“Guiding principles are like your superpowers. They are what you need to be present in a situation for you to feel like you can show yourself.”
Artists and Rights, Episode 1: Living a Life While Decolonizing the Mind
Artists and Rights, Episode 2: Superpowers and Guiding Principles: Defining What You Want
Jennifer Moon (b. 1973, Lafayette, Indiana; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an artist, adventurer, and writer. Moon received her MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2002 and BA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. The foundation of Moon’s practice is their self-authored movement, The Revolution, a “way of being” laid out in two principles: Definition of Abundance and Definition of Expansive. Moon has had solo exhibitions at Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (2018); Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2017); Machine Project, Los Angeles (2015); Equitable Vitrines, Los Angeles (2014); and Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland (2013). Selected group exhibitions include AHL Foundation, New York (2019); Tina Kim Gallery, New York (2018); Southern Exposure, San Francisco (2016); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); and Courtesy, Paris, France (2013). Moon has performed at Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2017); Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (2017); LA><ART, Los Angeles (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2016); and Machine Project, Los Angeles (2015). Moon is the recipient of the Harpo Foundation direct artist grant (2020), AHL Foundation Award (2019), Korean Arts Foundation of America Award (2016), the Alpert/UCross Residency Prize (2015), the Mohn Public Recognition Award (2014) at the Hammer Museum’s Made in L.A. 2014, and the CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013).
You can also find Jennifer Moon here:
Paul Brach Visiting Artist Lecture Series at CalArts (2016)
Hammer Museum: Made in LA video profile (2014)
The Revolution’s website, The Revolution Twitter feed, The Revolution on KCHUNG
Selected Works
Jennifer Moon hosting their radio show Adventures Within at KCHUNG, 2015. Photo: Dredge Käng.
Jennifer Moon, A Story of a Girl and a Horse: The Search for Courage (from Phoenix Rising, Part 2: Eros vs. Agape), 2014. Metallic chromogenic print and frame, 58 x 50 in. Installation view, Made in L.A., Hammer Museum. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.
Jennifer Moon, I Am Jennifer (Song of Mr. Snuggles), 2018. Color video with sound, 2 min. 44 sec. Video still. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.