EDUCATION
2002
M.F.A., University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, IA
2001
M.A., University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History, Iowa City, IA
1999
M.F.A., Ewha University, Seoul, Korea
1996
B.F.A., Korea University, Seoul, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Chasing Spirits, MoFA Walmsley Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Stranger Yellow, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Nocturnal, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2021
Chasing Spirit, Abroms-Engel Institute for the visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Lucid Yellow, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA
2020
Enigmatics, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Rooted, The New Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2019
No faceland, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
A mad tea party, Sumter County Gallery, Sumter, SC
Familiar Faces, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Where Serpents change their skin, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
2018
Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here, (traveling exhibition), Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington DC,
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum Flagler College St. Augustine, FL
familiar face, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Visitors Green, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn, Alabama
2016
Blue Yolo Yellow Chrysanthemum, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here, (traveling exhibition), Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here, (traveling exhibition), Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
2015
Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (Curated by Mark Sloan and Amy Moorfield)
Double Welcome: Most everyone’s mad here, Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA, Curated by Mark Sloan and Amy Moorfield)
2014
Foreign Love, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
Foreign Love Too, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Foreign Love, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
All Kinds of Everything, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA & Atlanta, GA
2012
Souvenir Valise, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC, Washington, DC
Stars down to earth, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY, (Curated by Katherine Carl)
Detourist, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Springfield, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea (Catalog, Exhibition essay by Andrea Pollan)
2011
Colliding Icon, Cheek wood Botanical Garden and Museum, Nashville, TN
Day for Night, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhode College, Memphis, TN, (Curated by Hamlett Dobbin, Catalog, Exhibition essay by Hamlett Dobbins)
2010
American Appendage, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Blue Peony and impure thoughts, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009
An exact place, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC
2008
Turbulence Utopia, The Mint Museum, Vantage Point VII, Charlotte, NC, (Exhibition essay by Carla M. Hanzal)
Megaxiscape, Moti Hasson Gallery, Project exhibition, New York, NY
No Peach Heaven, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA, (Exhibition essay by Stuart Horodner)
2007
Line Tripping, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC, (Exhibition essay by John Ravenal)
Fabulous Fiction, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Pleasant Purgatory, Brain Factory, Seoul, Korea, (Exhibition essay by Jang Min Park),
2005
Symbioland, Curator’s Office, Washington, DC, (Exhibition essay by Lauren Ross)
2004
New work, Greenbelt Art Center, Greenbelt, MD
New work, Elizabeth Roberts Gallery, Washington, DC
Hypermeltedfictioncontradiction, Dega gallery, Mclean, VA
2003
I’ll meet you there, Korean Cultural Service, Washington, DC
Moonscape, Mclean Project for the Arts, Mclean, VA
2002
Absolute Narrative, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Resilient Traditions: Korean American Stories Told Through Paper, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Less We Say About It The Better, Olympia, New York, NY
Clay Pop Los Angeles, Jeffery Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Less We Say About It The Better, Olympia Gallery, New York, NY
Come A Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2022
This Present Moment: Crafting the Better World, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Workshop As… Curated by Francesca Zwang and Karen Patterson, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
State of Art II, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
In the round, Unit London, London, United Kingdom
Humor has it, Olympia, New York, NY
Southern Exigency, The Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Shaping Memories: Expression in Clay, Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA
2021
Object USA, Curated by Glenn Adamson, Catalogue, NY, NY
Fairyland, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
2020
45 at 45, L.A Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Dis/placement: Revisitations of Home, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (Online exhibition), Charleston, SC
Animal crossing (online exhibition: curated by Dana Frankfort and Jakie Gendel), Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
State of Art II, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
Shapeshifters, (Two person show: Joshua Adams and Jiha moon, Curated by Marylin Zapf), Center for Craft, Asheville, NC
2019
Temporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Entanglement, Laney Contemporary, Savannah, GA
Reconstructing Identities, Chautauqua Institution, (Curated by Erika Diamond), Chautauqua, NY
It only counts if you take a big piece, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL
More is More: Multiples, National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington, DC
Atlanta Biennial, The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Chaos and Awe (Traveling), Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Museum, Nashville, TN
Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation, Fabric workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2017
Blue Willow, Poem 88, Atlanta, GA
Chance on the Edge of a Line, Sunroom, Richmond, VA, (Curated by Audrey Moyer)
2016
Peachtree Industry, Bodega, New York, NY, (Curated by Erin Jane Nelson and Jason Benson)
A Whisper of Where it came from, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO, (Curated by Erin Dziedzic)
2015
Organic Matters, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Beauty Reigns, Akron Museum, Akron, OH
2014
The Lineage of Vision- Progress through Persistence, Korean Cultural Service, New York, NY
Past Traditions/New Voices in Asian Art, Hoftra University Museum, Hempstead, NY, (Curated by Karen T. Albert)
Hunter Invitational III, Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN, (Curated by Nanidini Makrandi)
Beauty Reigns, McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX, (Curated by René Paul Barrilleaux)
Ink & Paper, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
2013
Drawing Inside the Perimeter, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Painterly gesture, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA, (Curated by Hannah Israel)
Thinking showing, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
2012
Maier Museum, Randolph College, Lynchburg, VA
2011
New American Voices II, Fabric workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
Movers and Shakers, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Chutes and Tears, The Lab, (Project exhibition with Rachel Hayes), New York, NY
2010
Recent Acquisition, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Hudgens Prize finalist exhibition, Hudgens Center for the Art, Duluth, GA
Departure and Arrivals, Towson University, Baltimore, MD, (Curated by Cara Ober)
New Faces, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, IL
Women of the Year, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
More mergers and Acquisitions, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, (Collaboration project with Rachel Hayes, Curated by Stuart Horodner), Atlanta, GA
2009
Recent Works, Roberts C. Williams Paper museum (Two person show), Atlanta, GA
Between the lines, Sarubia Project (Two person show), Seoul, Korea, (Curated by Sin won Hwang)
An intricate touch, Miki wick Kim contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
Five cubed, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY
Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC (Curated by Xandra Eden, catalogue)
2008
Currents; Recent Acquisitions; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Movement, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, (Curated by Linda Muehlig)
New Print; Spring 2008, International Print Center of New York, New York, NY, (Selected by Jane Hammond)
2007
Jiha Moon and Franklin Evans, Miki Wick Kim Contemporary Art, (Two person show with Franklin Evans), Zurich, Switzerland
Talent show, Atlanta Biennial, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, (Curated by Stuart Horodner)
Levity, The Drawing Center, Catalogue, New York, NY, (Curated by Katherine Carl)
This Many, Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006
Asia Society’s 10 artists print Portfolio, Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY
Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
One way or another: Asian American Art Now, Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY, (Curated by Melissa Chiu, Susette S. Min and Karin Higa)
Art gallery of University of Houston, TX
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, CA
Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, until 2008
The real World, Katzen art museum of American University, Washington, DC)
Animalia, Irvine Contemporary, Washington DC
2005
The Trawick Prize, Bethesda contemporary art awards, Creative partners gallery, Bethesda, MD
Boundaries: Contemporary landscape, Union gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Red Beans and Rice, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, (Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Craig Buntting)
Strictly Painting 5, Mclean Project for the Art, Mclean, VA, (Curated by Jonathan P. Binstock)
State of the Art: Mid-Atlantic overview, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
2004
Semi-Lucid, White Columns, New York, NY, (Curated by Lauren Ross)
Technature, Kunstoffice, Berlin, Germany
Storytellers, Los Medanos College gallery, Pittsburg, CA
2003
Worlds- Welton- Valdar- SaeGae, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile, M3, Berlin, Germany
Hand and Eye, Artists in residency exhibition, Wesley Seminary, Washington, DC
2002
Midwest ticket, Gallery 119, Chicago, IL
M.F.A. exhibition, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
In Between, Byron Buford Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Fully Integrated, Dega Gallery, McLean, VA
SECETED BIBLIOGRAPHY/REVIEW
2023
"The Queue: Jiha Moon," American Craft Council, September 18, 2023
2022
Fateman, Johanna. "Goings on about town", The Newyorkers, Jan 24, 2022
Steinhauser, "What to see in N.Y.C galleries right now", The New York Times, January 20, 2022
Yau, John. "Moon's Artistic Breakthrough", Hyperallergic, January 13, 2022
2021
Feaster, Felicia. “Korean American artist Jiha Moon stages “Out Loud” with Atlanta Contemporary to give a voice to Asian women artists”, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 11th, 2021
2020
Yau, John. The White Melting pot, Hyperallergic.com June 27th 2020
Yau, John. What the New York Art World is Missing, Hyperallergic.com Jan 11th 2020
2019
Wooldridge, Jane. "Sheep at the beach an inverted statue dripping chocolate: A guide to must-see art Miami Herald", Dec 6, 2019
Elbaor Caroline. "Six breakout artists from across of America to discover in Crystal Bridges sprawling Contemporary Art survey", Artnet news.com Nov 13 2019
Callahan, Maura. "The Southeastern artists in the Atlanta Biennial may not be main stream- but Don’t call them outsider Artnet news.com", March 27, 2019
2018
Feaster, Felicia. "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution", December 7, 2018
Jenkin, Mark. "Asia Shapes two art shows at the AU museum", Washington Post, April 26, 2018
Weinger, Mackenzie. "Korean born, Atlanta based Artist Mixes Familiar with Foreign in Asian Western Fusion", The Washington Diplomat, April 30th, 2018
2017
Wertz, Orion. "Jiha Moon’s Cross-Cultural wonderland at Auburn University", Burnaway, Feb 15, 2017
2016
Ryan, Dinah. "Blue Yolo Yellow Chrysanthemum", Art Papers, P60-61, July/August 2016
Hawley, Anthony. "Future Fossil, Other Vessel", The Brooklyn Rail, June 3rd, 2016
Rodgers, Bill. "Jiha Moon’s Traveling Show of Loaded Signifiers Fired into Ceramics", Cfile.daily, April 1st, 2016
2014
Colvin, Rob. "In Survey of Southern Art, Place is the Space", Hyperallergic, Sept. 5th 2014
Yau, John. "Postscript to the Whitney Biennial: An Asian American Perspective", June 29th, 2014
Yau, John. "Kathy Butterly and the Aesthetic Challenge of “No Two Alike”", March 16th 2014
Wei, Lilly. "Here‘s Looking at You", exhibition essay, Beauty Reigns McNay Art Museum 2014
Lampe, Lilly. "Foreign Love Too", ArtAsiaPacific.com, March 2014
2013
Cash, Stephanie. "Jiha Moon’s tae kwon do art ebulliently melds East, West, high and low", Arts ATL Sept 17 2013
Feaster, Felicia. "Visual overload fuels “Forieign Love”", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sept 12, 2013
Pousner, Howard. "Moon pushes boundries in MOCA GA exhibit “Foreign Love”", The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sept 4 2013
Wick Kim, Miki. Korean Contemporary Art, Prestel. Print. 2013.
2012
Fox, Catherine. "Jiha Moon as ebullient, bemused, observant “Tourist” in sumptuous show at Saltworks", Arts ATL (online) May 3, 2012
Thornton, Grace. "Jiha Moon’s Detourist Exaggerates a Simplified View of Culture", Burnaway, April 4, 2012
2011
Koeppel, Frederick. "Go Memphis, Ideas, images flow uninterrupted in Jiha Moon’s Day for Night", September 15, 2011
Hutson, Laura. "By mashing up common cultural touchstones, South Korean-born artist Jiha Moon explores our national psyche", Nashville Scene, May 19, 2011
Rice, Robin. "Static Cling", Philadelphia City Paper, February 23, 2011
Fallon, Roberta. "New American Voices a 4-Course Art Feast", Philadelphia Weekly, Feb 16, 2011
2010
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca. ARTFORUM.COM/CRITICS’ PICK, February, 2010
Fox, Catherine. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Page D12, Friday, Feb 12, 2010
Sirlin, Deanna. Creative Loafting, February 7, 2010
2008
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca. Art in America, Page 201, May, 2008
McClintock, Diana. Art Papers, Page 53, March/April issue, 2008
Wolf, Deborah. "A colorful utopia melding cultures", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan 27, 2008
Feaster, Felicia. "Peach Pit", Creative Loafing, Jan 23, 2008
2007
Wennerstrom, Nord. ARTFORUM, P360, December issue, 2007
Capps, Kriston. Line Tripping, Washington City Paper, Oct. 3, 2007
Oppenheim, Pill. Talent Show, Art papers, Page 57, September/October issue, 2007
New American Painitngs, Open Press, #70 Southern regions, Boston, MA, 2007
Cohen, David. "Weather Channels", New York Sun, May 25, 2007
2006
Smith, Roberta. "A Melange of Asian Roots and Shifting Identities", New York Times, September 8, 2006
Kunitz, Daniel. "Defying The Definitive", New York Sun, September 14, 2006
Yang, Jeff. "Asian Pop Art Breakers", San Francisco Chronicle, USA - Monday, Oct 16, 2006
