Painter, printmaker, and performance-artist Ayanah Moor was born in Norfolk, VA. She received a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, and an MFA from Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Moor's work can be found in the collections of the Soho House Art Collective, London; Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD; and Erie Art Museum, PA, among many others.
Moor is a tenured associate professor and chair of the Department of Print Media at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records