E. 54th) - New York
1990 Speed Limit 55 (W.23rd) - New York
1989,'88 Lawrence Gallery (private) - Paris
1988 Saks Fifth Avenue, Chicago
1987 Mount Saint Clare College - Clinton, Iowa
1985 Iowa Wesleyan College - Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Clinton Art Association - Clinton, Iowa
Group Exhibitions
2026 Open Book(s): Observations / curated by Joe Arnheim, Pierogi / hosted by Monira Fndt'n - Mana Contemporary - Jersey City
2025 Small Paintings & Sculptures, Summer Group Show / 57w57arts, New York
2023 Altered Logistics: Contemporary Collage & Appropriation Art / Dowd Gallery SUNY - Cortland, NY
2021 Drawing Challenge XVII, XX, XXII {on-line jurored exhibition series during Covid) Jason McCoy Gallery - New York
2020 Drawing Challenge II, VI, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIV, XV / Jason McCoy Gallery - New York
Six Perspectives / Plaxall Gallery - Long Island City
2019 Unextinguished / the Episodic Landscape, SRO Gallery - Brooklyn
2018 Photo-a-Go-Go, curated by D.Dominick Lombardi, SRO Gallery - Brooklyn
Where to Draw the Line, D.Dominick Lombardi curator, Walter Wickiser Gallery - New York
Sideshow Nation VI -Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2017 Thru the Rabbit Hole 2 / Sideshow Nation V - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2016 Summer Reading, Fortnight Institute – New York
Through the Veil of the Soul, D.Dominick Lombardi curator, Galerie Protégé – New York
2014 A Tangled Web We Weave, D.Dominick Lombardi curator, Causey Contemporary - New York
2012 Art on Paper, Art & Design Gallery at Andrews University - Berrien Springs, MI
Soul Seekers; Interpreting the Icon, Trinity Church Museum, Wall Street - New York
Random Art I, Ursa Major Gallery - Shelburne Falls, MA
2010 Summer Group Exhibition, OK Harris Works of Art - New York
Art in Embassies Program / US Embassy at Tunis - US Department of State
2009 Summer Group Exhibition, OK Harris Works of Art - New York
2008 Collaborative Concepts at the Hat Factory in Peekskill, NY
Small Work (31st annual), 80 Washington Square Galleries - New York
2007 New York to New Hampshire: Artists of the OK Harris Gallery, New England College Gallery in Henniker, NH
Summer Invitational Exhibition / OK Harris Works of Art - New York
A Variety of Gifts / Trinity Museum in Trinity Church, Wall Street - New York
2006 Gallery Retrospective / Karin Sanders Fine Art - Sag Harbor, NY
Best of the Lab / Yellow Bird Gallery - Newburgh, NY
2005 The Vision Glorious / General Theological Seminary - New York
2004 New York Painters ’04, Susan Cross curator, Barrett Art Center - Poughkeepsie, NY
2004 Duality/ Multiplicity / The Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel - New York
2002 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition / The Drawing Center - New York
Art in Embassies Program / U.S. Embassy -San Jose, Costa Rica - U.S. Department of State
Assemblages / Thai Café - Greenpoint/Brooklyn, NY
2001 12 Views / The Drawing Center -New York
Inaugural Invitational Exhibition / Collaborative Concepts - Beacon, NY
2000 Art Exhibition Program / Doral Bank - New York
1998 Obsession Food / Pelham Arts Center - Pelham, NY
1997 New American Painting , juried exhibitions in print (Northeast,#10) Open Studio Press
Verge / Chi Meat Gallery - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Champions of Modernism; the Art of Tomorrow, the Art of Today:
Polk Museum of Art - Lakeland, Fla.
Brevard Museum of Art and Science - Melbourne, Fla.
Sunrise Museum - Charleston, W.V.
Gibbes Museum of Art - Charleston, S.C.
1996 Mary Washington College Galleries - Fredericksburg, Va.
Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle - New Rochelle, NY
1995 The Illustrated Book / Center for Book Arts - New York
1992 Paper Houses / David Beitzel Gallery - New York
167th Annual Exhibition / National Academy of Design - New York
1991 Invitational / OK Harris Works of Art - New York
1990 Vent Contemporain / Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Hotel Drouot Richelieu - Paris
1987 Annual Iowa Artists Exhibition / Des Moines Art Center - Des Moines
& other group shows in Iowa & Illinois ('85-'87) before fleeing to NYC in '88
Grants & Residencies
2017,’06 & ’91 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2013,'10 & '06 The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation / individual support grant(s)
2010 Yaddo -Saratoga, NY
1998 visiting artist / TASIS England American School -Thorpe, Surrey, England
Reviews or Catalogues
Huffington Post, 12/29/15 The Real Deal (D.Dominick Lombardy)
The East Hampton Star, 5/1/07 (Jennifer Landes)
4/19/07 (Elizabeth Fasolino)
The Southampton Press, 4/12/07 (Eric Ernst)
The New York Observer, 10/15/01 (Mario Naves)
Scott Speh’s HOT COMMODITIES, Issue 9 2001
The Drawing Center's Drawing Papers, #22, Sept-Oct, 2001
Waterfront Week, Volume 7.6, March 27- April 9, 1997
New York Times, 4/22/01 (Dominick Lombardi)
2/18/96 (Vivian Raynor)
Champions of Modernism, Non-Objective Art of the 1930’s and 40’s and its Legacy, Portico New York, Inc., c1996
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Note: Most work from mid 70’s to mid 80’s consisted of private portrait commissions. Until about 31, Hoskins worked mainly as a portrait painter. He had learned proper painting technique and had a natural facility for drawing and capturing a likeness.
Most of his work consisted of privately commissioned oil-on-canvas portraits. Except for charcoal drawings at art fairs, usually subjects did not sit but were rendered from his own snapshots. - Even then he was aware of the potential for aesthetic shortcomings in "slavish copies" and did try to get past that. - Midway in this expanse Hoskins found himself in school again, this time in Iowa City at the University of Iowa. He recalls meditations alone in the presence of the University's famous Pollock Mural, 'pondering' for what it was he should be doing. After his degree work was finished in '81, Hoskins intermittently painted portraits as before. It would be a few years yet, around '86, when he would begin working abstractly.