May 2024 in residency Vladem Contemporary, Santa Fe NM
Animated Visual Score, IAIA Digital Dome, with Morgan Barnard, NM, May 2024
Mokha Laget is a New Mexico-based painter known for her geometric abstractions on shaped canvas and visual score drawings. A passionate colorist, Mokha was born in North Africa, of a region of radiant light and dramatic geographical contrasts, at a time
of deep political instability.
Her work explores the “gentle chaos” of perceptual and spatial ambiguity related to her sense of displacement from repeated moves throughout her life.
Initially trained in old master’s techniques in the south of France, she went on to study Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. She subsequently obtained a graduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in simultaneous interpreting and has spent much of the past 25 years working in parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
She currently works as an interdisciplinary artist, creating animated visual scores which she performs collaboratively. In 2019, she was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant. She is a past recipient of several prestigious art residencies including as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Mass MoCA, Millay Arts, the Golden Foundation.
She has exhibited consistently for the past 35 years both nationally and internationally and is featured in numerous museum collections. Her work is actively represented by 5 major galleries in the US. A 10-year survey exhibition of her work opened in June 2022 at the American University Museum in Washington DC.
Currently she lives and works in an off-grid studio in the mountains of New Mexico.
of deep political instability.
Her work explores the “gentle chaos” of perceptual and spatial ambiguity related to her sense of displacement from repeated moves throughout her life.
Initially trained in old master’s techniques in the south of France, she went on to study Fine Arts at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington DC. She subsequently obtained a graduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in simultaneous interpreting and has spent much of the past 25 years working in parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
She currently works as an interdisciplinary artist, creating animated visual scores which she performs collaboratively. In 2019, she was awarded a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant. She is a past recipient of several prestigious art residencies including as Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, Mass MoCA, Millay Arts, the Golden Foundation.
She has exhibited consistently for the past 35 years both nationally and internationally and is featured in numerous museum collections. Her work is actively represented by 5 major galleries in the US. A 10-year survey exhibition of her work opened in June 2022 at the American University Museum in Washington DC.
Currently she lives and works in an off-grid studio in the mountains of New Mexico.
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