Moses Sumney

Artist & PW Members Presale begins at 10 am on Monday, March 31st.

Public Tickets go on sale at 10 am Tuesday, April 1st.

Pioneer Works is excited to welcome the incomparable Moses Sumney to perform two intimate sets of new music in our North Hall on Monday, April 7th.

Moses Sumney evades definition as an act of duty: technicolor self-directed videos and monochrome clothes; Art Rock and Black Classical music; seemingly infinite collaborators (Solange, Sufjan Stevens, James Blake), but one staggering voice.

Akin to his upbringing between Southern California and Ghana, his work migrates across genres and disciplines. His 2 albums have topped the critics’ lists of the New York Times, NPR, Pitchfork, the Guardian, and Rolling Stone; his music videos lauded by SXSW, the UKMVAs, the Webby and Camerimage awards. His emotional live show has graced prestigious stages like the BBC Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall, and moved sold-out audiences at the Sydney Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Royal Festival Hall.

When quarantine prohibited the touring of his 2nd album grae, Sumney took to the hills, directing the sprawling 2021 live concert film Blackalachia atop the Blue Ridge mountains. Here we see Sumney’s mastery of spectacle: shimmering vestments, angular choreography, songs performed acrobatically mid-air. It premiered at the Perez Art Museum during Art Basel and went on to be installed at Nicola Vassell Gallery along with Sumney’s first photo show. That same year, he starred in his first major campaign for Calvin Klein; the next, Burberry. In 2024, he became the new face of Rabanne’s Million Gold alongside Gigi Hadid.

Soon enough, the cinematic flare of his videos lead him to the silver screen. In 2023, he co-starred in HBO’s The Idol, and in 2024 starred alongside Mia Goth in A24’s MaXXXine. That same summer he released Sophcore, a soulful EP of sensual songs, and directed the UKMVA-nominated music video for “Vintage.”

2025 will see the release of a new full-length album after Sumney’s New York theatrical stage debut, starring in Shakespeare In The Park’s “Twelfth Night” alongside Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage.

Consistent across the worlds of music, fashion, fine art, and film is his assertion that the undefinable still exists and dwelling in it is an act of resistance. To quote 2020’s “also also also and and and” – he insists upon the right to multiple.