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Jennifer Moon
Jennifer Moon was born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1973 who is now a life and conceptual artist who lives in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BA from UCLA and a Masters from Art Center College of Design. Just after receiving a graduate degree from Art Center, she struggled with drug abuse which led to her being sentenced at Valley State Prison for Women in 2008 for 18 months as well as some attempted robberies. Moons work focuses on self empowerment through a movement she refers to as "The Revolution." She combines queer science, self-help, fantasy, and personal life through the Revolution performances, such as videos, writing, and sculpture to share her work and ideas with the world.

Website- http://jmoon.net/home.html

Social Media- https://www.instagram.com/revolutionordeath/?ref=badge

Achievements
After the hardships that Moon went through she was able to accomplish many things in her lifetime. In 2019 she won the Harpo Foundation Grants of Visual Artists Award. That same year also won the 2019 AHL- T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Gold Award. In 2021 was featured in The Minds Eye: A LACMA Poster Project and many more. She also published two books in 2012 as part of an exhibition at the Los Angeles exhibition space, Commonwealth and Council. The books are; Principle 1 of The Revolution Definition of Abundance (2012) and Where I Learned of Love (2012).

Some more achievements Jennifer Moon has won are,


 * 2016 KAFA Award.
 * 2015 Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize – Visual Arts.
 * 2014 Mohn Public Recognition Award, Made in L.A. 2014.
 * 2014 CCI ARC Grant.
 * 2013 CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists – Emerging.
 * 2018 Exhibition Familial Technologies (solo) and Mr. Snuggles FOREVER (collaboration with laub), Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

Work and Career
Moon has a monthly radio show ever since 2012 on KCHUNG Radio, named Adventure Within, now titled Adventures With You. In her radio show Moon discusses topics based on love, body issues, race, trauma, and politics. Moon began being seen in art exhibits from as early as 1996. She has exhibited her work all over the world including,


 * Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland;
 * China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA;
 * Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA;
 * Gentrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, Australia;
 * Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA;