Jiha Moon (b. 1973) is a Korean-born artist based in Tallahassee, Florida. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa and has exhibited widely in museums and galleries across the U.S., including the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum, the High Museum of Art, and the Mint Museum. Her work is part of major collections, such as the Asia Society in New York and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Moon’s art spans gestural painting, mixed media, ceramics, and installations, exploring fluid identities and cultural intersections. Drawing from Eastern and Western art traditions, popular culture, Korean folk art, and modern symbols like internet emoticons, she creates intricate worlds where cultural icons blur and transform. She received the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s Painter and Sculptor Award in 2011, and her mid-career survey, “Double Welcome: Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” toured over 10 venues nationwide. Moon describes herself as a “cartographer of cultures,” playfully reworking familiar symbols into something both recognizable and elusive.

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