Jennifer Moon


Jennifer Moon is a conceptual artist and life-artist living in Los Angeles. She/They was born in Lafayette, Indiana and completed her/their BA at UCLA and Master's at Art Center College of Design.
Moon had their first solo art exhibition in 1996 and their work was shown regularly up to 2002. After receiving a graduate degree from Art Center, Moon suffered from drug abuse and was sentenced to 18 months in the Valley State Prison for Women in 2008, following several attempted robberies.
The interdisciplinary artist's work focuses on self-empowerment through a movement she calls "The Revolution". Moon blends queer science, self-help, fantasy, and the deeply personal through the Revolution in performances, videos, writing, and sculpture to share their unconventional vision with the world.
Moon published two books in 2012 as part of and exhibition at Commonwealth and Council, a Los Angeles art exhibition space:
Principle 1 of The Revolution Definition of Abundance and Where I Learned of Love. As part of their contribution to the 2014 iteration of the Hammer Museum's Made in LA Biennial exhibition, Moon published The Book of Eros.
Since 2012 Moon has had a monthly radio show on KCHUNG Radio formerly titled now titled where she covers topics such as love, body issues, race, trauma, and politics.
From 2014-2015 Moon installed six video cameras in her home and car that broadcast twenty four hours a day to the public space of the Equitable Life Building lobby.
Moon was the recipient of a 2013 CCF Fellowship and the Moan public recognition award at the 2014 Made in LA exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
In 2019, Moon's work "The Mooniform" was exhibited in the group show "School for Endurance Work," curated by Carole Frances Lung, at Cal State LA's Fine Arts Gallery.
Moon has exhibited internationally at venues including: