Jiha Moon

Session 1, Week 2: June 12-18, 2022

Jiha Moon’s gestural paintings, mixed media, and ceramic sculpture explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. She says, “I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds.” She is taking cues from wide ranges of history of Eastern and Western art, colors and designs from popular culture, Korean temple paintings and folk art, internet emoticons and icons, fruit stickers and labels of products from all over the place. She often teases and changes these lexicons so that they are hard to identify yet stay in a familiar zone. Moon is from DaeGu, Korea and lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa, Iowa City. Her works have been acquired by Asia Society, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Jiha Moon, Blue mustache, 2019, 14 x 9.5 x 5in, earthenware, porcelain slip, underglaze, glaze, wire, wicker