Grant Mooney

26 Sep-7 Dec 2025

Overview

Occupying intermediary positions among abstract, autonomous, and site-specific, Grant Mooney’s sculpture has an acute concern for tactility and connectivity, while straddling associations of studio craft, material history, and site-responsive gesture. Informed by foundational metalsmithing techniques and a knowledge of metal alloys, his works examine sensory and physical states, and the frictions and alchemies at play within. For his Chisenhale Gallery commission, Mooney will explore a series of material behaviours that interact with the immediate environment and infrastructure of the gallery’s building.

Biography
Grant Mooney lives and works in New York. Selected exhibitions include: calcis, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, 2024; reserves, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, 2024; Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2024; Radial, Progetto, Puglia, 2023; I heard myself close my eyes, then open them, Braunsfelder, Cologne, 2022; four x four, Lumber Room, Portland, 2022; The Inconstant World, Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2021; Some of the Hole, Simian, Copenhagen, 2020; In Practice: Total Disbelief, Sculpture Center, New York, 2020.