ABOUT
Cobi Moules is a painter whose work centers around queer and trans desires. Born in a small conservative rural town in central California his work frequently reflects upon stifling historical representations of the landscape and reshapes how the queer body sits within that history.
He currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA
CONTACT
cobimoules@gmail.com
EDUCATION
MFA, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2010
BFA, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 2004
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Showering of Sparkling Bits, Harold J Miossi Art Gallery, Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2024
Let’s Get Physical, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA, 2020
Bois Just Wanna Have Fun, Samek Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, 2019
That's All They Really Want , Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY , 2018
A Little Off the Top, Carroll and Sons, Boston, MA, 2018
Self Portraits: 2009-2015, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, 2016
New Kid: Back to the Beginning, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA, 2016
New Kid, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2016
Bois Just Wanna Have Fun, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2013
Playing with Myself, again, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA, 2013
Playing with Myself: Painting and Drawings by Cobi Moules, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV, 2013
SFAI: Cobi Moules, Artist-In-Residence, Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM , 2012
Hairy dudes and the moments before, Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Portals, Fleischer/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Sublime, Tiger Stricks Asteroid Philly, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Queer Love: Affection and Romance in Contemporary Art, Lehman College Art Gallery and La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
Love Junk, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY, 2022
New England Now: People, Shelburne Museum, VT, 2021
Personal Space: Self-Portraits on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2020
Draw the Line, The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, 2019
Creative Pride: Refection and Celebration, The National Arts Club, New York, NY , 2019
Queer as I, HERE Art Center, New York, NY , 2019
Ourselves, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI, 2018
Under a Dismal Boston Skyline, Stone Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA, 2018
OFF-SPRING: New Generations, 21c Museum, Lexington, KY, 2018
Self Indulgence, Hampden Gallery, UMass, Amherst, MA, 2017
Made Masculine, Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, 2017
Rural Fantasies (two person exhibition with Cupid Ojala), Iridian Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2017
Expanded Visions: Fifty Years of Collecting, Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY, 2017
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now (traveling), Dixon Gallery and Gardens , Memphis, TN, 2017
Luminance, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2017
In This Realm, Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, Maine, 2016
Mortal Things: Portraits Look Back and Forth, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2016
rheo-GRANDE, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, 2016
Summer Session, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2016
Beyond the Selfie: Portraits in the 21st century, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now (traveling), Jepson Center, Telfair Museums, Savannah GA, 2016
Signal, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
Appropriate(d) Behavior, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY, 2016
Small is Beautiful: New York, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
The Mayfair Exhibition, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now (traveling), Crystal Bridges, Museum, Bentonville, AR, 2014-2015
Lyons Wier Gallery, Art Miami, Miami, FL, 2014
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
Carroll and Sons Gallery, Minneapolis Print and Drawing Fair, Minneapolis, MN, 2014
The New Romantics, Mark Miller Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
MIA, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
Summer Sessions, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2013
Multiplicity, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2013
Carroll and Sons Gallery, Miami Project, Miami, FL, 2012
Gerald Peters Gallery, Art Aspen, Aspen, CO, 2012
One more kiss then we’re history, Platform Galley, Seattle, WA, 2011
Under the Radar, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY, 2011
The Question of Drawing, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME, 2011
Joan Mitchell Foundation 2010 MFA, Cue Gallery, New York, NY, 2011
Family Portrait, Foster Gallery, Dedham, MA, 2011
QueerMe: 2011 Art & Gender Politics NYC, The Center, New York, NY, 2011
Visibly Invisible: Art and Transgender Subjectivity, Cabrillo Gallery, Aptos, CA, 2010
Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2010
Clothes Make the Man?, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
In Between, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 2010
RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
Artist-in-Resident, Space Gallery, Portland, ME, 2016
Artist-in-Resident, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Nebraska City, NE, 2013
Artist-in-Resident, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, 2013
Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation Grant, New York, NY, 2012
Artist-in-Resident, Ucross Foundation, Sheridan, WY, 2012
Artist-in-Resident, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, 2012
Artist-in-Resident, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL, 2012
Blanche E. Colman Award, Boston, MA, 2011
Artist-in-Resident, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2011
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, 2011
SMFA Traveling Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2011
Joan Mitchell MFA Grant, New York, NY, 2010
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21c Museum
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville AR
Leslie Lohman Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
ARTIST TALKS AND LECTURES
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2024
Samek Museum, Lewisburg, PA, 2020
VCU, Richmond, VA, 2016
Space Gallery, Portland, ME, 2016
University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, NE, 2013
West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon, WV, 2013
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, 2013
Visiting Artist Lecture, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 2011
Family Portrait, Foster Gallery, Dedham, MA, 2011
Clothes Make the Man?, Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, 2010
Thesis Exhibition, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 2010
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
Lanham, Camillia. “Cobi Moules Pulls 1980s Horror Films and Landscapes Together to Put Queer Bodies in Spaces That Once Limited Them.” New Times San Luis Obispo, 21 Mar. 2024
Pickworth, Amy, editor. Manual, no. 16 Intimacy, Fall/Winter 2021, p. 87.
