Education

2025 Masters of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Concentration: Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking University of             North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

 

Awards/Residencies/Grants

2026    2026 Miami University Young Painters Competition Finalist

            Residency at Vermont Studio Center

            On::View Residency, Savannah, Georgia

            FY26 South Arts Artist Creative Practice Grant

            University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, North Carolina Workshop 

            Stipend ($500)

 

2025 Mudhouse Residency 2025, Crete, Greece

         Mudhouse Fellowship, June 2025, Crete, Greece

         College of Fine Arts Student Research and Career Preparation Awards Grant, Spring 

         2025, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2024 Institut für Alles Mögliche, June 2024, Berlin, Germany

         SECAC Gulnar Bosch Travel Award, SECAC 2024, Atlanta Georgia

         Mary Ola Miller Reynolds Award, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         Congress of Graduate Students Presentation Grant, Congress of Graduate Students, 

         Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         Third Place, Thom Collective Exhibition, Thomasville Art Center, Thomasville, Georgia

         UROP Mentor Research Grant, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         College of Fine Arts Student Research and Career Preparation Awards Grant, Spring 

         2024, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2023 Mary Ola Miller Reynolds Award, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         College of Fine Arts Student Research and Career Preparation Awards Grant Fall 2023, Florida                State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         First Place, Nature Inspires Art Contest, The Nature Conservancy, Blowing Rocks 

         Preserve, Hobe Sound, Florida

         College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance General Development Scholarship, Florida 

         State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         Excellence in the Visual Arts Award, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2022 Best of Show in the Emerging Artist Category, Ocala Arts Festival, Ocala, Florida

 

2020 Outstanding Graduate in Fine Art Award, Class of 2020, University of North 

         Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

         Artist in Residence at Emma Love Elementary, Fernandina Beach, Florida

         Artist in Residence at Elephant Butte Reserve, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico

         Honorable Mention at Abstraction and the Surreal, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, 

         Florida 

         Honorable Mention at Pre[serve] 2020, Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida

 

2019 Radius Workshops Study Abroad Scholarship ($4,000), Jacksonville, Florida

 

Solo Exhibitions

2026   Touch Tank, The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida (scheduled)

           Touch Tank, Fried Fruit Gallery, Wilmington, North Carolina (scheduled)

 

2025 Breaking Binaries: Hybrid Processes, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, 

         Jonesboro, Arkansas

         Changing Tides, Chipola College Gallery, Chipola College, Marianna, Florida

         Breaking Binaries 2.0, Fine Art Center at Arkansas State University, Arkansas State 

         University, Jonesboro, Arkansas

 

2024 Membranes/Membranen, Das Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany

 

2023 Open, Wallspace at Grassroots Coffee, Thomasville, Georgia

 

Group Exhibitions

2026 2026 Miami University Young Painters Competition Finalist Exhibition, Miami 

         University, Miami, Ohio (Juried by Saya Woolfalk)

 

2025 Fresh Squeezed 9, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida

         Origins & Afterlives, Museum of Fine Art (Mofa), Florida State University, Tallahassee, 

         Florida

         Greetings from Mudhouse, Wish You Were Here…, Microscope Gallery, New York, New 

         York

         Emerging Artists 2025, dodomu gallery, Brooklyn, New York

         Locust Technician, Venvi Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

         Mudhouse Residency Exhibition, Crete, Greece

         From File to Form, FAB Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         Facets of Florida, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2024 Little Things 2024, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, Georgia

         Stay Curious, Omi Gallery, London, England

         Her Temple, LeMoyne Arts, Tallahassee, Florida

         Pattern Recognition, Share Art Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida

         Nature Inspires, Lighthouse Art Center, The Nature Conservancy, Hope Sound, Florida

         Good Vibrations, ARTS Southeast Sulfur Studios, Savannah, Georgia

         Thom Collective Exhibition, Thomasville Art Center, Thomasville, Georgia

         Pensacola Museum of Art Members Show, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida

         And Justice for All, Women Writing for (a) Change, Florida State College, Jacksonville, 

         Florida

         Flora and Fauna, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida

         Escapism, Florida Emerging Art, Online Exhibition, Florida

         My Job is Art, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

         Continuous Cycles, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2023 Excellence in the Visual Arts Exhibition, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

         Haunted, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

         Level 2, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

         Abstracto: Land of Dreams, featuring: Leslie Anderson, Lemoyne Arts, Tallahassee, 

         Florida

         Thom Collective Exhibition, Thomasville Center for the Arts, Thomasville, Georgia

