Vita
Mosse lives and works in New York.
His received a BA in English literature from King's College London in 2001, an MRes in cultural studies from the London Consortium in 2003, a postgraduate diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2005 and a photography MFA from Yale School of Art in 2008.
He has worked in Iran, Pakistan, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia. He is best known for his infrared images from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).For his infrared photographs he used a large format camera and the now-discontinued Kodak Aerochrome film. Aerochrome is a false-color infrared film originally intended for aerial vegetation surveys and for military reconnaissance, such as to identify camouflaged targets. It registers a spectrum of infrared light invisible to the human eye, rendering the green landscape and soldiers' uniforms in vivid hues of lavender, crimson and hot pink.
Critic Sean O'Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said "His images from there often seem to skirt the real and the fictional, simply though their heightened and unreal colours. He has made the familiar seem strange and the real seem heightened to the point of absurdity. This is war reportage – but not as we know it." Willy Staley, writing in the New York Times Magazine, said "Mosse highlights the eastern Congo's natural bounty while acknowledging both the medium's origins and, he points out, the West’s tendency to see in the Congo only darkness and insanity."
In June 2015 Mosse became a nominee member of Magnum Photos.
born 1980, Kilkenny, Ireland
Education
- 2006-2008
- Yale University, MFA in photography
- 2004-2005
- Goldsmiths, postgraduate diploma in fine art (AHRB funding)
- 2002-2003
- London Consortium, MRes in cultural studies
- 1998-2001
- Kings College London, BA in English literature, first class honours
Awards, fellowships and residencies
- 2012
- European Cities of Advanced Sound Commission, ECAS Network
- 2012
- International Artist Residency, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
- 2012
- Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
- 2012
- Falk Visiting Artist, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
- 2011
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, with supplemental stipend from Leon Levy Foundation
- 2009
- Landscapes of Quarantine workshop at Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York
- 2006-08
- Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Performing and Visual Arts, selected by Robert Storr
- 2005
- Perspective Award, selected by Ariella Azoulay and Terry Atkinson, Ormeau Baths Gallery
- 2005
- International Artist Residency, Ramallah, Palestine
Lectures, public presentations
- 2013
- Denver Museum of Art
- 2013
- Princeton University, Princeton
- 2013
- VCU, Richmond Virginia
- 2013
- Massart, Boston
- 2013
- Escuela de Fotografia, Madrid
- 2012
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- 2012
- University of Toronto Arts Center
- 2012
- Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
- 2012
- State University of New York, New Paltz
- 2012
- Blind Spot, New York
- 2012
- Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
- 2012
- Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
- 2012
- Satellite Salon, Berlin
- 2011
- Aperture Foundation, New York
- 2011
- The George Washington University, Washington DC
- 2011
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
- 2011
- Savannah College of Art and Design, Hong Kong
- 2011
- Gallery of Photography, Dublin
- 2009
- Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Collections
Irish Museum of Modern Art, The David Kronn Collection
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
The Hiscox Collection, London
The Martin Z Margulies Collection, Miami
Musée d’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City
The Dale and Doug Anderson Collection, Miami
Cleveland Museum of Art
Statoil Art Collection, Oslo
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro