MOMO is an American artist who began his experimental outdoor work in the late 90s, working with homemade tools and borrowed public space. Ten years of free ranging projects, centered around adapted masonry techniques, strategies based on collage, computer code, and seriality, came to form the basis of his visual language.

This language finds it's expression in paint, on commissioned walls and studio work from 2009 to the present day. Notable mural commissions include those from Facebook, Pepsi, the NFL, the World Trade Center, John Hancock Tower, Art Production Fund NY, European Capital of Culture, the NYC DOT, and Yohji Yamamoto's Y-3. However, self organized walls in Jamaica, Sicily, and Arizona (2013, 2016, 2018), painted at the artists expense, have been important in demonstrating innovative techniques for a general audience free of the usual commercial concerns.

In 2016 Maya Hayuk, MOMO, Swoon, and Faile inaugurated the new Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art in Brussels, with installations on five floors. Solo shows the following year 2017 were held at Delimbo Gallery in Sevilla and Alice Gallery in Belgium, with an experimental group show of Mark Flood, Revok, Paul Kremer, and MOMO at Library Street Collective in Detroit.

Exhibitions

Machine Show
(Group Show: Mark Flood, Revok, Paul Kremer, MOMO)
Library Street Collective
Detroit 2017
lscgallery.com

Wilderness
(Solo Show) Delimbo Gallery
Sevila, Spain 2017
delimbo.com

Best Picture
(Solo Show) Alice Gallery
Brussels, Belgium 2017
alicebxl.com

City Lights
(Inagural Group Show) MIMA Museum
Brussels, Belgium 2016
mimamuseum.eu

Darmon 2
(Solo Show) Studio Cromie
Grottaglie, Italy, 2013
studiocromie.it

There Are No Wheels in Nature
(Solo Show) Winterlong Gallery
Niort, France 2014
winterlong-gallerie.com

Just Before Brazil
(Group Show) Alice Gallery, Brussels 2014
alicebxl.com

Butt Joints
(Solo Show) May Gallery and Residency
New Orleans, Louisiana 2013
themayspace.com

Hecho en Oaxaca
(Group Show) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca
Oaxaca, Mexico, 2013
museomaco.com

Darmon
(Solo Show) Grottaglie, Italy, 2013
studiocromie.it

Artscapes
(group Show) Scion Installation Space
Los Angeles 2010
scion.com/space

Nova
Museu da Imagem e do Som
São Paulo, Brazil 2010
rojo-nova.com

Post-Graffiti, Geometry, and Abstraction
(Group Show) Fundación Caixa Galicia
LaCoruna, Spain 2010
muau.org

Y-3 F/W 2009
NY Fashion Week Show
(68’x82′ Runway and Clothing)
Pier 40 New York 2009
adidas.com/y-3

PLAF
(Collaboration with Eltono)
Anonymous Gallery, New York NY 2008
anonymousgallery.com

MMMB
(Collaboration with Melissa Brown)
Espeis Archetype Gallery
Williamsburg NY 2008
espeis.com

11 Spring Street
(Group Show)
New York NY 2006
woostercollective.com
City of Sydney mural commision Sydney, Australia 2016
cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

Lectures

Summer Education Program
Open Source
Philadelphia Mural Arts 2016
muralarts.org/opensource

University of New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana 2013

Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana 2013

Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, Maryland 2012

University of Maryland
Maryland, Baltimore 2011

Incubate DIY Conference Tilburg, Holland 2011
incubate.nl

Commissions

3 Story Mural
Yuma Arts Center, Yuma, Arizona 2018

3 Sided 5 story Mural
Home of the Arts, Gold Coast, Australia 2018

Single Story Mural
Rooftop Courtyard
Facebook New York 2017

Single Story Mural
Facebook Headquarters California 2017

Lobby Mural
Mercedes House NYC 2017

Product Package Design/Campaign
Life Water 2017-2018

5 Story Vinyl Mural
8th Ave & 34th St, NYC
Art Production Fund, NYC 2015

2 Story Mural
Hudson River Trading Headquarters
4 World Trade Center NYC 2017

Stadium Entrance Mural
Miami Dolphins Miami 2016

23 story mural
Philadelphia Mural Arts 2016

Single Story Mural
Ace Hotel Palm Springs, California 2015

Lobby Mural
John Hancock Tower Boston 2015

2 - 5 Story Murals
Milestone Project Girona, Spain 2013, 2012

Single Story Mural
Wynwood Walls (Art Basel) Miami, Florida 2012

Murals & Installations
Bien Urbain Besançon, France 2012, 2013

Murals
Fame Grottaglie, Italy 2010, 2011, 2012

3 Story Mural
Outdoor Rome 2012

4 Story Mural
Open Walls Baltimore Baltimore, Maryland 2012

4 Story Mural
Incubate Tilburg, Holland 2011

Murals and Installations
Outomatic Leuven, Belgium 2011

Installations
Nova Contemporary Culture Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 2011

5 Story Mural
Crono Festival Lisbon, Portugal 2011

Publishing

Street To Studio Rafael Schacter
Lund Humphries, 2018

Blisss Magazine Interview June 2018

Juxtapoz Magazine Interview, 2016

Graffiti Art Magazine Feature Profile & Cover 2014

The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti Rafael Schacter Yale University Press, 2013

Southern Review Feature Profile, Jessica L Faust 2013

MOMO in 74 Pieces Artist Monograph, Studio Cromie 2012

Abstract Graffiti Cedar Lewisohn, Merrell Publishers 2011

An Artist’s Alfresco John Hancock
New York Times 09/18/2010

Trespass Uncommissioned Urban Art Taschen 2010

Beyond the Streeet The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art Gestalten 2010

3AM-6AM Artist Monograph, Rojo 2009

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