"Moore excavates both institutional and individual memories, quantifying the weight and qualifying the texture of oppression."
—Helen Hughes, 'Archie Moore', Artforum, December 2022
Archie Moore (b. 1970, Toowoomba, l. Redland, Queensland. Kamilaroi/Bigambul) works across media in conceptual, research-based portrayals of self and national histories. His ongoing interests include key signifiers of identity (skin, language, smell, home, genealogy, flags), the borders of intercultural understanding and misunderstanding and the wider concerns of racism.
In 2024, Archie Moore presented a solo exhibition, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, curated by Ellie Buttrose. kith and kin was awarded the Golden Lion for best National Participation. In August 2024, the Australian Government announced that it is acquiring kith and kin to be gifted jointly to Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane and Tate, London. ARTnet named kith and kin #1 in its list of Defining Works of 2024.
In 2018, Griffith University Art Museum presented a solo exhibition of Moore’s work, Archie Moore 1970 - 2018, curated by GUAM Director, Angela Goddard.
A permanent public artwork by Moore, United Neytions, was commissioned as part of a partnership between Sydney Airport and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia in 2018 and is located airside at Sydney International Airport T1 Terminal.
Moore completed his Bachelor of Visual Arts at Queensland University of Technology in 1998. He was awarded the 2018 Creative Industries Faculty Outstanding Alumni Award by Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. In 2001, he was awarded the Millennial Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship which enabled him to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
Archie Moore has been represented by The Commercial since 2012.
Key exhibitions
- Archie Moore — kith and kin, curated by Ellie Buttrose, Australia Pavilion, 60th Biennale di Venezia, 2024
- Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art, curated by Ellie Buttrose and Katina Davidson, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2022-2023
- Archie Moore — Dwelling (Victorian Issue), 2022 | Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2022
- Archie Moore — Mīal, The Commercial, Sydney, 2022
- UN/LEARNING AUSTRALIA, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Michelle Newton, Johanna Bear, Gahee Park, Eugene Hanna Park, and Kani Kim, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, co-curated with Artspace, Sydney, 2022
- The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W.E.B. Du Bois, curated by José Da Silva, UNSW Galleries, Sydney, 2021
- Archie Moore 1970 - 2018, curated by Angela Goddard, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2018
- The National: New Australian Art, curated by Nina Miall, Carriageworks, Sydney, 2017
- Defying Empire: National Indigenous Art Triennial, curated by Tina Baum, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 2017
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20th Biennale of Sydney, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 2016
Key readings
- Angela Goddard (et al), Archie Moore 1970 – 2018, exh. cat. Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, 2018, 72pp
- Helen Hughes, ‘Archie Moore: Gertrude Contemporary’, Artforum, vol. 61, no. 4, December 2022, p. 216
- Archie Moore and Paris Lettau, Archie Moore discusses Dwelling (Victorian Issue) with Paris Lettau, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, 2022
- Djon Mundine OAM, ‘The Colour Line: Archie Moore & W. E. B. Du Bois’, di’van/ A Journal of Accounts, no.10, pp. 82-93
- Toni Ross, ‘Archie Moore: UNSW Galleries’, ARTFORUM, vol. 59, no. 9, May 2021
- Steven Dow, Archie Moore Interview, Archie Moore 1970 - 2018, exh. cat. Griffith University Art Museum, p30 - p39
- Wes Hill, 'Archie Moore's Conflicting Energies', Frieze, 12 April 2018
- Archie Moore, ‘14 Nations’, in Fiona Foley, Louise Martin-Chew and Fiona Nicoll (eds.), Courting Blakness - Recalibrating Knowledge in the Sandstone University, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 2015, pp118-123
Collections
Artbank
Campbelltown Arts Centre
Fondation Opale, Lens (CH)
Gilbert and Tobin Collection, Sydney
Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane
Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS, Sydney
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Murray Art Museum Albury, Albury
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Newcastle Region Art Gallery, Newcastle
Owen and Wagner Collection, North Carolina
Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
Slattery Collection, Sydney
Sydney Airport, Sydney
Tate, London (UK)
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
University of Sydney Art Collection, Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney