Hyung Min Moon

Hyungmin Moon majored in fine art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and received his MA for fine art from California State University in Los Angeles, California. Moon has concentrated on various media art works often by using photographs. His works attract attention with vivid colors and keen design sense in it. The artist pursues formal completeness but, at the same time, his works indirectly express social-level ideas that go beyond simple and formative-level ideas or individual taste. In other words, Moon’s works are of modernism and aestheticism in their formative framework, but the message underneath it is rather social. Through such contradiction or co-existence between the form and content, he switches social issues with communication or signs, which are generally considered “clear”, into “unclear” and “obscure” issues. In the meantime, he puts “unclear”personal sense or experiences into the “clear” domain of sign. In Moon’s works, “specialty and universality” and “individual and society” interwind and infiltrate one another.