"This project examines these formative works while rendering new views of a non-hierarchical landscape full of queer joy. Amorphous silicone bodies undulate over and around the paintings, reframing and obscuring the historical narratives while revealing spaces reimagined."
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.
Moules received a BFA from San Jose State University in 2004. In 2010, he received an MFA from The School of Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University. His work has been exhibited at culturally significant institutions, including The Leslie Lohman Museum, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Jepson Center, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, and Smack Mellon. His work is in the collections of the Crystal Bridges Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum, RISD Museum, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and 21c Museum. He has been an artist-in-resident at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Ucross Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson, Vermont Studio Center, and Space Gallery, among others.
He currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA