Patricia & Phillip Frost: Hiromi Moneyhun

Hiromi Moneyhun moved to Jacksonville, Florida, in 2004 from her hometown of Kyoto, Japan. She began drawing at a young age, and by her teens she had already developed a style of her own. Moneyhun’s artistic voice combines the traditional Japanese visual art form of paper cutting called kirie with the super-modernity that now identifies Japan’s biggest cities.   

Moneyhun’s cut paper pieces are at once amusingly lighthearted and startlingly alive. Her series, Under the Rose is on view in the museum’s exhibition, Pierce, Mark, Morph. In this series, Moneyhun creates a composite portrait of women from tribal cultures found around the world. Each detailed paper portrait displays the traditional tattoos, jewelry, and body piercings from each respective culture. In Chin, seen above, Moneyhun captures the intricate face tattoos worn by women in the Chin tribe located in Myanmar. 

Visitors to the museum can view Hiromi Moneyhun’s work in the exhibition, Pierce, Mark, Morph, on view until February 12, 2017.