Mores McWreath received a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an MFA from the University of Southern California. He attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program. Recent solo and two person exhibitions/commissions include the New Museum, CUE Art Foundation, M+B Gallery, and Bryan Ohno Gallery. Select group shows include the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Walker Art Center, Art in General, Soloway Gallery, ar/ge kunst Bolzano, the International Studio & Curatorial Program, and Primetime. His videos have been screened in festivals and exhibitions both nationally and internationally including Anthology Film Archives, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, NURTUREart, European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück, Taiwan International Video Exhibition, Fonlad Portugal, Videomedeja Serbia, Crosstalk Budapest, 700IS Iceland, and the Jakarta International Video Festival. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York and is currently an Adjunct Professor at The Cooper Union.
I make a new Spot video every week that allows me to react quickly to events in the world as they unfold. Whiteness has always been a conceptual component of my art making practice and has moved to the forefront in response to the current social and political climate in the United States. The Spot videos, loosely following the shape and form of commercial advertising, are typically 15 or 30 seconds long and are posted to a variety of social media platforms. My goal each week is to enter the studio and use my white masculine body to make visible white defenses and abuses of power across the political spectrum. By excavating my own fears and desires I hope to project them out into the world to contribute to a larger dialogue and critique.
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