Jiha Moon

Jiha Moon (b. 1973, DaeGu, South Korea) is a contemporary visual artist with a multifaceted practice ranging from gestural paintings, ceramic sculptures, and installations. Moon draws from a wide range of influences, including Eastern and Western art histories, Korean temple paintings and folk traditions, popular culture, internet emojis and icons, and product packaging from around the world. She often transforms and distorts these visual languages, making them both unrecognizable and strangely familiar at the same time.

Her work is included in the collections of The Asia Society, The High Museum of Art, The Mint Museum, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Renwick Gallery, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among others. She joined Florida State University's Art department faculty in the fall of 2023.

She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation's Painters & Sculptors Grant. 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 15 museums across the U.S.  

This exhibition was curated by Ian Carey, Curator of UNF Galleries, and Instructor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at the University of North Florida. 

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