b. Anaheim, CA
AWARDS
Honors
2023 40 Under 40, Pittsburgh Magazine
2023 40 Under 40, Charlotte Business Journal
2021 Leading Voice in Public Art by Forward, Forecast Public Art
2019
BOB Best of Charlotte Awards, “The Roll Up CLT: Best Residency”
Scoop Charlotte, “Charlotte Women to Watch in 2019”
YWCA Women of Achievement, "Emerging Leader"
2017
Best of Charlotte Award, Lecture Series [ Sphere Series]
Charlotte Agenda, “15 Women to know in the Charlotte Arts”
Arts & Science Council, Leadership Charlotte
>2015
2015 Hostelling Intl. "Brothers + Sisters", Martin Luther King Jr. Mural, 3rd Place
2014 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dean"s Scholarship
2014 Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists Residency, Scholarship Grant
2013 Creative Loafing, Art Achievement Award
2010 Beam Project, "A Trip to the Sun", Seattle Children"s Film Festival
2009 Carnegie Mellon University, Dean's List
2009 Carnegie Mellon University, Academic Achievement
2005 International Baccalaureate [IB] Diploma, Myers Park High School
Grant Awards
2023
Women of Visions Emerging Opportunity Grant (WEOG)
The Pittsburgh Cultural Treasures Initiative (PCTI) -The Heinz Endowments, the POISE Foundation, Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise (PACE), and the Ford Foundation
2022
Black Art Futures Fund Grant
Arts & Science Council, Cultural Vision Grant (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
2021
The Pittsburgh Foundation + The Heinz Endowment, Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh
McKnight Foundation, Artists Residencies Consortium
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., Life Membership Foundation
Office of Public Art, Artist Bridging Social Distance
Neighborhood Allies, Rise High Fund
2020
The Pittsburgh Foundation, Investing in Professional Artists
The Opportunity Fund, The Arts, and Social & Economic Justice
Heinz Endowment, Just Arts (19, 20)
HUG Grant #CharlotteisCreative (20, 18)
Foundation For The Carolinas, Reemprise (19, 20)
2019
Common Field Convening Grant Award
2018
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Charlotte Arts
2017
United Way of Central Carolinas, Social Justice Residency
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2021 the Black box test, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 Raise Free Black Children, Save Art Space Public Art Billboard, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 Bloom Where You’re Planted, Southend Bloom Festival Charlotte, NC
2016 Reading the Black Library [Performance], Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL
2013 CLOCK OUT, Eccentric Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2012 The Process Series, Social Status, Charlotte, NC
2011 This Could Be Revisited, Studio K, Charlotte, NC
2009 Everything, All at Once, Carnegie Mellon University, The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2007 Success, Carnegie Mellon University, Jon Rubin’s Tent Show Southside, Pittsburgh, PA
Select Exhibitions
2022
Vernacular À la Mode, PRIZM Art Fair at Miami Basel Art Week, Miami, FL
Terms of Service, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
Future Visions, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Progeny of Change, Brew House Association, Pittsburgh, PA
2021
Art as Liberation, 1HOOD, City of Asylum, Larry Ossei-Mensah and Mikael Owunna, Pittsburgh, PA
Anthropology of Motherhood, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
May/Be/MAD: art exploring radical mental health, FolkLAB, Virtual Exhibition
2020
Anthropology of Motherhood, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA
Gift, Panza Gallery, Millvale, PA
We Out Here, Denison University, Denison, OH
2018
Up like a sun, down like a pancake, Institute for Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD (Work Acquired)
2017
CLT Art Drop, The Spoke Easy, Charlotte, NC
2016
Facets, Gallery 22, Charlotte, NC
Artistic Protest, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), Charlotte, NC (Work Acquired)
Art United for Reproductive Justice, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
Killa Cam, Social Status, Charlotte, NC
Unibrow, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
Let The Good Times Roll, Gallery 22, Charlotte, NC
2015
COLLABOBO “Graduation” [Performance with artist Brian T. Leahy], Chicago, IL
COLLABOBO "8478990810" [Performance with artist Brian T. Leahy], Chicago, IL
COLLABOBO “Notes” [Performance with artist Brian T. Leahy], Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL (Work Acquired)
COLLABOBO “Failure”, [Performance with artist Brian T. Leahy], Above the Frame Shop, Chicago, IL
12x12, Dick Blick, Chicago, IL
