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Algeria Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico Education 2004 California State University Hayward, Graduate Study in Museum Studies 1992 CCI, Georgetown University School of Linguistics, Washington DC Graduate Degrees Interpreting and Translation (E-F-S) 1982 BFA Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC DEUG Anglo-American Literature and Civilization, University of Caen, France Undergraduate Studies, Art and Anthropology, Montgomery College, Maryland 1981 Atelier Pierre Brignol, Lauragais, France Grants and Awards 2021 Artist-in-Residence, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA 2020 Artist-in-Residence, Millay Colony 2019 Artist Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Artist-in-Residence, Green Olive Arts, Tétouan, Morocco 2018 Artist-in-Residence, Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY 2013 Tupelo Press Poetry Residency, Truchas, NM 1992 Lorraine Bernstein Award for Painting, Corcoran School of Art, DC 1991 Artist-in-Residence, Institut Français du Royaume Uni, London, UK Selected Solo Exhibitions 2022 Mokha Laget: Tesseract, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog Mokha Laget: Perceptualism, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Cetner, Washington, D.C. 2021 Improvisations, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY 2020 Capriccios, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2019 Spatial Chromatics, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog Alcoves 20/20, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM Polychrome Polygons, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY 2018 Recent Works, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Spatial Luminance, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2017 In Shape, In Color, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Color into Space, Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, Dallas, TX 2014 Chromatic Constructs, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2013 Color Walk, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2010 Crux, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 2002 Sub Rosa, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2000 Codes and Notations, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1999 More Poetics of Noumenalism, Whelan Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1998 Circumnavigations, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC 1994 Schemata, Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD 1991 Morphologies, Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, DC 1990 Materia Prima, IFRU, Galerie Matisse, London, UK Archéographies, Galerie Métamorphose, Paris, France 1989 Dream Poetics, The Kunstraum, Washington, DC 1988 Threads & Labyrinths, Carega Gallery, Washington, DC 1987 Impulse & Reverie, Carega Gallery, Washington, DC Selected Group Exhibitions 2022 The Power of Print, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2021 Mass Pop, Mass MoCA Residency, North Adams, MA 2020 Landfall Press: Five decades of Printmaking, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Isolation / Inspiration, New Mexico Museum of Art, Online Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM Hello World: An act of Global Solidarity, Trans cultural exchange, Global Virtual Art Project Quintetto d’Arte, curated by Giorgio di Genova, Online Exhibition/Italy 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog 2019 Made in Paint, The Golden Foundation SACC Gallery, New Berlin, NY Summer Group, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2018 Unmoored Geographies, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France Full Circle: Hue and Saturation in the Washington Color School, Brady Gallery at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 2017 EXPOSANTS 2016, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France The Shapeshifters, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Origins in Geometry, Museum of Geometric & Madi Art, Dallas, TX Madi: Matter in time, Art Academy of Lecce, Lecce, Italy The Shape and the Colour, University of Texas, Amarillo, TX 2016 The Shape of Things to Come, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston,TX Chicago Art Fair exhibited by Landfall Press 2015 Symphony of Color, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe, NM TCAF exhibited by Sonja Roesch Gallery, Houston, TX Salon des Arts Contemporains, Petit Palais, Paris, France 2014 IFPDA exhibited by Landfall Press, New York City, NY TCAF exhibited by Sonja Roesch, Gallery, Houston, TX Santa Fe Art Fair exhibited by Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM Washington Art Matters 1940-1980, Katzen Art Center at AU Museum, Washington, DC Select Fair NYC exhibited by UNIT, New York City, NY 2013 The Enduring Modernist Aesthetics in NM, Santa Fe Arts Commission, Santa Fe, NM Salon d’Automne: L’Alternative, Petit Palais, Paris, France 2011 Biennale of Art and Literature II, Cairo, Egypt Salon de Sarria VI, Centro UNESCO de Sarria, Galicia, Spain Tohoku Relief, Art Sun Shiwory Gallery, Kurashiki, Japan Libre comme l’Art, Salon Espace Champerret, Paris, France 2007 Florence Biennale of Contemporary Art, Florence, Italy 2006 Chamalières, Centre d’Art Contemporain, France Salon d’Automne, Espace Montreuil, Paris, France 2002 BFA 25, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, France 1999 Objects of Desire, David Adamson Gallery, Washington DC 1997 In Print, Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, NC 1995 Gallery Selection, Troyer Fitzpatrick Lassman, Washington DC 1992 Hemicycle Inaugural Exhibit, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC Revered Earth, American University Museum, Washington DC 1991 Gallery Artists, Gallery K, London, UK 1990 Solstice, Provincetown Art Museum, Provincetown, MA 1989 Three Americas, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France Art of the Matter, BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA Torn Visions, Window Box Gallery, New York City, NY Chromatic Inversions, Billman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986 Handmade Books, West Gallery, Denton, TX Four Arts, Tallahassee Institute for Contemporary Art, Tallahassee, FL Fiber X, The Arts Center, Iowa City, IA Del Bello Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1984 NY-DC Collaboration with Gene Davis, The Ritz, Washington, DC InterDada, The 16th Note, San Francisco, CA 1981 Post Lateralism, Jack Rasmussen Gallery, Washington, DC Commissions & Editions 2018 Northern Light, part 2 of atrium painting, Department of State, Art in Embassies, Nouakchott, Mauritania Sam and Adele Golden Foundation artist residency, New Berlin, NY 2017 Southern Wing, Johnson Law Group, Dallas, TX Springboard West, The Medical Center, Dallas, TX Off the Grid, portfolio of 7 lithographs, ed. 30, Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Northern Light, Department of State, Art in Embassies, Nouakchott, Mauritania 2015 Pliage, hand-pulled lithograph, ed. 20, Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM 2014 Homage to the Wedge, lithograph, ed. 20, Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM Blackjack, hand-pulled lithograph, ed. 40, Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM 2007 Color Field Remix on 8th St, DCAH Public Art Commission, Washington, DC Selected Collections Museum of Geometric and Madi Art, Dallas, TX Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS Art in Embassies, The U.S. Department of State The Artery Collection, Washington, D.C. George Washington University, Washington, DC The National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC Delta Airlines Collaborative Work 2018 Reviewer: Anne Truitt at the NGA (DC), The New Art Examiner, May/June, 2018 2017 Guest Curator, Museum of Geometric & Madi Art, Joel Froment & Elvira Daeter (catalog) 2013 Tupelo Press Poetry Residency, Truchas, NM 2012 Interview: Talking art criticism with Derek Guthrie, THE Magazine/Sept. Santa Fe, NM 2009 Catalog essay, Derek Guthrie at Finlandia University, MI 2008 Performer, WaterWeavingWomen, with D. Mazeaud & E. Wiseman, Santa Fe, NM 2004-2012 Art Restoration Specialist, Majuka Studios, La Cienega, NM 2004-2006 Assistant Curator, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM 2003-2004 Archival Intern, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM 1999 Translator (into English) Le Livre de Saphir by G. Sinoué (Amarna Books) 1993 Translator (into French) Buddhism, Wisdom and Faith (Sutra Committee, Canada) 1992-present International Simultaneous Interpreter, Department of State 1992 Project Coordinator, Contemporary Art Exchange