Mo was born in 1969 in Singapore. He lives and works in Paris.
After Trans-Europe, Coast to Coast and Brooklyn, chapters of his uninterrupted travel around the planet, Mo today presents us the city where he settled in 2000: Paris. Like a treasure hunt, he presents us the capital, district by district, multiplying points of view and low-angle shots. Mo makes us rediscover characteristics details of the Haussmann buildings: alignment of high windows, continuous balconies, cornices, sloping roofs pierced by dormer windows… His chromatic pallet explores the pearl tones of the zinc bathed by a cold light. Different shades of blue going to stormy grey, enhanced here and there with red or yellow, are the Ariane’s thread of this new Parisian series.
The aesthetic search for MO is about impressions that an urban subject can create and cause on the spectator. With this intention, the colour is of primary importance. His pallet seems to be reduced to some colours, dark and deaf, those of the ground. The light is always present, strong and contrasted. It insufflates life and energy to these modern landscapes, still accentuated by the opposition between the dense colours and large tracts of white space which cover the background of the canvas. As if the subject and the time which is referred to it, were suspended. The frequent run-outs evoke the taste of the artist for traditional Chinese watercolour painting and suggest with a certain air of melancholy the idea of continuity and the verticality of the city.
Solo exhibitions:
2018
Paris… Galerie Artima – Paris
2015
Paris – London – New York – Galerie Artima – Paris
2013
Paris – Galerie Artima – Paris
2009
International Business Traveller – Addict galerie – Paris
2008
Brooklyn – Galerie Artima – Paris
2007
Metropolis – SG Gallery – Alliance Francaise – Singapour
Metropolis : Godzilla Ville – Addict Galerie – Paris
2006
Trans-Europe – Galerie Artima – Paris
Metropolis : New York City – Galerie Allanix – Genève
2005
Coast to Coast – Galerie Artima – Paris
Pavillon de la France – Expo Universelle – Nagoya
2003
Paris – East West – Galerie Dépôt Matignon – Paris
1998
Mitsukoshi – Nagoya
Group Show:
2018
AAF Hamburg – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Battersea – Aperture Contemporary
2017
AAF Hamburg – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Amsterdam – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Stockholm – Aperture Contemporary
AAF NYC – Aperture Contemporary
AAF London – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Brussels – Aperture Contemporary
2016
Aperture Contemporary – exposition collective – Saint Ouen
AAF London – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Brussels – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Amsterdam – Aperture Contemporary
Les Puces en Lumière – Aperture Contemporary – Saint Ouen
AAF NYC – Aperture Contemporary
AAF London – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Brussels – Aperture Contemporary
AAF NYC – Aperture Contemporary
2014
AAF Singapore – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Amsterdam – Aperture Contemporary
AAF NYC – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Hong Kong – Aperture Contemporary
AAF Brussels – Aperture Contemporary
2013
AAF Battersea – Galerie Artima – London (GB)
Exposition d’été – Galerie Artima – Paris
AAF Battersea – Andrew Hood Gallery – London (GB)
2012
AAF Hampstead – Galerie Olivier Waltman – London (GB)
2010
Biennale de Marina Grande – Portugal (P)
Art Miami – Galerie Waltman Ortega fine art (USA)
Art Elysées – Galerie Artima – Paris
Waltman Ortega fine art — Miami (USA)
Art of the 3 Kingdoms – Shun Art & Design Gallery — Shanghai (CHN)
Mo et Iku Kageyama – La Fonderie
London Art Fair – Galerie Olivier Waltman — (GB)
2009
Galerie Artima – Paris
Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris
2008
Art Ireland – Dublin (IR)
Salon de l’Art Accessible – Geneva (CH)
2007
Bridge Art Fair – Galerie Olivier Waltman – London (GB)
MAC 2000 – Paris
St-Art – Contemporary Art Fair of Strasbourg – Galerie Artima – Paris
Lille Art Fair – Galerie Artima – Paris
2006
Addict Galerie – Paris
2005
St-Art Contemporary Art Fair of Strasbourg – Galerie Artima – Paris
Art Forum – Montreux (CH)
2004
Art International Zurich (CH)
2003
Salon d’Automne – Espace d’Auteuil – Paris
Kunst-Event – Anvers (B)
2002
Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture à l’Eau – Paris
Art 2000 – Espace d’Auteuil – Paris
2001
Salon National des Beaux-Arts – Carrousel du Louvre – Paris
NWS Annual Juried Show – Los Angeles (USA)
Art Associations:
1999
International Association of Arts – UNESCO
2000
Maison des Artistes Association – France
2001
National Watercolor Society — (USA)
Education:
1993
Graphic Design Degree in Singapore
Collections:
Ambassade de France, Singapour
Fondation Colas, Paris
Renzo Piano Building workshop, Paris