Jiha Moon (b. 1973, Daegu, South Korea; lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida) works in sculptural ceramics and painting. Her vessels and paintings are built through an accumulation of imagery drawn from Asian traditions and folklore, Western art history, and contemporary popular culture. Using this wide-ranging visual vocabulary, Moon develops a distinctly hybrid language that moves fluidly between two and three dimensions. Having spent half of her life in Korea and the other half in the United States, Moon’s work reflects a sustained engagement with cultural displacement. Her compositions combine borrowed and invented iconography—including Mexican Otomi dolls, Milagros, American Southern face jugs, emojis, tattoo design, and peaches—layered into densely patterned surfaces. Through this process of cross-cultural accumulation and transformation, Moon constructs a globalized visual dialect that explores identity, miscommunication, and the complexities of navigating multiple cultural frameworks.
She holds a BFA from Korea University in Seoul, Korea, and an MFA from Ewha University in Seoul, Korea, as well as an MA and an MFA from the University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University. Moon is a 2023 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in Fine Arts.
Moon has been exhibiting at the Gallery since 2020. She has had solo exhibitions at the Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City (2024); Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami (2022); and the Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham (2021). She has also been included in group exhibitions at the Chengdu Art Museum, China (2026); Telfair Museum, Savannah (2025); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2023); Jeffery Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); and the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC (2022). Her works are in numerous public collections, such as the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover; Baltimore Museum of Art; Fort Wayne Museum of Art; National Museum of Women and in the Arts, Washington, DC; Asheville Museum; and The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, among others.