David Moos - About - Independent Curators International

David Moos is the president and founder of David Moos Art Advisory, a bespoke firm placing museum calibre works in private and public collections in the Canada and the United States. Prior to founding DMAA in 2011, Moos was the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2004-2011) and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (1998-2004). He received a BA from McGill University, Montreal, and a MA and PhD in Art History from Columbia University, New York. He has organized numerous traveling exhibitions and retrospectives, including IAIN BAXTER&: Works 1958-2011 (2011-2012), Julian Schnabel: Art and Film (2010), Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization? (2010), The Shape of Colour: Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005 (2005), Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture (2003), Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City (2001), and Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity (2000), among others. He chaired the Art Committee for Public Places for the City of Toronto from 2006-2011. In 2020 he co-founded Museum Exchange, the first digital platform for art donations, allowing museums to access works of art being offered by collectors outside their established donor base.