Magni Moss is a painter, who on the one hand wants us to zoom out from the very foundation of western traditions and at the same time still have one foot left in. In a moment in history when contemporary art is ostensibly being defined through consumerism, identity and social media Moss has established a ‘method’  away from these given structures. In his very open painterly process the discursive milieu becomes part of a toolbox coexisting with basic material sensation and the immanent qualities of experience as such. Thus, the aim of Moss's project is one of unification and connectedness rather than one that just meditates on the impossibility of painting or an escapade in romantic material sensations. This is an act of contemplation and poetry as a painted picture, or as shown throughout his career as point of departure for other mediums and installations in relation to the image, as concept. Berlin based writer and arts critic Kristan Vistrup Madsen notes: 

'The notion of style depends on making a distinction between matter and manner. But in Moss’s paintings, vague stylistic references to, say, modernist abstraction or ancient Roman portraiture, appear only long enough to register as subject, not form. In other words, by always beginning again, he allows his paintings to remain in a kind of nascent state, a primordial soup, where the distinction between being and language is not yet quite possible.'

Based between Gässemåla, Sweden and Walyalup/Fremantle, Australia, Moss has exhibited extensively across Europe as well as South East Asia, North America and Australia. His selected exhibitions include How you going? at Cheap Tongue Gallery (solo show, Walyalup AUS, 2025), After work at Antics (solo show, Stockholm SWE, 2023), CAMPOS at Cibrián (duo show with Natsuko Uchino, Donostia/San Sebastián ESP, 2023), Pleasant Pineapple at Museum Vandalorum (solo show, Värnamo SWE, 2023), Settings at Last Resort (solo show, Copenhagen DNK, 2020), Magni Moss at Last Resort (solo show, 2018), Closing Show at Brunswick Sculpture Center (group show, Naarm/Melbourne AUS, 2018), Tutti Frutti Biennale at Sikås Art Center (group show, Sikås SWE, 2018), The Island of Blossoming Trees at Alta Art Space (group show, Malmö SWE, 2017), 13 True Stories at Last Resort (solo show, 2016), Kitchen Midden at Griffin Art Projects (group show, Vancouver CAN, 2016), Conflicting evidence at 1857 (group show, Oslo NOR, 2015), Lumba Kuda at Window (group show, Penang MYS and Aukland NZ, 2014), Happy as a Herring at MODEL (solo show, Vancouver CAN, 2014), and Loose Hotties at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center of Portland (duo performance with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Portland USA, 2014).

From 2007 to 2008, Moss studied under Professor Willem de Rooij at Städelschule (Frankfurt DEU) and in 2009, received a Master of Fine Arts degree from The Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå (Umeå SWE). He has delivered lectures, taught at both universities and at the Swedish Folkhögskola as well as worked as a curator throughout Europe. Moss has been represented by AVA in Perth, Australia since 2025.