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Established through the generosity of an anonymous donor, The Artsy Fund at Yale SOM is bringing to Evans Hall artworks from underrepresented artists that depict a diverse range of people and experiences.

The Evans Hall Art Committee, a six-member body, selects and procures the art. Dean Kerwin Charles appointed Heidi Brooks, senior lecturer of organizational behavior, as chairperson in 2022."Our mission of educating leaders for business and society inspires me to pay attention to the way people experience the micro-society that is Yale SOM," Brooks said. "The lived experience of the iconography is a great way to help people see others and feel seen. I'm delighted to have the chance to impact the way people experience Yale SOM and each other through art. I hope that the new works inspire and evoke rich thinking and conversation about the way we engage with each other and in the world."

New Aquisition

Black Governors

Mario Moore, MFA

Location: Edward P. Evans Hall, Fourth Floor above the

Description of work

Artist Bio:

Mario Moore, a Detroit native, received a BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI in 2009 and an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT in 2013. Moore’s paintings focus on the personal, social and political implications of our segregated society. Presenting stories of his own life and those of friends and family, Moore weaves in multiple references to history, art, politics and literature to complete his narrative. He is a recent Kresge Arts Fellow (2023) awarded through the Kresge Foundation and a recipient of the prestigious Princeton Hodder Fellowship (2018-2019) through Princeton University. He also has been awarded residencies at Duke University, Josef and Annie Albers Foundation, Fountainhead, and Knox College. Moore’s work is in the permanent collections of but not limited to the Detroit Institute of Arts, Princeton University Art Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Mott- Warsh Collection, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, California African American Museum, Flint Institute of Art and The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center.

Moore’s work has been widely exhibited, including at The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, NJ; the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI; Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art and the traveling Smithsonian Sites Exhibition, Men of Change.

Mario Moore / Enshrined: Presence & Preservation exhibition—Moore’s first survey show—opened at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit in June 2021 and traveled to the California African American Museum (CAAM) in March 2022, [his first solo exhibition on the West Coast]. Moore’s most recent traveling museum exhibition, Revolutionary Times opened at the Flint Institute of Arts in January 2024 and closed at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in August 2024. Mario Moore currently works and lives in Detroit, MI.