Join us for a conversation with Jiha Moon, acclaimed artist and 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, as she reflects on her exhibition Ten Moon and her evolving practice.
After relocating from Atlanta to Tallahassee, Moon’s work has shifted to embrace new environments and influences. Ten Moon features her signature blend of paintings, ceramics, and mixed-media works that draw from Korean folk traditions, American pop culture, and digital iconography. At its center is the Shrine series, where paintings and ceramic objects merge into intimate, dreamlike spaces exploring memory, identity, and transformation.
Moon will share insights into her practice, the symbolism of the moon as a marker of resilience and change, and her exploration of in-betweenness—where the familiar meets the surreal.
Her work is held in major collections including the Hirshhorn, the High Museum of Art, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
To close the event, the Atlanta Korean Cultural Center (AKCC) will present a Nanta performance, a high-energy percussion show that celebrates Korean culture and traditions through rhythm and movement. Founded in 2008 by HyunSuk Yang, AKCC has performed at national, state, and local festivals with a mission to build community connections through performing arts and education.
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.
with the Asian American Pacific Islander Design Association (AAPIDA)
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Atlanta Contemporary is excited to host an artist talk alongside the Asian American Pacific Islander Design Association (AAPIDA), as interior designer Jessica Davis, hospitality designer Renee Chiarelli, and artist Sonya Yong James come together for an intimate conversation exploring how art and design inform one another.
Join us for a family-friendly art workshop as part of the Contemporary Kids program, where kids of all ages can explore their creativity and engage with the themes of contemporary art!
