BIOGRAPHY
Moira Bateman is an American artist based in Minneapolis who works in site responsive, ecologically based, mixed media and textile constructions. Bateman's early work in landscape ecology and native plant community reclamation projects fuels her current practice working in collaboration with these natural ecosystems, the elements, and chance. Bateman’s exhibitions include DeVos Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota Marine Art Museum, Science Museum of Minnesota, Bowery Gallery, 108/Contemporary, ecoartspace, The Integral Museum of Akademgorodok, McKnight Foundation Lobby Gallery, Dreamsong Art, Textile Center, University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota College of Design, Carnegie Art Center, Instinct Gallery, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Grand Marais Art Colony, and Form+Content Gallery. Bateman has received awards from McKnight Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board and Grand Marais Art Colony. Residencies include Art Omi: Artists, Kunstnarhuset Messen Norway, Grand Marais Art Colony, and St. Croix Watershed Research Station. Bateman holds a Master’s of Landscape Architecture from the University of Minnesota.
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Solo and two-person exhibitions
Form+Content Gallery Sund (Notes From the Sea) Solo Exhibition, Minneapolis MN 2025
Kunstnarhuset Messen, Residency Exhibition, Ålvik Norway 2024
Art Omi, Residency Exhibition, Ghent, NY 2024
Textile Center, Mary Giles Gallery The 2022 McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship Exhibition Etudes: Watersheds, Bogs, Kayaks Solo Exhibition, Minneapolis MN 2023
Form+Content Gallery Bog Etudes Solo Exhibition, Minneapolis MN 2023
Bowery Gallery By Way of Water Solo Exhibition, New York, NY 2019
North Hennepin Community College Making Alice Solo Exhibition, Brooklyn Park MN 2018
McKnight Foundation Lobby Gallery The Hand of the River Two-person Exhibition, Minneapolis MN 2016-2017
Minnesota Marine Art Museum The Hand of the River Two-person Exhibition, Winona MN 2016
Phipps Center for the Arts Memorarae: Medial in Nature Solo Exhibition, Hudson Wisconsin 2015
University of Minnesota's College of Design Elements in Material Solo Exhibition, Minneapolis MN 2015
Transient Gallery Trace/Retrace Solo Exhibition, Des Moines IA 2014
Flow Art Space momenta animale Solo Exhibition, St. Paul MN 2013
Select group exhibitions
Galleri Semminsen, Oslo Norway, 2025
Science Museum of Minnesota, Pine Needles, St. Paul MN 2025
Dreamsong Art Groundwork, Minneapolis MN 2023
FOMA and ecoartspace, Some Kind of Nature with Juror Dominque Mazeaud, Santa Fe NM 2023
DeVos Art Museum North of the 45th with Juror Michael Andrews, Marquette MI 2023
108/Contemorary Safekeeping, Surface Design Association Group Exhibition with Juror, Anita Fields, Tulsa OK 2023
Minnesota Museum of American Art Many Waters Juried Biennial, St Paul MN 2023
The Integral Museum of Akademgorodok Sustainable Acts Virtual Exhibition and Artist Talk, Novosibirsk Siberia 2021
Science Museum of Minnesota St. Croix Watershed Research Station Residency Exhibition St Paul MN 2021
Grand Marais Art Colony But it Was Still There Water Cycle Residency Exhibition (Four-Person), Grand Marais MN 2021
Public Functionary Wintertide NEMAA Juried Group Exhibition, Minneapolis MN 2019
University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment Sustainable Acts Small Group Invitational Exhibition, St Paul MN 2015
Minneapolis St. Paul Airport Renewal Small Group Invitational, Bloomington MN 2014
Textile Center Joan Mondale Gallery Jerome Foundation Grant Recipient Exhibition (Four-Person), Minneapolis MN 2013
Instinct Gallery Remnants and Curiosities Small Group Invitational, Minneapolis MN 2013
Artist Residencies
ART OMI: ARTISTS (2024)
KH MESSEN NORWAY (2024)
GRAND MARAIS ART COLONY WATER CYCLE INVITATIONAL (2019)
NORTH HENNEPIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE THEATER DEPARTMENT SCENIC DESIGN (2018)
ST. CROIX WATERSHED RESEARCH STATION PINE NEEDLES (2018)
Awards
MCKNIGHT FOUNDATION FIBER ARTIST FELLOWSHIP (2022)
MINNESOTA STATE ARTS BOARD VISUAL ARTISTS INITIATIVE GRANT (2014)
JEROME FOUNDATION TEXTILE FIBER ARTIST PROJECT GRANT (2013)
Public Art
North Hennepin Community College Transform Fine Arts Building Public Mural, Brooklyn Park MN 2020
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Field to Table Landscape Sculpture Installation 2010