Moya Devine was born in Neuilly sur Seine France and grew up in Louisiana and California before moving to Hawaii where she spent the rest of her adolescent through college years. She attended the University of Hawaii earning her B.A. degree in Drama with a minor in Dance. It was at this time that she developed her love of movement.

Following graduation she moved to to San Francisco starting a small dance and performance company, Brand X Theater, with her partner at the time, Barb Roesch. Her award winning work focused on themes of gender and the body. Ms Devine went on to work as Business manager for Franklin Furnace Archive Inc. a performance space and artist book archive in New York City, Development Director of Art ReGrup in San Francisco and Board of Directors member for the San Diego Women’s Caucus for Art. She is currently on the Membership Committee of FIG, a San Diego group committed to creating visibility for artists identifying as female.

Ms. Devine studied visual art at the State University of New York Purchase and SUNY Westchester School of the Arts. She completed her multi subject teaching program at the State University of California San Marcos, her art methodology at Humboldt State and her clear credential program at the University of California San Diego. She currently teaches art and graphic design in alternative high school settings within the public school system. She has completed residencies at the San Diego Museum of Art and Atlantic Center for the Arts and her work has been shown internationally at museums, colleges, universities, art spaces, libraries and galleries. She currently resides in Silicon Valley.

Venues have included:

- Oceanside Museum of Art

-Atlantic Center for the Arts

-San Diego Art Institute

-Sushi Performance and Visual Art

-Earl and Birdie Taylor Public Library

-The Women’s Museum of California

-The La Jolla Athenaeum

-The Lyceum Theater

- Luis de Jesus Seminal Projects

-University of Central Florida

-The Vienna Project-

-The Astor Center for Food and Wine NYC

-South Texas College

-University of Texas Pan American

-Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico

-State University of New York Buffalo

-University of Seattle

-Cannon Art Gallery

-Art Produce

-Festival Tabor, Czech Republic

-Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Brooklyn

-The Billboard Art Project, New Orleans

-The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Michigan

-Krogen Amerika, Sweden

-Athenaeum Center, Bread and Salt, Barrio Logan, San Diego

-Grossmont College, Hyde Art Gallery, San Diego

-Call and Response, Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles

-San Diego Central Library, Reading Through Viewing

-Martha Pace Swift Gallery San Diego “That’s What She Said”

-H.E. Art Gallery 416 26th St. Oakland

Art and Nature are intertwined and humans can not live without either
— Moya Devine