Jiha Moon was born in 1973 in DaeGu, Korea. She received her MFA from University or Iowa and now lives and works in Tallahassee, Florida. Her work has been featured in museum exhibits and galleries all across the nation and she is recipient of prestigious Joan Mitchell foundation’s painter and sculptor’s award for 2011. Moon gestural paintings, mixed media, ceramic sculpture and installation explore fluid identities and the global movement of people and their cultures. 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.