2013
Let The Good Times Roll, Gallery 22, Charlotte, NC
Uniquability, Red Sky Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2012
Has Beens, Studio K, Charlotte, NC
Art for Autism, Village @ SouthPark, Charlotte, NC
Inspired, Tyler White Gallery, Greensboro, NC
2010
Commissioned work for Ted X Talk, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Art Bash, Mr. Smalls Fun House, Millvale, PA
2009
Mapping Braddock, UnSmoke Systems, Braddock, PA
From the Vault, Carnegie Mellon University, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
>2008
2007 Printstallation, Carnegie Mellon University, The Frame Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2006 Hung Up, PNC Park Stadium Jumbotron, Pittsburgh, PA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Select Exhibitions
2023 Open Ashram: Collectively Conjuring, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna, FL
2023 The Vault: Exhibiting the private collections of Black collectors,, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
2022
TEMPLE, PRIZM Art Fair at Miami Basel Art Week, Miami FL
SHRINE, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
SANCTUARY, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
ALTAR, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2021
A Call to Create II (20, 21), Co-curator, BOOM Festival, Charlotte, NC
Sibyls Shrine: Taking Care, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
2019
Sisters with Stories, Hodges Taylor Fine Art & Consulting, Charlotte, NC
Promoting Peace, Arts Empowerment Project & The University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC) Center City, Charlotte, NC
cutXcopy, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Southern Constellations, NC A&T University, Greensboro, NC
BOOM BOX SHOW, BOOM Festival, Charlotte, NC
2018
Convergence, NC A&T Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
STREET SPACE, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
BLACK BLOODED, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Art X Law: Sherrill Roland, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Black Law Student Association, Pittsburgh, PA
La Raza Cosmica, BOOM Festival, Charlotte, NC
Stimulus Series: Fantasy, Balance and Black Blooded, McColl Center for Art Innovation, Charlotte, NC
2017
mood: B L A C K, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC
PINK PARTY: Queen Bee, Co-curator, Social Status,Charlotte, NC
Chris Watts: Blahk on Blahk on Blak, Gallery 22, Charlotte, NC
BOOM, Gallery 22, Charlotte, NC
the hue + shade lounge, BOOM Festival, Charlotte, NC
2015
Hip Hop Is… : A film by Caleb Davis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Intention to Know, Mediator, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL
2014
Monster Roster, Research Assistant, The University of Chicago, Smart Museum, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Attachments: Graduate Student Design Show, Curatorial Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
> 2013 Student Union Galleries: SUGS+ Projects, Co-Curator, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012 Patterns of Chaos, Studio K Gallery, Charlotte, NC
SPEAKING + PRESENTATIONS
Conferences
2022
"Black Arts Funding Summit", Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, [Virtual]
2021
“Building Wealth and Reparations for Artists”, Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, [Virtual]
“Uncomfortable Truth and Re-imagining and Rebuilding with Purpose”, Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, [Virtual]
“Sibyls Shrine: an arts residency for Black mothers”, Common Field Convening, [Virtual]
“Residency Practitioner Series”, Artist Communities Alliance, Emerging Residency Institute, [Virtual]
2020
“Trust Black Women”, Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, [Virtual]
“How Black Female Arts and Cultural Leaders are Reshaping the Field”, Upswell Conference, [Virtual]
“Black Autonomous Spaces”, Common Field Convening, [Covid-19 rescheduled]
“Black Autonomous Spaces”, Allied Media Conference, [Covid-19 rescheduled]
2019
“Public Spaces Forum”, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
“Nina Simone Childhood Home”, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Tryon, NC
“The Future of Museums”, Common Field Convening, Philadelphia, PA
Keynote Speaker, “When Art + Activism Collide”, Charlotte SHOUT Festival, Charlotte, NC
>2018
2017 “Arts & Culture”, How Can I Be Down Entertainment Conference, Charlotte, NC
2012 Keynote Speaker, National Art Honors Society, Myers Park High School, National Art Honors Society, Charlotte, NC
Lectures
2022
