As the first openly gay Black male gallerist in San Franscisco, Moore opened his gallery based on the belief that the art world should be accessible. Moore has lived in the Tenderloin neighborhood since he moved to the Bay Area nine years ago, and founded his gallery in 2023 with a program centered around BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and women artists.
Moore began his career in the nonprofit sector with roles at United Way Worldwide and Out & Equal before joining the Rosenberg Foundation, a nonprofit that works towards racial and economic justice in California. While at Rosenberg, he had the chance to dive into the Bay Area art scene, proposing that he curate a selection of local artists, such as
Lucky Rapp and
Lena Gustafson, at the foundation’s headquarters. In 2020, Moore set up the online journal
ARTUCATED to share art and stories from BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and women artists from around the world, and by 2021, he took a leap of faith to fully enter the art world and joined the Institute of Contemporary Art in San Francisco prior to opening his own Gallery designed to rapidly adapt and engage with the evolving cultural landscape.
