Najja Moon (b. 1986) is a Miami based artist, born and raised in Durham, North Carolina. Her arts practice uses drawing, text and sound to explore the intersections of queer identity, the body and movement, black culture and familiar relations both personal and communal. A preacher’s kid and daughter of musicians raised on gospel music and HBCU’s, before she committed to being an artist full time, she was a basketball player who used to be a kid who wanted to be an artist. Her art practice has in some ways become the probing of these intersections. 

Moon is the inaugural artist to be commissioned by the Bass Museum for their “New Monuments” series. In 2024, she was commissioned by Project Backboard to revitalize a basketball court in the city of Miami. Completed in December 2024, the work, Uncommon Routes, is on view in Legion Park. She is also the winner of a 2020 Knight New Work Grant for her ongoing project “The Huddle is a Prayer Circle”. Other recent exhibitions and commissions included: Solo Show, Mate Masie at Tunnel, in Miami, FL, Face Arena at Central Fine Gallery in Miami, FL, As We Move Forward at UMASS Amherst, What if the Matriarchy was here all along at the Altadena Library in Los Angeles, CA (2022) and Dust Specks on the Sea at Villa du Parc Contemporary Art Center in Annemasse, France(2022).