Moses Hamborg is a figurative painter based in Los Angeles, California, and Dakar, Senegal. Born and raised in Southern California, he moved to Italy to study drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art and Charles H. Cecil Studios. His work is held in private collections across Europe, the United States, and West Africa, as well as the permanent collections of the New Salem Museum of Art, USA, and the Manifattura Tabacchi, Italy. Hamborg was awarded a Certificate of Excellence from the Portrait Society of America in 2019 and exhibited in the BP Portrait Award 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery, London. In 2021 he was accepted into Kehinde Wiley’s artist residency, Black Rock Senegal. Hamborg subsequently exhibited with the 14th DAK’ART Biennale in 2022, followed by the Dak’Art OFF and the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture “Trade Winds” in 2024. Moses was the inaugural artist in residence at Pearl Lam’s 70 Square Metres, in Shanghai, where he presented his first solo exhibition “Taxon” and exhibited at the West Bund Art Fair.
