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Youjin Moon is a South Korean artist and experimental filmmaker based in Boston.  Moon earned two MFAs in 2D Fine Arts and Film/Video from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She received a BFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University in Seoul. Moon has shown her works at national and international film festivals and exhibitions, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, the deCordova New England Biennial, and the solo film program at Harvard Film Archive. She received the Korean EXiS Award at the 12th and 16^th Seoul International Experimental Film and Video Festival. Moon’s works have been featured in the Boston Globe and Art New England, among other publications. She is an Assistant Professor in Studio Foundation at MassArt.

Using light as a material connection between painting and film, Moon has expanded her abstract paintings into the painterly surfaces of cameraless films and digital videos. Through the fusion of media, she brings in tactile and expressive qualities to her digital compositions. Moon’s layered worlds navigate the realms between inner and outer, micro and macro, and natural and constructed.