Local artist Jiha Moon is one of NMWA’s ‘Women to Watch’
Painter nabs prestigious arts honor
- Courtesy Jiha Moon
- IN GOOD COMPANY: Jiha Moon’s “Time Out,” 2014
Atlanta artist Jiha Moon is in some pretty elite company. The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) announced that the Korean-born painter was selected as an artist for the their upcoming exhibition Organic Matters — Women to Watch 2015.
The biennial exhibition, Women to Watch, will be on view from June 5 to Sep. 13 in Washington D.C., and features up-and-coming and/or underrepresented artists from different U.S. states, and various countries around the world. The Women to Watch committee consults with contemporary arts curators in different regions to create a shortlist of artists that “use imagery and materials from the natural world,” which also happens to be this year’s theme. From there, the NMWA’s cutorial team puts their heads together to come up with the final roster of names.
The High Museum of Art’s Michael Rooks was the Georgia curator on the NMWA’s nominating committee, and selected Moon to be included in the exhibit. To see more of Moon’s work, head over to her website.
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