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= Jennifer Moon = Jennifer Moon (born 1973) is a polydisciplinamorous life artist. She is known for her work on investigating the co-production of ethica-onto-epistem-ologies via organizing systems and how these various systems are entangled and perpetuated through bodies. Moon has gathered inspiration from queer life, science, self-help, popular culture, and fantasy and that has allowed her to become quite the accomplished artist. Her work gives us new possibilities to change things like our relationship to power and social and political imaginaries without limitations like binaries, hierarchies, and capital. The foundation of Moon's practice is a movement created by her, The Revolution, a way of liberatory wording, following two principles: abundance and expansiveness.

Website: http://jmoon.net

Instagram: @revolutionordeath

= Life and Education = Jennifer Moon was born in Lafayette, Indiana, but she currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Moon received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996 and her Master of Fine Arts at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design in 2002.

Moon has had a very successful career, writing books, having multiple art installations, and other notable accomplishments, but it wasn't always like that. During her time at UCLA, Moon developed a terrible drug habit. Although, she was still able to obtain her graduate degree from Pasadena Art Center, opening the door for a promising career. In 1996, she held her first solo show in the Richard Heller Gallery. Leading up to the year 2002, Jennifer Moon was a well-established artist in the L.A. Art Scene. This was until the drugs took over everything in her life. To feed her addiction, Moon, accompanied by her former boyfriend, relied on robbing people at ATMs using pepper spray. This lasted for two months before they were caught and arrested, sentencing her to eighteen months at Valley State Prison for Women.

= Career = Being incarcerated for eighteen months had a huge impact on Moon's artistic vision and work. She used her experiences to come up with the foundation of her art, The Revolution. The Revolution was a movement created by Moon focusing on changes that could be made through love, presence of mind, and empowerment. Some examples of this movement inspiring her work can be found in her self-published book This Is Where I Learned Of Love. Moon also published another book Principle 1 of The Revolution Definition of Abundance, as part of an exhibition at Commonwealth and Council in 2014. While in prison, Moon fell in love with another inmate, and with the sense of belonging, this made her not want to leave. Luckily, she got out of prison in 2009, after only serving half of her sentence. Moon, now sober, was ready to return to the art scene after ten years of being gone and that's exactly what she did. She created a three-part installation that was part of her Phoenix Rising Saga Series, as she liked the idea of her being reborn. The first exhibition of this series was in 2012 at the Commonwealth and Council, where she displayed photos of items from prison, such as the typewriter that she used to write love letters. The second part of her Phoenix Rising Saga Series is shown in the Hammer exhibit.

Moon would go on to create a number of different artworks and is still creating them today. She hosts self-discovery workshops, continues to publish her writings, and even hosts a radio show called Adventures With You (formerly known as Adventures Within) on KCHUNG.

= Accomplishments and Awards =
 * 2022: Creative Capital Award
 * 2019: Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists
 * 2019: AHL-T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Gold Award
 * 2016: KAFA Award
 * 2015: Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize - Visual Arts
 * 2014: Mohn Public Recognition Award
 * 2014: CCI ARC Grant
 * 2013: CCF Fellowship for Visual Arts

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