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= Jennifer Moon (artist) =

Background
Jennifer Moon was born in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1973. In 1996, she received her Bachelor of Arts from UCLA, and in 2002 she acquired her Masters of Fine Arts from Art Center College of Design. From 2008 to 2009, Jennifer Moon served a nine-month sentence for attempted robbery. After serving her time, Moon began taking a more active approach in her artistic practice. Particularly, Moon began cultivating a more profound idea of what she refers to as the Revolution, which she perceives as "a movement that envisions a worldwide shift in thinking through love, presence of mind, and empowerment." In the passing years, Moon's ideas were creatively illustrated through different means such as writings, performances, videos, and art exhibitions, where she was able to integrate a mix of "political theory, self-help, and fantasy." Her uniqueness and qualities as a creator is best depicted in an interview/article in 2017, where she was described as "an android-like humanoid creature from the quantum realms of the multiverse committed to understanding human emotions and creating alternatives to the predetermined outcomes of art and life." All the while continuing her practice to in art and advocation of the Revolution, Moon is also currently taking an active role as one of the hosts in the segment "Adventure With You," which is on the KCHUNG radio, a freeform radio station primarily played in the Los Angeles Chinatown neighborhood. Since 2019, Jennifer Moon has been an assistant professor of Sculpture/New Genres in the Otis College Art and Design, Los Angeles.

Phoenix Rising, Part 1: This Is Where I Learned of Love
"The Phoenix Rising, Parti 1: This Is Where I Learned of Love" is Moon's first solo-exhibition with the Commonwealth and Council. The objects presented in the exhibition is said to be a representation of the time Moon has spent at the Valley State Prison for Women. This consists of her identification card and photographs of the items from her incarceration. To recreate a more vivid feel to the exhibition, Moon also included a sketch of her cell's layout, as well as a typewriter and letters to commemorate prisoners' connection to the outside world. Setting it into perspective, Commonwealth and Council describes the exhibition as something that "explores how to document abundance, formlessness, continuous expansion, relentless awareness of self, unadulterated love, and the ever-changing definitions of the artist's public/private personas."

Phoenix Rising, Part 3: laub, me, and The Revolution (The Theory of Everything)
In 2015, Moon held an exhibit called "Phoenix Rising, Part 3: laub, me and the Revolution (The Theory of Everything)," which includes charts, diagrams, and models that are converted into what looks to be a science fair exhibition equipped with a laboratory. As indicated by an article by Commonwealth and Council in "referencing the principles of physics, quantum mechanics, astrophysics, and microbiology, Moon and laub test their theory of expansive, relational love and present their experiment to merge with one another on parallel planes of existence."

Familial Technologies
Moon held an exhibition in 2018 named "Familial Technologies," which was made in collaboration with her older brother Stefan, father Kyung Ho, and mother Wan Hee. Commonwealth and Council best describes the exhibition, stating that "Moon uses chaos theory to diagram the relationship between family and state as a self promulgating dynamic system--revealing its underlying dependence on initial seed values and describing the feedback loops, repetition, self-similarity and fractals that emerge."

Mr. Snuggles FOREVER
In honor of Moon's dog, who is said to be her "symbol of revolutionary relational love," Moon collaborated with laub in an exhibition in the Armory's Mezzanine Gallery East to create "Mr. Snuggles FOREVER." This is described to have included "a magic-infused installation in the stairwell of the Armory celebrating the life, death, and afterlife of Mr. Snuggles."

At the Edge of Space and Time: Expanding Beyond Our 4% Universe
As part of the Hammer Museum's Bureau of Feminism Initiative, Jennifer Moon collaborated with laub in planetary-like performance in which they bring the viewers "on an adventure through the cosmos, the multiverse, and beyond, presenting ideas about love, faith, and revolution by queering various scientific disciplines."

Other Exhibitions/ Collaboration Projects

 * 2021- The Mind's Eye: A LACMA Poster Project, Art Rise, WE RISE 2021
 * 2020- MMCA Asia Project: looking for another family, Imaginaries of the Future, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
 * 2019- Domestic Affairs AHL - T&W Foundation 2019 Contemporary Visual Art Awards Winners Exhibition, AHL Foundation Project Space, New York, NY
 * 2019- At the Edge of Space and Time: Expanding Beyond Our 5% Universe, performance with laub, Ever Present: Cosmos, Getty Museum
 * 2018- A Breach in the Realm of Beliefs (solo) in the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
 * 2017- The Longest Journey is From Our Heads to Our Hearts, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
 * 2017- We Are The Market! , Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands
 * 2017- This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection , organized by LACMA, traveling exhibition, San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
 * 2016- S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
 * 2016- Over the Wall, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
 * 2014- Will You Still Love Me: Learning To Love Yourself, It Is The Greatest Love Of All, Equitable Vitrines, Los Angeles, CA
 * 2014- Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
 * 2013- There Is Nothing Left but Freedom , Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

Awards and Honors

 * Moon won the Public Recognition Mohn Award for her role in the production of the 2014 Made in LA biennial at the Hammer Museum. She received $25,000 along with the award.
 * KAFA or the Korean Arts Foundation of America awarded Moon in 2016. Jurors commended Moon for "consistently working toward expanding her practice and ideas." They saw the award as fitting in that it would help support Moon's "creativity and production which often veers toward the temporal, ephemeral and conceptual."
 * In 2018, Moon won a gold award given by the AHL foundation for her installation Familial Ties, which the jurors described to have "whisked [them] away by the whimsy into spaces of freedom where all discussions fell safe."


 * OTHER AWARDS:
 * 2019- Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists; Awarding Moon's exhibition Familial Ties
 * 2015- Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize- Visual Arts
 * 2014- CCI ARC Grant
 * 2013- Fellowship for Visual Arts

Publications

 * This is Where I Learned of Love, Moon's self-published book, came out in May 2014. According to Hammer Museum's website, within the book, "Moon casts herself as a political prisoner, merging her letters with a larger insight about prison populations in the United States. In blurring definitions and practice, Moon creates a space for shifting of notions about society."
 * "Take My Hand and Let's Get Out of This 4% Universe" is a 2016 article under The Brooklyn Fair by Jennifer Moon and Laub which addresses the interlocking relationship between human existence and the universe, which is supported by the foundation of physics.
 * 2020- "Old Technologies, New Embodiments. Queer Science: On Virtual Touching," Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2, 2020
 * 2020- "Episode 2: Superpowers and Guiding Principles: Defining What You Want to Sustain" with Nao Bustamante, Todd Gray, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Jennifer Moon, July 14, 2020
 * 2020- "Episode 1: Living a Life While Decolonizing the Mind" with Nao Bustamante, Todd Gray, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Jennifer Moon, July 7, 2020
 * 2013- Definition of Abundance: Principle 1 of The Revolution. 3rd ed, Los Angeles, CA; Hammer Museum. Print

Contacting and Connecting With the Artist

 * Website: http://jmoon.net/home.html
 * Instagram: @revolutionordeath
 * Twitter: @expansivelove
 * Email: jennifer@moon.net