Jiha Moon South Korean, b. 1973
"Her work doesn’t try to resolve cultural tension—it revels in it. The visual density of her work mirrors the complexity of her identity: Korean and American, insider and outsider, sincere and tongue-in-cheek."
- Daniel Fuller, BURNAWAY
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.
Jiha Moon (b. 1973) was born in DaeGu, South Korea, and currently lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida. Her gestural paintings, ceramic sculptures, and installations explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and culture. “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds,” she says.
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 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.
Moon joined the Department of Art at Florida State University as a faculty member in Fall 2023.