Casals, Gonzalo, and Noam Parness, editors. Queer Holdings: a Survey of the Leslie-Lohman Museum Collection. HIRMER, 2019. p. 225.
Jess T. Dugan, “Q&A: Cobi Moules”, Strange Fire Collective, June 13, 2019
Coco Romack, “ 28 Self-Portraits Show the Beauty of Queer Creativity”, Out, June 12, 2019
Edward Clark, “Thought-Provokers: South Boston”, Boston Voyager, February 19, 2019.
Pamela Reynolds, “ ‘Under A Dismal Boston Skyline,' These People Are Making Great Art,” The ARTery, WBUR, September 12, 2018
Zachary Small, “Art that Slows Down How We Assess Gender,” Hyperallergic, April 4, 2016
Bryan Granger, “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Jepson Center,” Daily Serving, March 7, 2016
Jillian Steinhauer, “Spring/Break, a Sprawling Alternative Art Fair that Delivers,” Hyperallergic, March 3, 2016.
Rae Gouirand, ed. OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, no.33, September, 2014
Kurt Beers, 100 Painters of Tomorrow, New York ,NY: Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 277.
Harper’s Magazine April, 2014, p.13
Steven T. Zevitas, ed. New American Paintings: Issue 110, Boston, MA: Open Studios Press, February 2014.
Linda DeBerry, “Travels with State of the Art: Cobi Moules in the Great American Landscape,” Crystal Bridges Blog, February 6, 2014.
Don Bacigalupi, “Notes From the Road: Boston,” Huffington Post, February 4, 2014.
Daniel Gauss, “The Conceptual Realism of Cobi Moules at Lyons Wier Gallery,” examiner.com, October 25, 2013.
“Bois Just Wanna Have Fun,” iGNANT, October 21, 2013.
Christopher Harrity, “Artist Spotlight: Cobi Moules,” Advocate, October 12, 2013.
Tyler Coates, “‘Bois Just Wanna Have Fun’ Puts a Witty, Queer Twist on American Landscape Painting,” Flavorwire, October 9, 2013.
Andrea Sherrill Evans, “Interviews: Cobi Moules,” Temporary Land Bridge, September 30, 2013.
Abigail Ross Goodman, ed. Art for Rollins, Winter Park, Fl: Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, 2013, p. 88-89.Cate McQuaid, “At play with a specialist in self-portraiture” The Boston Globe, June 25, 2013
Kate Skelly, “Art Santa FE: Sparkle and Fade” Art Slant, July 18, 2012
Leslie Patrick, "Art: Out and Proud," Good Times Santa Cruz, October 6, 2010
Alia Wilson, "Gender identity explored in Cabrillo Gallery's 'Visibly Invisible,'” Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 30, 2010
Charlie Price, "He, She, Us," Good Times Santa Cruz, September 29, 2010
Cate McQuaid. "Dynamics of disconnection: Artists let body language tell the story," The Boston Globe, June 16, 2010
Cate McQuaid. "Six to See," The Boston Globe, April 23, 2010
Cate McQuaid. "Clothes Encounters," The Boston Globe, March 25, 2010
Cate McQuaid. "Uncovering the story behind the art," The Boston Globe, July 1, 2009