Dominic Musa (b. 1989) lives and works in Paterson, New Jersey. He received an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from the SVA - School of Visual Arts, In New York. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Y2K Group, New York, NY; Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK; Helena Anrather, New York, NY; Harkawik, New York, NY; Underdonk; Brooklyn, NY; Galerie Nicolas Robert, Montreal, Canada; and Andrea Festa Fine Arts, Rome, Italy. In 2022 Musa was an artist in residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME and a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.

Dominic Musa’s paintings fuse his personal experiences via invention, peripheral observation, and recollection with the collective psyche. The paintings pull from personal and found photographs utilizing creation, erasure, time, and ultimately visual meditation. This taps into the subconscious psychological thread grouping the perceived personal, collective ideas and images by forming an internal discourse from the artist onto each viewer. This invites the viewer into Musa’s visual worlds and to participate in a common dialogue through a continual communion or network.

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