"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.
Archie Moore's solo exhibition, kith and kin, in the Australia Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, curated by Ellie Buttrose, was awarded Golden Lion for best National Participation. kith and kin is now jointly owned by 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. kith and kin will be on exhibition at QAGOMA 27.09.25 - 18.10.26.
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.
In 2024, Archie Moore was awarded an honorary doctorate by Queensland University of Technology for his contribution to Australian art. He has been represented by The Commercial since 2012.
Key exhibitions
Key readings
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