US/Africa 1991 Performer, Resonant Environment, R. Butler, McLean Project for the Arts, VA Curator, Metaphoric Structures, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, MD 1990 Fine Arts Instructor, Maryland College of Arts & Design Vision and Revision in DC Art, The New Art Examiner, Feb 1990, p. 30-34. Curator, Detritus & the Poetics of Noumenalism, Gallery 10, WDC 1991 Metaphoric Structures: Science, Symbols & Matter, catalog essay, Rockville, MD 1989 Co-Chair, The Artists Congress, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Co-Curator with J.W. Mahoney, Elegies, Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC Co-Chair, Coalition of Washington Artists, WDC 1988 Exhibition Specialist, National Museum of American Art & The National Learning Center Curator, Permanent Collection Community Center for Creative Non-Violence, WDC 1986-1988 Public Relations Director, Gallery 10, Washington, DC 1985-1986 Archival Specialist-Artists Estates, Washington, DC 1984-1991 Theatre: Set Designer, Performer, Stage Director, Washington, DC 1981-1984 Studio Assistant to Gene Davis, Washington Color School Painter, Washington, DC Bibliography Abatemarco, Michael. "Mokha Laget, Jennifer Joseph & Gloria Klein at David Richard," The Santa Fe New Mexican, September 29, 2017. Cleve, Emily Van. "Home," Santa Fe Arts Journal, September 03, 2017. David Richard Gallery, “In Shape, In Color”, exhibition catalogue, Santa Fe, NM, September, 2017. Cipriani, Carmelo and Costanzo, Bica and Laura Cristina. Madi Materia nel tempo (exhibition catalogue). ExConservatorio de Lecce, Italy, 2017. Catlin, Roger. “The Painter Who Earned His Stripes,” Smithsonian Magazine, Jan., 2017. Museum of Geometric and Madi Art. "Mokha Laget: Color Into Space". Essay by Eleanor Heartney. Museum of Geometric and Madi Art, Dallas, TX, 2016. Burgos, Sarah, “Mokha Laget: Color into Space,” Dallas Morning News, July 29, 2016. Zastudil, Nancy. "Critics Picks: Houston," Art Ltd. Magazine (online), September 1, 2014. Davis, Kathryn M. “Mokha Laget’s Poetics of Color,” TREND MAGAZINE, Summer 2014. Jones, Caroline A. Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2006. (citation) Cohen, Jean Lawlor. Washington Art Matters: Art life in the Capital, 1940–1990. Washington Arts Museum, 2013. Abatemarco, Michael. “Implied Spaces,” Pasatiempo - The New Mexican, July 5, 2013. Fairfield, Douglas. “Art in Review,” The New Mexican, May 10-16, 2013. Carver, Jon. “Cumulus Skies,” THE Magazine, May, 2013. Ross, Alex. “Mokha Laget,” THE Magazine, Feb/Mar., 2011. Molla, Rani. “The X Factor,” Santa Fe Reporter, Jan. 12-18, 2011. Hammond, Harmony. “Compelling Exhibition,” Journal North Santa Fe, Jan. 21, 2011. Salon d’Automne. Salon d’Automne 2010 (exhibition catalog). Salon d’Automne, Paris, 2010. Santa Fean Magazine, “Top Talent,” Santa Fean Magazine, June/July 2008. Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Città Di Firenze, 2007 (exhibition catalog), Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Città Di Firenze, 2007. CBS Sunday Morning, Color Field Street Painting, August, 2007 Salon d’Automne. Salon d’Automne 2006 (exhibition catalog). Salon d’Automne, Paris, 2006. Salon d’Automne. Salon d’Automne 2002 (exhibition catalog). Salon d’Automne, Paris, 2002. Armitage, Diane. “Mokha Laget: Sub Rosa,” THE Magazine, July 2002. Salon d’Automne. Salon d’Automne 2000 (exhibition catalog). Salon d’Automne, Paris, 2000. Smith, Craig. “From a Hilltop to the Scenery of the Mind,” The New Mexican, April 23, 1999. Jarrett, Dennis. “Maps of the Invisible,” The Santa Fe Reporter, Vol 25, April, 1999. Shannon, Joe. “Mokha Laget,” Art in America, June, 1998. Mahoney, JW. “Mokha Laget: Circumnavigations,” Washington Review, Aug/Sept., 1998. Dorsey, J. “Schemata,” The Baltimore Sun, Aug., 1994. Mahoney, JW. “DC Dreaming,” Art in America, Feb., 1991. Welzenbach, M. “Science & Art,” The Washington Post, Oct. 6, 1990. Addams Allen, Jane. “The Urge to Merge,” Washington City Paper, June 8-14, 1990. Zamora, R. “Archéographies: A voyage through Time,” Agence France Presse, June, 1990. Holtzman, K. “Conceptual Art in the 90’s,” Critical Mass (exhibition catalog), April, 1990. Thorson, A. “Castoffs at the Center of a Local Aesthetic,” Washington Times, Jan. 11, 1990. “Emerging Art of the 80’s,” Art News, 1988. Collage (exhibition catalog) Maryland College of Art & Design, 1987.