artist + educator
Alva Mooses is an interdisciplinary artist. Her works across printed media, photography, painting, and sculpture question how colonialism and capitalism have marked land, language, and human migration. She engages with earth-based materials to create an index of place and signal the memory of geological time.
Alva holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and an MFA from Yale University. She has exhibited her work in the U.S., Latin America, and Europe, and has completed fellowships and residencies at the Lower East Side Printshop, Socrates Sculpture Park, Center for Book Arts, Greenwich House Pottery, The University of Chicago, Tou Trykk in Stavanger, Norway, and Casa Wabi, in Oaxaca, Mexico, among others.
Alva has taught Printmaking, Sculpture, and Drawing at The Cooper Union and Cornell University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Hunter College.