Mark Moore Fine Art - A Brief History

During his years with The Works Gallery, Moore initiated an active art education program in Southern California. Moore also served on the steering committee for the Fine Arts Advisory Board at California State University (Long Beach), the Laguna Art Museum and Crystal Court/ South Coast Plaza. In 1988, The Works Gallery was featured in The Orange County Register's "Ten Best Galleries in Southern California," and in 1989, leading non-profit L.A. Artcore, selected Moore as its first recipient of the L.A. Artcore Award of Merit in the Arts. The Works Gallery was selected to participate in both the Chicago and Los Angeles International Art Fairs, and was the only U.S. gallery selected by South Korea's SLOOC and Ministry of Culture to represent the United States at the Olympics Art Festival during the Seoul Olympics in 1988.

In 1994, The Works Gallery relocated to Los Angeles in order to focus on the international secondary market. It rebranded as the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, was selected by the Art Market Guide as one of the "Top 35 Galleries in America" (1998). The gallery has participated in a number of major international fairs, including: Art Chicago International Art Fair, Art Cologne (Germany), Gramercy International Art Fair,  The Texas Contemporary Art Fair (Houston), The Dallas Art Fair, The Sydney Contemporary Art Fair (Australia), Miami Project, The Moving Image Video Art Fair (New York, Istanbul, and London editions), artMRKT San Francisco, PULSE Art Fairs (Miami, London, Los Angeles, and New York), NADA Art Fair Miami, Scope Art Fair (Miami, Los Angeles, and New York), and the Armory Show. Moore also served on the PULSE Advisory and Selection Committee from it’s inception in 2004 until 2011.

Mark Moore also pioneered the development of the contemporary art market in Korea over the last twenty-five years, producing inaugural Korean exhibitions for artists such as Ed Ruscha, Christopher Wool, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, John McCracken, Sol Lewitt and Gerhard Richter. In addition, the gallery has done extensive work in the secondary market, mounting exhibitions in Seoul featuring Agnes Martin, Sigmar Polke, Bruce Nauman, Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Robert Therrien, Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, , Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Irwin and Terry Winters, among others. The organization of exhibitions and the building of major private and public global collections has become a major function of the Mark Moore Gallery. One of the most notable achievements of the Mark Moore Gallery was the orchestration and organization of the 1998 Mark Di Suvero sculpture exhibition. Produced in concert with the Orange County Museum of Art, this was the largest exhibition of outdoor sculpture by Mark Di Suvero in the United States in nearly twenty-five years.

Mark Moore Gallery also pioneered the development of the contemporary art market in Korea over the last twenty-five years, producing inaugural Korean exhibitions for artists such as Ed Ruscha, Christopher Wool, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, John McCracken, Sol Lewitt and Gerhard Richter. In addition, the gallery has done extensive work in the secondary market, mounting exhibitions in Seoul featuring Agnes Martin, Sigmar Polke, Bruce Nauman, Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Robert Therrien, Ad Reinhardt, Jasper Johns, , Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Irwin and Terry Winters, among others. The organization of exhibitions and the building of major private and public global collections has become a major function of the Mark Moore Gallery.  In the 33 years of art programming and exhibitions, The Mark Moore Gallery focused on the development of emerging artists and has gained a solid international reputation as one of the premier sites for new talent. Over the last three decades the Mark Moore Gallery has included or debuted the work of numerous young artists in the early stages of their careers – many of whom have later gone on to tremendous international success.

Mark Moore and his wife, Hilarie, head the Moore Family Trust and The Mark & Hilarie Moore Collection, and are active in supporting the arts in Southern California.  They are major donors of contemporary art to a number of regional  museums, including the Orange County Museum of Art; Laguna Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Brooklyn Art Museum; University of California Irvine; University of California, Riverside; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art; Portland Art Museum; Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art (Utah State University); Honolulu Museum of Art; The McNay Art Museum (San Antonio); The Museum of Art and History (Lancaster, CA); Milwaukee Art Museum; Las Vegas Art Museum; The Sheldon Museum (University of Nebraska); The Tang Museum (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts); The Rhode Island School of Design; University of Tennessee, Chattanooga (Cress Gallery of Art); The Weisman Art Museum (Malibu); Madison Museum of Contemporary Art; Monterey Museum of Art; Norton Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; Blanton Museum of Art (University of Texas at Austin); The Berkeley Art Museum; Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento);  The Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT); The Denver Art Museum; The Akron Art Museum; The Perez Art Museum Miami; The Norton Museum of Art (Miami); The Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo); The Smithsonian American Art Museum; and, The J. Paul Getty Museum.  

Mark Moore currently serves on the University of California, Irvine's School of Fine Arts Dean’s Advisory Committee and the UCI Art Alliance Board as a special advisor. He is the recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Alumni Award for the School of Fine Arts (2001) and is also a Lauds and Laurels award winner (2002).