Education
- Master of Fine Arts, (2002) Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
- Bachelor of Art, (1996) University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Bio and Affiliation
Jennifer Moon (they/she; b. 1973, Lafayette, Indiana; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a polydisciplinamorous[1] life-artist whose work investigates the co-production of subjects/objets via organizing systems (social systems, institutional structures, power relations, scientific theories, emotional frameworks, etc.) and how these various systems are entangled, co-constituted, performed, and perpetuated through bodies (human, more-than-human, material, immaterial). Drawing from queer life, science, self-help, popular culture, the deeply personal, and fantasy, Moon’s work mobilizes possibilities to reconfigure our relationship to power, to reignite the social and political imaginaries, and to stimulate change beyond binaries, hierarchies, and capital.
[1] Polydisciplinamory is Natalie Loveless’s term for an expanded interdisciplinary work informed by ethical polyamory and queer love that acknowledges the inequities among disciplines and refuses to commit to disciplinary boundaries. Natalie Loveless, How to Make Art at the End of the World: A Manifesto for Research-Creation, Duke University Press, 2019.
Awards and Honors
- 2025
- Jacki Apple Award for Performance and Artist Projects
- 2023
- Excellence in Teaching Award, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
- 2022
- Faculty Development Grant, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
- California Arts Council Grant, The Revolution School, Artists in Residence, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles
- Creative Capital Award, The Revolution School: Dev/in Alejandro-Wilder, Dan/i Bustillo, Rino Kodama, Jennifer Moon, Clara Philbrik
- 2019
- Harpo Foundation Grants for Visual Artists
- AHL – T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Gold Award
- 2016
- KAFA Award
- 2015
- Alpert/Ucross Residency Prize – Visual Arts
- 2014
- Mohn Public Recognition Award, Made in L.A. 2014
- CCI ARC Grant
- 2013
- CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists – Emerging
Professional Accomplishments and Exhibitions:
Selected Solo Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions, and Performances
- 2025
- The Sluttification of a Revolutionary, KINK FOR LIBERATION, collaboration with Graydancer, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
- Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture, Vincent Price Museum, Monterey Park, CA
- 2023
- Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- BEI Thinky Feely Tank series, The Revolution School, Artists in Residence, Feminist Center for Creative Work, Los Angeles, CA
- 2022
- Cantos of the Siblylline Sisterhood, The Revolution School: Pilar Gallego, Rino Kodama, Kristen Mitchell, Jennifer Moon, Clara Philbrick, Cedric Tai, Alyce de Roulet, Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA, July 7-October 2, 2022
- Studio 2022, The Revolution School, The Revolution School; Devin Alejandra-Wilder, Sara Barnett, Dan/i Bustillo, Pilar Gallego, Lauren Klotzman, Kristen Mitchell, Jennifer Moon, Nico Luna Paz, Clara Philbrick, Cedric Tai, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, April 12-17, 2022
- 2021
- The Mind’s Eye: A LACMA Poster Project, Art Rise, WE RISE 2021, The Revolution School: Devin Alejandro-Wilder, Sara Barnett, Jessie Closson, Kristen Mitchell, Jennifer Moon, Nikki Luna Paz, Cedric Tai, May 2021
- 2020
- MMCA Asia Project: looking for another family, Imaginaries of the Future, organized by Kang Seung Lee, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, May 22—August 30, 2020
- Familial Technologies, curated by Anuradha Vikram, UCLA Art|Sci Center, January 2020
- 2019
- Domestic Affairs AHL – T&W Foundation 2019 Contemporary Visual Art Awards Winners Exhibition, organized by Keith Schweitzer and Young Jeon, AHL Foundation Project Space, New York, NY, November 7—December 1, 2019
- At the Edge of Space and Time: Expanding Beyond Our 5% Universe, performance with laub, Ever Present: Cosmos, organized by Sarah Cooper, Getty Museum, July 13, 2019
- 2018
- Familial Technologies (solo) and ✨Mr. Snuggles FOREVER✨ (collaboration with laub), Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
- A Breach in the Realm of Beliefs (solo) and ✨Mr. Snuggles FOREVER✨ (collaboration with laub), Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
- 2017
- The longest journey is from our heads to our hearts, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
- We Are The Market!, performative intervention with laub in the city centre, Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (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
- At the Edge of Space and Time: Expanding beyond Our 4% Universe, In Real Life: Performance with laub, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- S/Election: Democracy, Citizenship, Freedom, organized by Erin Christovale, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA
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- Over the Wall, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
- 2015
- Phoenix Rising, Part 3: laub, me, and The Revolution (The Theory of Everything) (collaboration with laub), Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
- 2014
- Will You Still Love Me: Learning To Love Yourself, It Is The Greatest Love Of All, Equitable Vitrines, Los Angeles, CA
- Made in L.A. 2014, organized by Connie Butler and Michael Ned Holte, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
- 2013
- There is Nothing left but Freedom, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2012
- Phoenix Rising, Part 1: This Is Where I Learned Of Love, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA
Publications:
Selected Publications
- 2022, "A Letter from 2047," with Dan Bustillo, for "Considering the Future of Art and Design: The Next 25 Years at Otis College," Grid, April 22, 2022. Web.
- 2020 “Time Travel: What will be different about the art world in 2050?,” Time Capsule prediction, frieze, No. 213, September 2020. Print.
- 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 “Episode 2: Superpowers and Guiding Principles: Defining What You Want to Sustain” with Nao Bustamante, Todd Gray, Gelare Khoshgozaran, and Jennifer Moon. Moderated by Mario Ontiveros. X-TRA’s Artists and Rights, July 14 2020. Podcast.
- 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.
- 2017 Definition of Abundance: Principle 1 of The Revolution. 4th ed. Eindhoven, Netherlands: Onomatopee. 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.
- 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.
- 2014 Definition of Abundance: Principle 1 of The Revolution. 3rd ed. Los Angeles, CA: Hammer Museum. Print.
- 2013 Definition of Abundance: Principle 1 of The Revolution. 2nd ed. Glasgow, Scotland: Transmission Gallery. Print.
- 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.
Clients and Employment History:
- 2019–2021: Visiting Faculty, Film/Video, Bard MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY