Mark Moore

Mark Moore is the Owner/Director of Mark Moore Fine Art Advisory.

During his 35 years as an art dealer and consultant years as an art dealer and consultant and founder of The Works Gallery (Long Beach), Mark Moore Gallery (Culver City), and now Mark Moore Fine Art (Orange County), 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. 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).

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 pioneered the development of the contemporary art market in Korea over the last 35 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 Fine Art.

The Mark Moore Gallery has 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 has fashioned an international reputation for discovering numerous young artists in the early stages of their careers – many of whom have later gone on to tremendous international success. The Mark Moore Gallery currently represents nearly thirty distinquished emerging and mid-career artists.