Jennifer Moon

Associate Professor | BFA Fine Arts, MFA Fine Arts

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.

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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
  • 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
  • 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 
  • 2017
  • 2016 

Publications:  

Selected Publications

Clients and Employment History:  

  • 2019–2021: Visiting Faculty, Film/Video, Bard MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY