Dominic Musa

Dominic Musa’s paintings fuse his personal experiences via invention, peripheral observation, and recollection with the collective psyche. The paintings pull from personal and found photographs utilizing creation, erasure, time, and ultimately visual meditation. This taps into the subconscious psychological thread grouping the perceived personal, collective ideas and images by forming an internal discourse from the artist onto each viewer. This invites the viewer into Musa’s visual worlds and to participate in a common dialogue through a continual communion or network.

Dominic Musa (b. 1989) lives and works in Paterson, New Jersey. He received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the SVA - School of Visual Arts, in New York. His past solo and group exhibitions include: Outside and Around, at Y2K Group (New York), Unsettled Waters, at Taymour Grahne Projects (London), Dal Segno, at Y2K Group (New York), Anywhere Out Of The World, at Helena Anrather (New York), Beach, at Taymour Grahne Projects (London), Highway Blues, curated by JJ Manford, at Underdonk (Brooklyn).

Dominic Musa - Itch for Solitude
From December 11, 2021, to January 22, 2022

 

+ CV

EDUCATION

2017

  • M.F.A Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I

2013

  • B.F.A Fine Arts with Honors, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

+ Solo Exhibitions

2021

  • Itch for Solitude, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, Canada
  • Unsettled Waters, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, England
  • Outside and Around, Y2K Group, New York, NY

2019

  • Anywhere Out Of The World, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, NY

+ Group Exhibitions

2021

  • Visual Unpredictability, curated by Adrian Schachter, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York, NY
  • Dal Segno, Y2K Group, New York, NY
  • Beach, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, England

2020

  • Still Life, curated by Helena Anrather and Megan Yuan, Drawer NYC (online), New York, NY
  • Lean Out the Window, Auxier Kline, New York, NY

2019

  • Highway Blues, curated by JJ Manford, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
  • In The Summertime, curated by Brent Auxier, Danese Corey Gallery, New York, NY
  • Bloom , Over Under Room, Brooklyn, NY
  • Practice, curated by Drawer, Vacation , New York, NY

2017

  • 75 Works on Paper, Beers London, London, England
  • Totally Untitled curated by Jonathan DeDecker, YUI Gallery, New York, NY
  • RISD MFA Painting, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • New Contemporaries, The Gelman Gallery Providence, RI
  • Graduate Selections, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
  • Ocotillo, Curated by Jonathan DeDecker, Tyler School of Art Stella Elkins Gallery,Philadelphia,PA

2016

  • Stone Soup Nasty, organized by Katherine Aungier, Jennifer Lee, Zuriel Waters and Steven
  • Mykietyn, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
  • The Talking Lamp, curated by Laurence Owen, The Kennington Residency, London, England
  • Hang Ten, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY

+ Art fairs

2021

  • Untitled, Art 2021, with Galerie Nicolas Robert, Miami Beach (FL)

+ Press and Publications

2017

  • Kate Mothes, "Dominic Musa" Young Space, January 31st

2016

  • New American Painting Issue: 122 Northeast Edition