Jiha Moon

Jiha Moon (born 1973) is a contemporary artist who focuses on painting, printmaking, and sculptural ceramic objects. Born in Daegu, South Korea, Moon is currently based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jiha Moon
Born1973 (age 47–48)
Daegu, South Korea
Alma materKorea University
Ewha Womans University
University of Iowa
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationMun Jiha
McCune–ReischauerMun Chiha

Early life and education

Moon was born in Daegu, South Korea in 1973. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Korea University and her Master of Fine Arts in Western Painting from Ewha Womans University. After graduating, Moon relocated to the United States to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in painting at the University of Iowa.[1]

Work

Moon's paintings combine visual icons and symbols from a variety of sources, cutting across culture lines to the accumulation of art historical, corporate, and advertising symbols in contemporary society. Eastern and Western imagery and painting techniques, emoji, internet icons, and folk art are present in her work. She works primarily in acrylic paint on Hanji, a Korean paper, and incorporates fabrics, embroidery, and print collage in her paintings.

After she completes the abstract version of the composition she re-configures some of the markings to suggest recognizable images, such as cartoon characters. She also incorporates mass-produced items like textiles, embroidered patches, small trinkets.

Art critic Roberta Smith wrote about Moon's work in the 2005 Asia Society exhibition "One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now," stating, "Jiha Moon packs...information into large, teeming paintings on paper, creating a sense of flux... rife with references to everything from traditional Chinese brush painting to contemporary cartoons."[2]

She has received a number of awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant,[3] the Trawick Prize,[4] and a Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Working Artist grant. Moon has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Omi International Arts Center, MacDowell Colony, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, and the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion.

Exhibitions

Moon's solo exhibition "Double Welcome: Most Everyone's Mad Here," which was organized by the Taubman Museum of Art and Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, opened at the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, VA,[5] in 2015 has or will continue to travel to the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art], the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Salina Art Center, the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Richard E. Peeler Art Center at DePauw University, the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University, the American University Museum, and Crisp-Ellert Art Museum at Flagler College.[6] Moon has also had solo exhibitions at the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC,[7] the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, TN,[8] the James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City,[9] and the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC,[10] as well as galleries in Atlanta, New York, Seoul, Washington D.C., and Zurich.

Collections

Bibliography

2016:

  • Hawley, Anthony. "Future Fossil, Other Vessel". Brooklyn Rail, June 3, 2016.[19]

2014:

2012:

  • Kim, Micki Wick. "Jiha Moon". Korean Contemporary Art. Prestel Publishing: Munich, London, New York. Pg. 138-141. 2012.

2010:

  • Cochran, Rebecca Dimling. "Critics' Pick: Jiha Moon". ARTFORUM.com, Feb 2010.

2008:

  • McClintock, Diana. "Jiha Moon". Art Papers, Mar/Apr 2008.
  • Cochran, Rebecca Dimling. "Jiha Moon". Art in America, May 2008.

2007:

2006:

  • New American Paintings. Open Press, #63 Mid Atlantic Regions. Boston, MA 2006.

McClintock, Diana. "Red Beans and Rice". Art Papers, Jan/Feb 2006.

2005:

2004:

References
  1. 익숙하고 낯선 '숨은그림찾기' 문지하 개인전 January 26th, 2012 Yonhap
  2. Smith, Roberta (8 September 2006). "A Mélange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  3. "Painters & Sculptors Program 2011". Joan Mitchell Foundation.
  4. "Trawick Prize". bethesda.org/.
  5. "Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone's Mad Here". Taubman Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  6. "Double Welcome: Most Everyone's Mad Here". Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  7. "Vantagepoint VII: Jiha Moon: Turbulent Utopia". Mint Museum.
  8. "Jiha Moon: Colliding Icons". Cheekwood Art and Gardens. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  9. "Jiha Moon: Stars Down to Earth". CUNY Center for the Humanities. Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  10. "Jiha Moon: Falk Visiting Artist, Foreign Love". Weatherspoon Art Museum. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  11. "Jiha Moon at the Asheville Art Museum".
  12. "Jiha Moon at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute".
  13. "Jiha Moon at the Fabric Workshop". Fabric Workshop and Museum.
  14. "Drawing Inside the Perimeter".
  15. "Collection: Jiha Moon". Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
  16. "Object Record". MOCA GA / PastPerfect Online.
  17. "Cascade Crinoline | Artwork". NMWA.
  18. "21st Century Art: Jiha Moon". Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
  19. HAWLEY, ANTHONY (3 June 2016). "Future Fossil, Other Vessel". The Brooklyn Rail.
  20. Colvin, Rob (5 September 2014). "In Survey of Southern Art, Place Is the Space". Hyperallergic.
  21. Yau, John (29 June 2014). "Postscript to the Whitney Biennial: An Asian-American Perspective". Hyperallergic.
  22. May 17, DAVID COHEN. "Weather Channels". The New York Sun.
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