New American Paintings, Open Press, #63 Mid Atlantic regions, Boston, MA 2006
Howell, George. Art Papers, Page 71, January/February issue 2006
McClintock, Diana. "Red Beans and Rice", Art Papers, Page 53, January/February issue, 2006
2005
Cudlin, Jeffry. "Symbioland", Washington City Paper, October 7, 2005
O'Sullivan, Michael. "Jiha Moon's Shining Contrast", The Washington Post, Sept.16, WE57, 2005
Dawson, Jessica. "Jiha Moon's Fantasy Island", The Washington Post, Sept.15, C05, 2005
2004
Johnson, Ken. "Semi Lucid", New York Times, OCT. 8, 2004
Dawson, Jessica. "In Moon's Work, the Eyes Have It", The Washington Post, AUG.15, CO5, 2004
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Tarble Art Center, Charleston, IL
Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
Fabric workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
National Museum of Women and in the Arts, Washington, DC
Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY
Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC
Smith College Museum, Northampton, MA
University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, NY
UBS Collection, New York, NY
Microsoft, New York, NY
Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
City Hall Art Collection, the John, A. Wilson Building, Washington, DC
Fulton County Art and Culture, Atlanta, GA
Art Omi International Art Center, Ghent, NY
Bank of America, Atlanta, GA
City Bank, New York, NY
Fidelity Bank, Atlanta, GA
Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
TEACHING
Current
Lecturer, Painting and Drawing, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2019-2016
Adjunct professor, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2016-2015
Workshop Instructor, Draw@ MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA,
2013-2012
Kirk visiting artist professor, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
VISITING ARTIST, LECTURES
2021
Abroms-Engel Institute for the visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
Rohde Island school of design, Province, RI (Painting and drawing, senior critique with BFA students)
Alfred University, Alfred, NY (Painting and drawing studio visit, critiques with MFA students)
Temple University, Tyler school of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA (MFA students)
Maryland Institute of College of Art, Baltimore, MD (Painting and drawing with BFA students)
2020
University of Tennessee Chattanooga, TN
Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2019
The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2018
Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flager College, St. Augustin, FL
Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
Katzen Art Center and American University, Washington DC
2017
Tarble Art Center and Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL
Depauw University, Greencastle, IN
Jule Collin Smith Museum of Fine Art and Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2016
Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
2015
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Columbus state University, Columbus, GA
2014
University of Colorado, Denver, CO
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
Minnesota State University (Screen print workshop), Mankato, MN
Falk visiting artist, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
2013
Kirk visiting artist, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
Savannah College of Arts and Design, Atlanta, GA
Savannah College of Arts and Design, Savannah, GA
2011
Montevallo University, Montevallo, AL
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
2010
Savannah College of Art and design, Atlanta, GA
Summer blossom visiting artist, Kent University, Kent, Ohio
American University, Washington, DC
University of north Texas, P.R.I.N.T. press (Screen print workshop), Denton, TX
Smith College, Northampton, MA
2009
Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, ME
2008
The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Smith College museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, ME
2005
American University, Washington, DC
2004
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
GRANT AND AWARD/RESIDENCIES
2016
Artadia Award, Atlanta awardee, New York, NY
2012-2013
MOCA GA Working Artist Project , The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2011
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptor’s grant, New York, NY
2009-2010
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
2010
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
University of North Texas, Print workshop at P.R.I.N.T, Denton, Texas
2009
Acadia Summer Art Program, Fabric workshop and Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
2008
Headlands Center for the Arts, Golden Foundation fellowship, Sausalito, CA
University of Central Florida, Print workshop at Flying Horse Editions, Orlando, FL
2007
Art Omi International Artists Residency, Ghent, NY
Acadia Summer Art Program, Fabric workshop and Museum, Bar Harbor, ME
2006
Singapore Tyler Print Institute, artist residency awarded by Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY
2005
The Trawick Prize, Bethesda Artists awards, Bethesda, MD
2003
UCROSS Foundation, Claremont, WY
2002
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA