Ayanah Moor

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Chicago, IL, USA

Year at Millay: 2024

Website: https://www.ayanah.com/

Ayanah is a visual artist based in Chicago. Her artwork is held in the permanent collections of the Capital Group (Los Angeles); DePaul Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago); Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada (Las Vegas); Soho House, (London); and David L. Lawrence Convention Center, (Pittsburgh). Moor’s recent solo exhibitions include, Bless Your Heart at RUSCHMAN (Chicago); I Wish I Could Be You More Often at Cleve Carney Museum of Art (Glen Ellyn); and 4 Queens at Test Site Projects (Las Vegas); and group shows: t/here or t/here at Intermission Museum of Art + Stand4 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); Direct Message: Art, Language and Power, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (IL); Echoes: Reframing Collage, Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, IL); and Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NY). Her artwork is featured in Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere’s, Incite: Journal of Experimental Media, SPORTS (2017); and Nicole Fleetwood’s, Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness (2011). Ayanah earned an MFA from Tyler School of Art, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.