“Artist Entrepreneur Incubator” Artist Spaces and Spaces for Artists”, South Carolina Arts Commission and One Columbia [Virtual]
“Expert Sessions”, NC Black Women’s Art Collective: Center for Visual Arts, Greensboro, NC [Virtual]
2021
“Post-graduate Practices”, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), Undergraduate Senior Seminar Professional Practice, [Virtual]
“Presenting as Practice with Jessica Gaynelle Moss and Alberto Aguilar”, Office of Public Art, [Virtual]
2020
“Artist Support: Diversity + Leadership Affinity Group”, Alliance of Artists Communities [Virtual]
"Artists as Servant Leader", BOOM Festival Forum, Charlotte, NC
“Creating Black Autonomous Spaces: Juneteenth” [Covid-19 rescheduled], University of Chicago,
2019
“Mediation Across Professions”, Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
“BA Capstone Senior Seminar”, Oklahoma State,
“MFA Professional Practices”, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Museums: Southeast + Beyond”, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), Undergraduate Senior Course,
“Water”, Creative Mornings - Charlotte, Charlotte, NC
2018
"Black Contemporary Art”, Sphere Series, New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
"Mediation Across Professions", Washington & Jefferson College, Washington, PA
>2017
2010 “POWER UP” Program, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 “Beatmakers Academy”, Carnegie Mellon University, Arts Greenhouse, Pittsburgh, PA
Panels
2022
"Collectors in Conversation: The Last 3 Photographs I Bought with Fred Bidwell, Lori Hepner, Adam Milliron and Jessica Gaynelle Moss", Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
“In Conversation: Interpretation with Jessica Gaynelle Moss, FreWuhn and Kilolo Luckett”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Progeny of Change with Christine Bethea, Jameelah Platt, Jessica Gaynelle Moss, Amanda Awanjo and Kemuel Benyehudah”, Brewhouse Association, Pittsburgh, PA [Virtual]
2021
“Creating Black Autonomous Spaces with Jessica Gaynelle Moss & SHAN Wallace”, The August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA
“Diverse Cultural Outlets in Pittsburgh with Day Bracey, Miracle Jones & Jessica Moss”, Allegheny County Bar Association, Committee for Diversity & Inclusion, [Virtual]
“Gratitude, Notes + Artifacts with Jessica Gaynelle Moss, Mary Anne Quiroz, Brandon Gryde, and John Davis”, Artist Communities Alliance, Field Conversations, [Virtual]
2020
“Black Motherhood with Tara Fay Coleman”, Carlow University, [Virtual]
“Sibyls Shrine: Public Art + Communities Symposium with Alisha Wormsley, Jessica Gaynelle Moss & Naomi Chambers”, Office of Public Art + Neighborhood Allies, [Virtual]
“Photography While Black with Featuring Lou Jones, Chandra McCormick, Keith Calhoun, Titus Brooks Heagins, Jessica Moss, Kennedi Carter, Mark Clennon, Courtney Reid Eaton, and moderated by Michael Betts”, Click! Photography Festival, [Virtual]
“Pittsburgh Philanthropy with Celeste Smith and Shaunda McDill: Week 7, Episode 24”, Alone Together Pittsburgh, [Virtual]
2019
"Dapline! with artists LaMont Hamilton & André Zachery and curators Tara Fay Coleman & Jessica Gaynelle Moss”, Bunker Projects, Pittsburgh, PA
2018
"An Exploration of Black Life with Stephanie Woods, Jessica Moss, Carmen Neely, Brianna Robinson", Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, Charlotte, NC
"Black Blooded with Dr. Jen Edwards, Zun Lee, Jessica Moss, Sherrill Roland, Chris Watts", Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
"Los Afro-Latinos with Jose Aurelio Baez, Esteban Jefferson, Jessica Moss and Sadie Woods", LaCa Projects, Charlotte, NC
2017
"Of Women, By Women with Micah Cash and Jessica Moss", The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
"Brian Leahy: Easy Colors", New Gallery of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
2016
“The New Frontier Day Lab: The Future of Southern Documentary”, Sundance Institute & The Harvey B. Gantt Center, Charlotte, NC
"9 Principles of Ethical Redevelopment", Theaster Gates, University of Chicago & Place Lab, Chicago, IL
Podcast + Interviews
2022 This Thing We Call Art, Guest
2022 SLB Radio Productions, Inc., Guest
2021 What Does it Mean to be Black, Podcast, Guest
2020 NikNak, Podcast, Guest
2020 Rugged Angel, Podcast, Guest
CONSULTING PROJECTS
2022
The Pittsburgh Foundation, Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh Grant Program
Opportunity Fund, Rest and Respite for Black Women
2021
Office of Public Art, Seed Money Fund for Black Artists
Office of Public Art, Public Art Commission: Art in Communities
Joan Mitchell Center, Spring 2021 Resident Artists
City of Pittsburgh, Cantini Mosaic Public Art Commission