         Eden Altered, featuring: Linda Hall & Dimelza Broche, Lemoyne Arts, Tallahassee, 

         Florida

         Rivers and Oceans, Florida State College, Jacksonville, Florida

         Rites & Passages, Working Methods Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2022 Between the Lines, William Johnston Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 

         Florida

         Fifty: An Alumni Exhibition, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida

         Aqua Art Miami, Miami Beach, Florida

         Some Things I’ll Never Forget, Working Methods Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, 

         Florida

         Size Matters, Working Methods Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida

         55th Annual Ocala Arts Festival, Emerging Artists Program, Ocala, Florida

         Gallery 621 Member Showcase, Tallahassee, Florida

         A New Renaissance: Featuring Jason John & Amy Bennion, Lemoyne Arts, 

         Tallahassee, Florida

         OPA Online Showcase Spring 2022, Oil Painters of America, Crystal Lake, Illinois

         Stories I Tell Myself, Visionary Art Collective, Brooklyn, New York

         Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Emerging Artists Program, Julian B. Lane Riverfront 

         Park, Tampa, Florida

         Pre[serve] 2022, Lufrano Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

 

2021 Art on BRiC Walls: A Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca 

         Raton, Florida

         Rivers, Women Writing for (a) Change, Jacksonville, Florida 

         Escalante Canyon Art Festival, Escalante, Utah

         Oil Painters of America Convention 2021, Hilton Sante Fe Historic Plaza Hotel, Santa 

         Fe, New Mexico

         Empowered, Rivre Gallerie, St. Petersburg, Florida

         Inside Out City, A Public Art Project, Jacksonville, Florida

         Untethered Thoughts, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida

         Imagination Squared10, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida

         Branches, Women Writing for (a) Change, Jacksonville, Florida

         Genesis 2021, CoCurate 244, Leepa-Ratnew Museum of Art, St. Petersburg College, St. 

         Petersburg, Florida

         Techno Gala: Art & Technology, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida

         Stand, Art Fluent, Online Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

 

2020 Every Color Has a Story, Flagler County Art League, Palm Coast, Florida

         University of North Florida Senior Exhibition, University of North Florida Gallery, 

         Jacksonville, Florida (Lead the installation and curated the exhibition)

         Onward and Upward, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida

         Abstraction and the Surreal, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida

         Pre[serve] 2020, The Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, University of NorthFlorida, 

         Jacksonville, Florida

         Fabulous Fauna, Word Revolt Gallery, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida

         Humanly Possible: Figures & Portraits, St. Augustine Art Association Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida

         2020 Art and Design Juried Student Annual Exhibition, UNF Gallery of Art, University of North                  Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

         “W.A.V.E.”- Women Artists, Haskell Art Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville,                    Florida

 

2019 Clay & Ink, Figure 8 Studio, Jacksonville, Florida

         FemArts: Women in Abstract Art, Fem Arts Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida

         Italy as a Studio Sketchbook Exhibition, University of North Florida, Thomas G. 

         Carpenter Library, Jacksonville, Florida

         2019 Florida Wild, St. Augustine Art Association Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida

         CO2, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida

         Radius Workshop’s Croatia Pop-up Exhibition, Istria, Croatia

         Printed Collaborators, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida, Jacksonville,                    Florida

         Miniature Marvels, St. Augustine Art Association Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida

         UNF Painting and Drawing Guild Juried Exhibition 2019, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach,                     Florida

         Pre[serve] 2019, The Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida

         2019 Art and Design Juried Student Annual Exhibition, UNF Gallery of Art, University of North                  Florida, Jacksonville, Florida 

 

Print Media

2025 Saw Palm Literary Magazine, Spring 2025

 

2024 Five questions: Jiha Moon merges art experience with education at Florida State University, Florida          State University, College if Fine Art News, Tallahassee, Florida, October 23, 2024

         A Reflection on Working with Jiha Moon The Stanley Museum, Written by, Shaun Mallonga,                       University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, August 29, 2024

         Winning artists announced at THOM Collective Exhibition, The Thomasville Times- Enterprise,                  Thomasville, Georgia, June 7, 2024

 

2023 Keats' artwork to be displayed in Grassroots, The Thomasville Times- Enterprise, 

Thomasville, Georgia, November 6, 2023

(A) River Rising: And Justice For All Anthology, Women Writing for (a) Change, 

Oceans and Rivers Anthology, December 2023, Jacksonville, Florida

Six Magazine, June 2023, Florida State University College of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, 

Florida

Talon Review, Spring 2023, March 2023, Jacksonville, Florida

 

2022 St. Augustine Entertainer, December Issue, December 2022

         Rivers Rising: Oceans and Rivers Anthology, Women Writing for (a) Change, Oceans 

         and Rivers Anthology, December 2022, Jacksonville, Florida

         Ocala Gazette, A fine day for the arts, 55th annual Ocala Arts Festival draws thousands 

         to the downtown area., October 26, 2022, https://www.ocalagazette.com/a-fine-day-for-the-arts/

         The Talon Review, Spring 2022, February 2022, Jacksonville, Florida

 

2021 RadX Magazine, Issue No. 5, Focus, March 2021, Jacksonville, Florida

 

2020 RadX Magazine, Issue No.2, Inspire, April 2020, Jacksonville, Florida

         University of North Florida Digital Commons, Pre[serve] Art

         Exhibition 2020, September 2020, Jacksonville, Florida

         “First Friday Art Walk begins at 5 p.m,” The St. Augustine Record, October 2020, St. Augustine,                   Florida

         The Talon Review, Fall 2020, December 2020, Jacksonville, Florida

 

2019 University of North Florida Digital Commons, Pre[serve] Art Exhibition 2019, March 

         2019, Jacksonville, Florida

 

Teaching Experience

2025   Adjunct Professor, Chipola College, Marianna, Florida

 

2025   Instructor of Drawing 2 at Florida State University, Spring 2025, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2024   Instructor of Beginning Painting at Florida State University, Fall 2024, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2023   Instructor of 2D Design at Florida State University, Fall 2023-Spring 2024, Tallahassee, Florida

-2024

 

Related Experience

2024 Studio/Mural Assistant for Jiha Moon at the University of Iowa, Stanley Museum, Summer 2024,                Iowa City, Iowa

          Board Member for the College of Fine Art Leadership Council, Florida State University

          Sustainable Campus Representative, Sustainable Campus, Florida State University

 

2023 Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Mentor, Fall 2023-Spring 2025, Florida 

-2025 State University, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2023- Volunteer at the Thomasville Center for the Arts

present November 2023-Present

 

2022- Graduate Assistant at Florida State University, Assistant to Anne Stagg and Liz DiDonna

2024 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2023 Communications Officer, Fall 2023, Graduate Assistants United/United Faculty of 

Florida, Florida State, University, Tallahassee, Florida

Summer Camp Art Instructor, Lemoyne Art Center, Tallahassee, Florida

 

2020- Gallery Director/Manager at Sweetwater Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida

2022

 

2019- Elementary School Art Teacher at Emma Love Hardee Elementary School, Fernandina 

2020 Beach, Florida

 

2019 Intern at Art with a Heart, Wolfson’s Childrens Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida

 

Lectures/Artist Talks

2026 Touch Tank, Artist Talk at the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Collaboration 

with Fried Fruit Gallery, University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), 

Wilmington, North Carolina (Scheduled)

Artist Talk at The Studios of Key West, The Studios of Key West, Key West, Florida 

(Scheduled)

 

2025 SECAC 2025, Painting Isn’t Dead: Painting in the Expanded Field (chair), Cincinnati, 

Ohio

Breaking Binaries: Hybrid Processes Artist Talk, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State 

University, Jonesboro, Arkansas

Fresh Squeezed 9 Artist Talk, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida

Touch Tank, MFA Thesis Talk, FSU Museum of Fine Art (FSU MoFA), Tallahassee, 

Florida

RAW 2025, Research, Art, Writing Conference, University of Texas Dallas, Dallas, Texas

Locust Technician Artist Talk, Venvi Gallery and the Tallahassee Cultural Council, 

Tallahassee, Florida

 

2024 2024 SECAC Conference, Studio Art, MFA Candidates: Surveying the Variety Among 

Emerging Artists, Painting in the Expanded Field: A Cyborg Approach to Painting 

and Installation, Atlanta, Georgia

Art and Environmental Activism, Environmental Service Program, Florida State 

University, Tallahassee, Florida

Open, December 1, 2023, Thomasville Center for the Arts, Thomasville, Georgia

 

2023 Rivers & Oceans Anthology Discussion/Art Talk, March 23, 2023, Florida State 

College, Jacksonville, Florida

 

Gallery Affiliation

2024-present Florida Mining Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida

2022-present Sweetwater Coffee Bar & Gallery

 

Professional Memberships

SECAC/Southeastern College Art Conference Member

FATE Conference Member

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