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Bio
Mark Moore was the Owner/Director of Mark Moore Gallery (Culver City, CA) for 33 years and is currently President of Contemporary Art Associates, Inc. (Orange, CA) and Mark Moore Fine Art Advisory.
Formerly, Moore was the Owner/Director of The Works Gallery (Long Beach/Costa Mesa, CA), which he founded in 1984. As a graduate of UCI's progressive art program, Moore's focuses his gallery program on international contemporary artists working in the areas of post-modern, minimalist or conceptual practices. He currently resides in Orange County, where he has lived since 1967.
During his years with The Works Gallery, Moore initiated an active art education program in Southern California. Moore also served on the steering committee for the Fine Arts Advisory Board at California State University (Long Beach), the Laguna Art Museum and Crystal Court/ South Coast Plaza. In 1988, The Works Gallery was featured in The Orange County Register's "Ten Best Galleries in Southern California," and in 1989, leading non-profit L.A. Artcore, selected Moore as its first recipient of the L.A. Artcore Award of Merit in the Arts. The Works Gallery was selected to participate in both the Chicago and Los Angeles International Art Fairs, and was the only U.S. gallery selected by South Korea's SLOOC and Ministry of Culture to represent the United States at the Olympics Art Festival during the Seoul Olympics in 1988.
In 1994, The Works Gallery relocated to Los Angeles in order to focus on the international secondary market. It rebranded as the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, was selected by the Art Market Guide as one of the "Top 35 Galleries in America" (1998). The gallery has participated in a number of major international fairs, including: Art Chicago International Art Fair, Art Cologne, Gramercy International Art Fair, PULSE Art Fairs (Miami, London, and New York), NADA Art Fair Miami, Scope Art Fair (Miami, Los Angeles, and New York), and the Armory Show. Moore served on the PULSE Advisory and Selection Committee from its inception in 2005 until 2012.
One of the most notable achievements of the Mark Moore Gallery was the orchestration and organization of the 1998 Mark Di Suvero sculpture exhibition. Produced in concert with the Orange County Museum of Art, this was the largest exhibition of outdoor sculpture by Mark Di Suvero in the United States in nearly twenty-five years.
Mark Moore Gallery also pioneered the development of the contemporary art market in Korea over the last twenty-five years, producing inaugural Korean exhibitions for artists such as Ed Ruscha, Christopher Wool, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, John McCracken, Sol Lewitt and Gerhard Richter. In addition, the gallery has done extensive work in the secondary market, mounting exhibitions in Seoul featuring Agnes Martin, Sigmar Polke, Bruce Nauman, Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Robert Therrien, Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, , Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Irwin and Terry Winters, among others. The organization of exhibitions and the building of major private and public global collections has become a major function of the Mark Moore Gallery.
The Mark Moore Gallery has focused on the development of emerging artists and has gained a solid international reputation as one of the premier sites for new talent. Over the last three decades the Mark Moore Gallery has included or debuted the work of numerous young artists in the early stages of their careers – many of whom have later gone on to tremendous international success. The Mark Moore Gallery currently represents nearly thirty distinquished emerging and mid-career artists.
Mark Moore currently serves on the University of California, Irvine's School of Fine Arts Dean’s Advisory Committee and the UCI Art Alliance Board as a special advisor. He is the recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award for the School of Fine Arts (2001) and is also a Lauds and Laurels award winner (2002).
He and his wife, Hilarie head the Moore Family Trust and the Mark & Hilarie Moore Collection, and are active in supporting the arts in Southern California. They are major donors of contemporary art to a number of regional museums, including the Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum; Museum of Fine Art Houston, Portland Art Museum, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Brooklyn Art Museum, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The McNay Art Museum, The Weisman Museum at Pepperdine Unviversity, The Sweeney Art Museum at UC Riverside, and The Honolulu Art Museum - to name but a few.
Mark and Hilarie are one of six Distinguished Donors to the Orange County Museum of Art, as well as members of the Fellows of the Contemporary Arts. They aid a number of charities, including Orangewood Children's Home and World Vision. They have two children, Catlin (born 1986) and Devin (born 1992) - Catlin Moore has served as the gallery Director since 2009. Mark and Hilarie Moore have been married since December 1984.
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