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= Jennifer Moon = Jennifer Moon is a Korean American artist born in 1973 in Lafayette, Indiana. She received her BA from UCLA in 1996 and her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2002. Moon is a Los Angeles-based conceptual and life artist, writer, and revolutionist. Her work focuses on investigating personal life, science, self-help, queer life, and fantasy by recognizing and illustrating the relationship between these and various organizing systems. Her work builds on reforming the human stance on power, the nature of relationships, politics and radicalism, the human body and mindset, artistic transformation, and changes beyond hierarchies and capital. Moon demonstrate and showcases her conceptualization through various mediums like teaching, exhibitions, performances, workshops, music, radio, and writing.

Moon's initial interest in art developed in high school, when she took art classes at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Intimidated by traditional art forms like painting and drawing, she entered UCLA's undergraduate art program feeling unmotivated by traditional art boundaries. It wasn't until she visited the contemporary art exhibition "Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s", where she discovered freer art forms like installations and sound pieces. The exhibition inspired her to push her boundary's by creating non-traditional artworks she could feel proud calling her own. Moon inspired by contemporary art, she combining performance and multimedia elements into her art works. Additionally, at UCLA, Moon discovered artist like Charles Ray, Paul McCarthy, and Chris Burden, whom she respected for their popular personality and status. From watching them, she gained a desire to be a public figure whom people could look to for guidance when navigating the difficulties in society. So, she created artworks, making herself and her personal perfection the focus. She took the praises and criticism people made about her work and used it to inspire her future projects. Moon describes herself and her work as “feminist issues with male tactics.” Also, during her nine month incarceration in 2008, her artistic practices shifted towards drawing inspiration from her personal experiences. She hoped to create the Revolution, a movement meant to teach love, empowerment, and presence of mind.

Employment
In addition to her work as a conceptual and life artist, Moon was a visiting lecturer for the subject of film/video at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts from 2019 to 2021. Since 2019, Moon has been an assistant professor of sculpture/new genres and fine arts at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.

Artist Statement
"Art possesses the ability to transform the way we perceive and interpret information. Exceptional art is when it expands beyond its physical form or occupation of a particular space and time to forever change the way in which I generally understand something. It stimulates an unavoidable adventuring within, acknowledging and questioning the manners in which I take in information, bringing to the surface the various beliefs I consciously or unconsciously subscribe to, which ultimately influence the way I interact with myself and the world.  I am invested in art that engages the public to enthusiastically adventure within in order to question the beliefs that block us from true connection. To this end, my work is largely an exercise in vulnerability: a constant exposing of my psyche, making public my personal self as a political act, and understanding that this is how true connection is formed. My commitment to connection, continuous expansion, and revolution has led me to expand my art practice to include every single interaction I have—no matter how seemingly small—with every being, living or otherwise, seen or unseen, in order to gain a seamless, merging into a wholly magical way of life beyond our current imagination".

Artistic Goal
Through her work and artistry, Moon desires to spread the Revolution beyond art making and have a Revolution foundation to offer guidance to others. Her aim for the Revolution is for it to develop and evolve into a profession that goes beyond the art-world.

There is currently a Revolution School which a a collection of various artists, magicians, activists, hackers, academics, psychokinetic's, scientists, chemists, and archivists. This group was formed in August 2020 as a part of the Commonwealth and Council Summer School program, “The Revolution: Operation Scrooge and League of Superheroes,” which was organized by Moon. The Revolution School was created to help inspire, support, and assist in the process of artist projects, especially if they relate to the principles of the Revolution. The Revolution has two principles: 1) always operate from a place of abundance and 2) always choose the most expansive route. The Revolution was developed to help artist understand the reason why people abuse their power and resources is because of their neglected and unprocessed trauma.

Exhibitions
Moon participates in a multitude of solo and group exhibitions that resonate with her personal ideals. These exhibitions are often related to her Korean culture and experiences as an Asian American, as well as her other interests and motivations.


 * 2000: The Facility – China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA This exhibition explores the routines of human life and how people try hard to work on themselves.
 * 2013: There is Nothing Left but Freedom – Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland The exhibition is a documentation of Moon’s incarceration and explores her imprisonment, love, revolution, and freedom.
 * 2016: Over the Wall – Sothern Exposure, San Francisco, CA This group exhibition is about love and other imagination within systems and sites of oppression.
 * 2017: The Longest Journey is From Our Head to Our Heart – Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA This exhibition explores the scientific and metaphoric significances of love and how it is expressed.
 * 2018: Familial Technologies -- Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA This exhibition centers around Moon’s family and explores how she perceived each member and how she learned to show love to others.
 * 2019: The School for Endurance Work – Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA This exhibition demonstrates how we don’t live in isolation as it explores critical history, community engagement, feminism, revolution, sustainability, and visual resistance.
 * 2020: MMCA Asia Project: Looking for Another Family, Imaginaries of the Future -- National Museum of modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea This exhibition focuses on Korean culture and Korean family life.

Notable Awards

 * 2014: Mohn Public Recognition Award – “Made in L.A. 2014”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Moon was awarded because her instillation received the highest number of votes from the public. Her intimation was a mixture of political theory, self-help, and fantasy to create a shift in how the world views love, presence of mind, and empowerment.
 * 2019: Gold Award – “Familial Technologies, 2018 Installation View”, The 16th Contemporary Visual Art Awards, New York, NY Awarded for Moon’s use of fantasy card games, video game avatars, children’s film environment to alleviate the tension of exploring difficult and awkward subjects.

Publications

 * 2013: This Is Where I Learned Of Love: CDCR 8/18/08 – 5/19/09. Raleigh, NC: Lulu. Print. eBook.2012 Definition of Abundance: Principle 1 of The Revolution. 1st ed. Los Angeles, CA: Commonwealth & Council. Print.
 * 2013: Definition of Abundance: Principle 1 of The Revolution. 2nd ed. Glasgow, Scotland: Transmission Gallery. Print.
 * 2016: “Take My Hand and Let’s Get Out of This 4% Universe.” Critics Page contribution with laub, organized by John Tain. The Brooklyn Rail July-August 2016. Print.
 * 2017: “At the Edge of Space and Time: Expanding Beyond Our 4% Universe,” Artist Project with laub, co-edited by taisha paggett and Erin Silver, C Magazine Issue 132 Winter 2017. Print.
 * 2020: “Episode 1: Living a Life While Decolonizing the Mind” with Nao Bustamante, Todd Gray, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Jennifer Moon. Moderated by Mario Ontiveros. X-TRA’s Artists and Rights, July 7 2020. Podcast.
 * 2020: “Old Technologies, New Embodiments / Queer Science: On Virtual Touching,” “Remote Intervention: A Symposium in Partnership with the Transformations of the Human Program at the Berggruen Institute,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2, 2020. Web.
 * 2020: “Time Travel: What will be different about the art world in 2050?,” Time Capsule prediction, frieze, No. 213, September 2020. Print.

Contact Information
Website: jmoon.net

Instagram: instagram.com/revolutionordeath

Twitter: twitter.com/expansivelove

Email: jennifer@jmoon.net