Amy
Moon
Media:
Painting

Studio Location:
43-01 22nd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101
Room/Studio#
103
Website:
Artist Bio:
Amy Moon (b.1999, Seoul, South Korea) is a visual artist working across painting, drawing, and collage. She creates layered, mixed-media paintings exploring themes of perception, transformation, and belonging. Her work, shaped by her experiences moving through urban ecosystems of Seoul, Los Angeles, and New York, captures the dissolution and reconstruction of identity through ripped posters and natural phenomena to explore how we perceive and contain the uncontainable. Her work has been exhibited at IRL Gallery, Hox Gallery, SVA, U.S Department of Education Headquarters, and various artist-run spaces in New York and Los Angeles. She received her BA from Columbia University and currently lives and works in New York, NY.
Artist Statement:
My worked explores themes of perception, belonging, and transformation. In exploring these themes I’m really interested in creating images through a layered painting processes where these states of becoming and erosion/ decay are unfolding simultaneously.
While my visual language draws from landscape and natural phenomena, it does so through a mediated lens—one shaped by technology and screen-based perception. I seek inspirations from construction sites or scaffoldings as they are markers of transition - architectures where identity feels unsettled. I reference these ripped walls or unfinished walls in my work as abstracted, reworked surfaces to evoke the sense of transformation.
Water, cyclical and elusive, is important for my process materially and symbolically. I study how it seeps and pools across surfaces, reacts to pressure, and disperses layered applications of airbrush, ink, pastel, and paint. By mixing these materials, I work in between painting and drawing, creating a tension between clarity and blur through both control and surrender to the materials. Beyond the physical, water carries symbolic weight in my work, evoking migration, place-lessness, and interconnectedness.
My work invites viewers to ask: How do we locate ourselves in ever-changing landscapes, both physical and psychological? How does technology contribute to our sense of perpetual flux? And what is real, what is remembered, and what is simply a matter of perception?