Jaydan Moore, Specimen # 41, 2020

5" x 5" x 1"

Jaydan’s career began as an undergraduate at California College of the Arts, in Oakland, CA. He received his MFA and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jaydan’s work is in the permanent collections of the SF MOMA, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts-Houston, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art, and private collections worldwide. His work has been exhibited at Design/Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, Basel (Switzerland), the Museum of Art and Design in NYC, the Cheongju Craft Biennale, and the R & Company Gallery. He has furthered his career through generous opportunities as an artist in residence at Penland School of Crafts, Kohler Arts/Industry Program, the Fountainhead Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University, and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft. Moore has received grants and awards through the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, the American Craft Council, the North Carolina Arts Fellowship, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation.  Jaydan has held teaching opponents at Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of Georgia, Penland School of Crafts, and Haystack Mountain School of Craft.

He currently resides in Richmond, Virginia where he will be teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University and Old Dominion University in the fall while working on pieces for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Design/Miami, and will have work on view for the Homo Faber exhibition in Venice, Italy and Arkansas Museum of Fine Art.