Hiromi Moneyhun
Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun is a papercut artist. Born and raised in Japan's ancient capital of Kyoto, she moved to Jacksonville in 2004. Hiromi has been mentioned in every major publication in the Jacksonville area, including its largest newspaper the Florida Times Union. She has been featured in Huffington Post and was the subject of an episode of a syndicated Japanese television show. Moneyhun was awarded a show in 2022 at the Orlando Museum of Art, as a participant in The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, one of only ten artists invited. Her exhibition Paper Thin & Shadow Deep showed at the Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL, in 2023. Her work has been exhibited throughout Florida in group and solo shows, as well as in New York and London. Hiromi was selected for a Project Atrium installation MOCA Jacksonville in 2023, 幽 霊 Yūrei (Ghosts). It called attention to the state of our oceans. Utilizing her unique papercut technique on an unprecedented scale, Moneyhun urged us to recognize the urgency of the moment. Her work asks if it is too late to stop mankind's damage to our oceans, or if there is still hope. Hiromi began drawing at a young age, and by her teen years had developed a style of her own. With no formal art training, she has evolved a unique, homegrown artistic voice that combines traditional Japanese visual art forms with the super-modernity of Japan’s biggest cities. Hiromi’s three-dimensional cut paper pieces are the result of a multistep process that generates an art that is at once amusingly lighthearted and startlingly alive.