Najja
Moon
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.
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I'm Practicing.Practicing.
how to feel.
how to learn.
how to love, how to remember.
CV
2025
Mate Masie
Solo Show at Tunnel Projects, Miami, FL
2024
Uncommon Routes
Basketball Court Commission for Project Backboard in partnerhsip with Big Face, The Salty Donut and JDS Sports
Face Arena
Group Show at Central Fine Gallery, Miami, FL
As We Move Forward
Group Show at Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2023
AIM Biennial
Publication, Miami, FL
Of Mango, y Magia, ah Mirak
Group Show, Miami, FL
Portrait at 34
Commissioned for the O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami, FL
2022
What if the Matriarchy was here all along
Group Show at Altadena Library, Los Angeles, CA
Blueprint
Group Show at Bridge Red Studios, North Miami, FL
Dust Specks on the Sea
Group Show at Villa du Parc Contemporary Art Center, Annemasse, France
2021
Dust Specks on the Sea
Group Show at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA and 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
The Design Shop
Group Show at Tile Blush, Miami, FL
Reading Reflections/time Sensitive Hopscotch
Public Art Commission at MOCA, North Miami, FL
2020
Combined Strength
Group Show at Minotti, Miami, FL
Global/Borderless Caribbean XII: Focus Miami
Group Show at Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Miami, FL
Dust Specks on the Sea
Group Show at Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Grounded
Group Show at Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
2 and a possible
Supplement Projects x Arts.Black, Miami, FL
Currents
Group Show at Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
2018
Paradise Summit
Group Show at Emerson Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Visions of the Future
Group Show at Little Haiti Cultural Complex, Miami, FL
BLCK Lunch
Creative Time Summit, Miami, FL
