Overview

Born in California and raised between Ghana and Southern California, Sumney is a singer, writer, and multidisciplinary storyteller. 

Moses Sumney (b. 1992) studied creative writing and poetry at UCLA. In 2019, he received a SXSW special jury award for his video compositions and was awarded a Macdowell Fellowship for Artistic Excellence. In 2020, his first published essay, “Stateside Statelessness,” appeared in Fight of the Century (Simon & Schuster), an immigration-centric anthology edited by Ayelet Waldman and Puliter-Prizer winner Michael Chabon. Sumney’s critically acclaimed 2020 sophomore double album græ is described as a “conceptual patchwork about greyness”. Sumney's work has been exhibited in New York and at the Peréz Art Museum Miami. 

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Works
  • Moses Sumney, Bush Boy, 2020
    Bush Boy, 2020
  • Moses Sumney, Char, 2020
    Char, 2020
  • Moses Sumney, Dysmorpheus, 2020
    Dysmorpheus, 2020
  • Moses Sumney, Jim Scarecrow , 2020
    Jim Scarecrow , 2020
  • Moses Sumney, Look Down, 2020
    Look Down, 2020
  • Moses Sumney, Poor Sport I, 2020
    Poor Sport I, 2020
  • Moses Sumney, Red Fern Grows, 2020
    Red Fern Grows, 2020
  • Moses Sumney, Sheer, 2020
    Sheer, 2020
Video
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