Kirsten Mosher

Kirsten Mosher is an American artist and author based in Western Massachusetts. Mosher is engaged in video, writing, studio work and art in public places. At once subversive and always playful, Mosher's work draws attention to how context transforms the language of urban scenes, signs and furniture by navigating and challenging everyday boundaries. Mosher often documents the relationships between and beyond seemingly opposing spaces: inside/outside, private/public, natural/artificial: A baseball diamond merges with a busy intersection; a road extends into the interior of a gallery; and in her performance "Carmen," she crosses streets and parks as an amalgamation of human and car. Mosher has been exhibiting her work nationally and internationally since the late 1980s, at venues such as the Venice Biennale Aperto, Villa Arson, Nice, France, the Museum of Modern Art, the Public Art Fund, NYC, Boston Center for the Arts, and MUSAC in Leon Spain. Her installation Soul Mate 180° for which she received the LACMA Art+Technology Award was exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2020. In 2024 she was invited to participate in an artist residency and exhibition Word is Round at the FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France.Mosher’s practice includes artist books, stories and poetry. Her Gumhead books were published by MUSAC in Leon, Spain and Revenge of the Nice Dogs by the Villa Arson, Nice France. Her recently published chapbooks are Zero (minutes to) Home, published by Selektion, and Plea$e Steal Me for 100 Plus Dollar-zz, Lily Poetry Review Books. Her stories can be found in Minor Literature[s], and Exacting Clam, Magazine Sonder, Bath Flash Fiction Anthology, HAVE, HAS, HAD and forthcoming in Wigleaf. Her series Automotive Stories occasionally show up in the Automotive sections of local newspapers. Mosher has lectured, conducted professional development workshops, and created publications, and worked as an art educator at institutions such as Dia Art Foundation, LA County Museum, C.C.S. Bard College, Boston Center for the Arts, and Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France.