Interview with Moses Hamborg

Dear Patrons,

This week we are delighted to share with you an interview with FAA Alum Moses Hamborg.

Graduate of the Painting Program, Moses was recently profiled in the art and culture magazine Frontrunner. Touching on his upbringing, academic training, inspirations, and goals, this interview by Shana Meth Mason offers a complete picture of the painter, best known for his portraits.

Moses Hamborg

Aslan

Oil on jute

30 x 40 in.

2021

“I have massive respect for the longstanding tradition of oil painting, and being able to use this visual language to explore ideas. I’m drawn to humans, I always have been, and sometimes I feel more drawn to humans than I do to painting. There are images, ideas of motifs that I want to be able to execute and explore, but for the most part it’s a pretty natural flow of being inspired by the people I’m surrounded by and trying to capture something about them.“

Click here to read the full interview on Frontrunner magazine!

After training at the FAA Moses continued his studies in Florence and has now opened a studio in Los Angeles California. Additionally Moses recently completed an artist residency at Black Rock Senegal in Dakar.

Paintings by Moses Hamborg. From left to right: Assiatou, Oil on jute, 90 x 120 cm, 2021 and Mariam Moumi, Oil on jute, 140 x 180 cm, 2021

"Named for the volcanic rocks that blanket its shoreline, Black Rock is a multidisciplinary artist-in-residence program founded by renowned artist Kehinde Wiley in 2019. The residency brings together international artists to live and work in Dakar, Senegal for 1-3 month stays. The Black Rock compound design was conceived by Senegalese architect Abib Djenne with interior collaboration between Wiley, Fatiya Djenne, and Aissa Dione. The complex includes a residence and studio space for Wiley along with three single-occupancy residency apartments with adjacent studio spaces. Our mission is to support new artistic creation through collaborative exchange and to incite change in the global discourse about Africa."

To learn more Black Rock Senegal visit: www.blackrocksenegal.org/our-story

More about Moses:

Moses Hamborg is a fine artist based in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in Huntington Beach, California he moved to Italy in 2014 to learn the techniques of the Old Masters. After graduating from The Florence Academy of Art he was awarded the Artist in Residence position. Following his residency he took on portrait commissions in Europe and the US. He furthered his classical training at Charles H. Cecil Studios. In addition to exhibiting in group shows and having work in private collections across Europe and the United States Moses also has work in in the permanent collections of the New Salem Museum of Art, USA and the Manifattura Tabacchi, Italy. Moses was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America in 2019 and exhibited in BP portrait award 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

View more of Moses's work here:

Website: www.moseshamborg.com

Instagram: @moseshamborg