National Trust for Historic Preservation, Nina Simone Childhood Home
The Pittsburgh Foundation
The Heinz Endowment
2020
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Permanent Collection
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian
Carnegie Mellon University, School for Public Policy and Management, Master of Arts Management Course
2019
The Center for Craft, Practice-Based Research Advisory Group
JUROR
2022
Thomas E. Potts and Betty H. Potts Scholarship Selection Committee (20, 21, 22, 23)
2021
The Heinz Endowment, Individual Artists Support
Common Field, 2021 Convening Scholarship Program
Office of Public Art, Allegheny Overlook Street Mural
Thomas E. Potts and Betty H. Potts Scholarship Selection Committee (20, 21)
Arts & Science Council, Culture Blocks
2020
Office of Public Art, Smallman St. Pedestrian Plaza
2019
City of Charlotte, Beatties Ford Signal Box
2018
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Public Art Advisory Member (‘18,’17)
ArtFields, 2018 Juror
2017
NC Arts & Science Council, Public Art Commission
ACRE Residency, 2017 Juror
701 Center for Contemporary Art, 701 CCA Prize Juror
LEADERSHIP
2023
Atlantic Center for the Arts' National Council, Member
2022
Brew House Association, Executive Board Member ('22, '23)
Women of Visions, Officer ('22, '23)
2021
University of Pittsburgh Black Law Student Association, Mentor (‘20, ‘21)
Brew House Association Distillery Artist Residency, 2021-2022 Mentor
Alliance of Artists Communities, BIPOC Affinity Group Member (‘20, ‘21)
Carnegie Mellon University, Admission Council, Member (2014-2021)
NC Black Women"s Roundtable, Member (2016-2021)
The Light Factory, Exhibition Committee Member (2018-2021)
PGH Metro Movement Law Pros, Member (‘20, ‘21)
Common Field Convening, Member (20, 21)
>2019
2019 The Lorien Academy of the Arts, Executive Board Member (‘19, ‘18, ‘17)
2018 University of Pittsburgh, Black Law Student Association Director (‘18,’17)
2017 EmpowHERment Inc., Mentor
2015 Hyde Park Art Center, Steering Committee Member
2014 Carnegie Mellon University, Admission Council, Member
2014 SAIC, Mental Health Student Leader, Member
2014 Midwest Registrars Committee, Member
2014 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Admissions, Graduate Ambassador
2013 SAIC, F News, Correspondent + Illustrator
CERTIFICATES, RESIDENCIES + FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Office of Public Art, Placemaking Academy, 6 week Course
2020 The Pittsburgh Foundation, 1 year Philanthropic Fellowship
2018 Elsewhere Museum, Southern Constellations Fellow, 3 month Residency
2016 Central Piedmont Community College, 3 month Grant Writing Course
2016 NC Arts & Science Council, "Lead With Intention" Leadership Program
2014 Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists, 2 week Winter Residency
INTERNSHIPS
2015 Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago EXPO, Gallery Assistant
2014 Hyde Park Art Center, Fundraising and Stewardship Internship
2014 Arts Alliance Illinois, Communications and Policy Development
2008 DreamWorks Animation, Feature, TV & Technology Internship
2006 Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, Exhibit Design and Install Internship
EDUCATION
2018 The University of Pittsburgh School of Law Master of Studies in Law (MSL)
2015 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago , Master of Arts (MA), Arts Administration, Policy and Management
2009 Carnegie Mellon University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Painting, Drawing and Printmaking
PRESS
2023
2022
Pittsburgh City Paper, "Pittsburgh artist provides vital creative space "for and by Black people" By Dani Janae
The Root "Jessica Moss Connects Artists and Community in North Carolina with Artist Residency, The Roll Up CLT" By Alexandra Jane
2021
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, “The Tools that She Has” By Kristen Wishon
2019
2018
Charlotte Magazine, Jessica Moss Connects, Houses Artists in Charlotte and Beyond BY ANDY SMITH
Pride Magazine, The Roll Up: Charlotte’s New Artist Residency Program By JIMESE ORANGE
Charlotte Magazine, Review: Black Blooded at New Gallery of Modern Art By ANDY SMITH
Creative Loafing, Jessica Moss Makes the Gantt Center a Safe Zone for Local Artists By KIA O. MOORE
Education
2005 - 2009
Carnegie Mellon University, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Painting, Drawing and Printmaking
2013 - 2015
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Master of Arts (MA), Arts Administration, Policy and Management
2017 - 2018
The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Master of Studies in Law (MSL)
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