Najja Moon

Miami, FL

June 1- 30, 2020

ARTIST STATEMENT

Najja Moon is a Miami based artist and arts organizer with a practice centered around the idea that art is utilitarian. Her practice is an amalgamation of practicalities that improve her life; design and language, cultural responsibility and community. In her visual arts practice she uses drawing and text to explore the intersections of queer identity, the body and movement, black culture and familiar relations both personal and communal. 

BIO

Najja Moon is a Miami based artist and cultural practitioner, born and raised in North Carolina. Her most recent exhibitions included: Dust Specks on the Sea, 2020, Little Haiti Cultural Center (Miami); Grounded, 2019, Spinello Projects (Miami); SPRTS Issue 9, 2019, Endless Editions, NYABF @MoMA PS1 (New York);  How to Patch a Leaky Roof, 2019, Commissioned by O, Miami (Miami); 2 & a possible, 2019, Supplement Projects x Arts.Black (Miami); Project Art: Currents, 2019, Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami); Paradise Summit Miami, 2018, Emerson Dorsch Gallery (Miami). 

In 2015, She Co-Founded the BLCK family a Miami based creative collective responsible for the installation of mobile performance art shows centered around culinary, visual, performing and social arts.  She Co-Founded the former queer social club for womxn, This Girls luncbox (2017-2019), that centered art as a convening point.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: gypsysocialite.com

Instagram: @najjak