Joe Moss

Joe Moss is a highly intelligent artist working with material and ideas that I'm not entirely familiar with. He was spotted by our Deputy Director Tim Dixon at his graduation show at the Slade in 2024. He very recently had his first show with us - it was a compelling use of film, suspense and space. The mosquito-like sound of the choreographed drones created an eerie poetry. It knocked my socks off and I am very excited that the gallery is now representing him.

Robin Klassnik, Director, Matt’s Gallery

Using techniques of assemblage, Joe Moss creates sculpture, video and events where competing fictions collapse into one another. Informed by networked culture, Moss’ work situates the viewer within thin fictional structures to be recognised and read as material. By skirting and exposing the edges, Moss reveals structures of artifice through moments of contrast or revelation. Moss’ work considers the increasing pace, overlap and repetition in our everyday encounters with fiction.

Joe Moss had his first institutional show Automated Fantasy Procedure at Matt’s Gallery in January 2026. Continuing a legacy of site-specific production central to Matt’s Gallery’s programme since the 1980s, Moss took up residence at the gallery from November 2025, developing the work in the space where he worked with synchronised palm-sized research drones, looping videos, aluminium section, obsolete 3D printers, salvaged electronics, miniaturised sets and green-screen filmmaking techniques blending the virtual and physical spaces of the work. The exhibition continued and expanded on his engagement with what theorists Leila A. Villaverde and Roymieco A. Carter describe as ‘the proleptic’: a collapse of past, present and future in which fiction, reality and ideas of progress fold into one another. 

Joe Moss graduated from the Slade Media MFA in June 2024 and was selected for New Contemporaries in 2023. Moss’ work has been shown at Camden Arts Centre, NN Contemporary, the ICA, Well Projects, Giant Gallery, and Marytwo Switzerland, with a forthcoming solo exhibition at Chemist and inclusion in a group show at the Henry Moore Institute. Between 2019-2022 Joe Moss was part of the Conditions Studio programme.