Jiha Moon

Moon's work, encompassing gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculptures, and installations, delves into fluid identities and the global movement of people and cultures.

Biography of Jiha Moon

Jiha Moon, born in 1973 in Daegu, Korea, is an accomplished artist currently residing and working in Tallahassee, Florida. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

Moon's works have been acquired by several prestigious institutions, including the Asia Society in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, the Smithsonian Institute's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, the Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.

Her solo exhibitions have been held at notable venues such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Taubman Museum in Roanoke, the Mint Museum of Art, the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville, Rhodes College's Clough-Hanson Gallery in Memphis, and the James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center in New York. Moon has also participated in group shows at the Kemper Museum in Kansas City, the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Asia Society in New York, The Drawing Center in New York, White Columns in New York, Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro.

In 2011, she received the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painter and Sculptor's Award. Her mid-career survey exhibition, "Double Welcome: Most everyone's mad here," organized by the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and the Taubman Museum, toured more than ten museum venues.

Jiha Moon's Art Style

Jiha Moon's art style is characterized by her exploration of fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. Her work encompasses gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture, and installations. Moon describes herself as a "cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds." She draws inspiration from a wide range of sources, including the history of Eastern and Western art, popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, fruit stickers, and product labels from around the world.