JIHA MOON

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Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Moon’s gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. Layering cultural elements such as emoticons and text, fashion, and Pop references from Korea, Japan, China, and North America, Moon blends humor and irony into global collages, teasing and changing these cultural lexicons from across the globe so that they are hard to identify, yet stay in a familiar zone. Moon, a gifted versatile painter, printmaker, and ceramicist, works in a variety of media, from ink and acrylic on Hanji (Korean mulberry paper) to porcelain sculpture accented with synthetic hair and ornamentation. Moon’s sculptures combine found objects, fibers, and atypical color-infused glazes and offer up their own mythological magnitude and presence, as if animated beyond their vessel-like scale. Selected as one of sixty artists to be included in Crystal Bridge’s State of the Art 2020, Moon’s work engages in the most pressing conversations about contemporary art and life.

Moon’s work has been acquired by Asia Society, New York, NY, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC and The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. She has had solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, GA, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, The Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN and Rhodes College, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Memphis, TN and James Gallery of CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY. She has been included in group shows at Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MI, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, Asia Society, New York, NY, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, White Columns, New York, NY, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC. She is recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Her mid-career survey exhibition, “Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here” organized by Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Taubman Museum has toured more than 10 museum venues around the country until 2018. Laney Contemporary Fine Art presented a solo booth of Moon’s recent ceramic sculptures and wall-hanging masks at NADA, Miami in December, 2019.