Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun
Born 1977 in Kyoto, Japan. Lives and works in Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
Paper Cosmologies: Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s Floating Worlds, The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH
2025
Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun: Floating Worlds, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami
2023
Project Atrium: 幽霊 Yūrei (Ghosts), Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
SHIBARI, The Corner Gallery, Jessie Ball duPont Center, Jacksonville, FL.
2022
Paper Thin & Shadow Deep: Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s Cut Paper Art, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
2019
Inside Out, Cathedral Arts Project, Heather Moore Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2016
Shadows of the Floating World: Paper Cuts by Hiromi Moneyhun, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL
Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun, Beaches Museum & History Park, Jacksonville Beach, FL
2014
Under the Rose, Florida Mining Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2013
UKIYO: The Floating World, Kent Gallery, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
2012
Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun, Jacksonville International Airport, Connector Bridge Art Display Cases, Jacksonville, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2027
Becoming, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
2026
Art in Bloom, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
2025
2025 Award Finalists: Jax Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Project Atrium: Muralists in Action (contributing artist), MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Material World: Transcending the Object in Collage & Assemblage Works from the Permanent Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Jax Contemporary: MOCA Jacksonville Arts Triennial, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
2024
Coined in the South: 2024, Mint Museum Uptown, Charlotte, NC
ArtFields, Lake City, SC
2022
Beyond the Wall: Visions of the Asian Experience in America, Morikami Museum, Delray Beach, FL
The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
We Build This City, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
2021
Art Ventures 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
FLORIDARAMA, Fairgrounds St. Pete, St. Petersburg, FL
2020
Nameless Now, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
Into the Blue, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC
2018
Sum+Substance, Space Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
2017
Discovering American Art Now, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Discovering American Art Now, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
2016
Pierce, Mark, Morph, Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami
Lift Every Voice and Sing: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience, Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL
2015
2015 Art Ventures Grant Awards Artists, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
Face Forward, Haskell Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville, FL
Story Line: Wiley, Howard & Moneyhun, Westobou Gallery, Augusta, GA
Obelisk Art 450, St. Augustine, FL
The REFLECTIONS: Artful Perspectives of the St. Johns River, Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Three Wishes, Gallery 180, Stanley Beaman & Sears, Atlanta, GA
2014
State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Paper Reveries, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), New York
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Paper as Art, Cornell Museum of Art and American Culture, Delray Beach, FL
2013
North of Modern, Florida Mining Gallery, Art Basel Miami, Miami
Cut Paint Draw, CoRK Art District, Jacksonville, FL
2012
Grune Family Gallery, Players by the Sea, Jacksonville Beach, FL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2026
Cool Hunting, “Highlights from Miami Art Week 2025,” January 5
2025
Kayli Higgins, “When Paper Breathes,” Biscayne Times, September 3
Miami Palm Beach Today, “Where Art Meets Atmosphere: Hiromi Moneyhun at Morikami, Eden Roc,” December 20
2023
904 Happy Hour, “New Work by Jacksonville Artist Installed in MOCA Jacksonville’s Atrium,” April 26
2022
State of the Art Creatives You Need To Know,” Florida Design, Vol. 32, No. 4, Winter 2022–23.
2021
Nila Do Simon, “Finding Luck With Jacksonville Artist Hiromi Moneyhun,” Flamingo Magazine, May 10
2019
Folio Weekly, “A Cut Above,” April 13
Arbus Magazine, “Inside Out, an exhibition by Hiromi Moneyhun,” March 7
2016
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, “10 Questions with Paper-Cut Artist Hiromi Moneyhun,” December 16
Gretel Sarmiento, “At the Morikami, paper cuts of another world by very steady hands,” Palm Beach ArtsPaper, July 3
Joann Plockova, “Making the Cut,” Venice Magazine, Summer
Miami Herald, “Coming to the Morikami,” June 3
2015
Perversion Magazine, “Cutting Across the Road to Enlightenment,” Issue 4
Florida Times-Union, “A Cut Above,” June 13
First Coast Magazine, “The Way To Kirie,” May
2014
Arbus Magazine, “This Is Where We Meet / Creative Portraits,” December
Folio Weekly, “Moneyhun’s ‘Under the Rose,'” August 27
Joanelle Mulrain, “Paper Cutting An Art Form by Hiromi Moneyhun,” Folio Weekly, October 16
Huffington Post, “Japanese-Born Artist Brings Fantasies to Life in Enormous, Paper-Cut Masterpieces,” October 6
Florida Times-Union, “Two Unheralded Jacksonville Artists Recognized,” September 6
Don Bacigalupi, ed., State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now (exhibition catalogue), Bentonville, AR: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
2013
Daniel A. Brown, “Hiromi Moneyhun: UKIYO: The Floating World at The Kent Gallery, Florida,” Aesthetica Magazine, October 2
Arbus Magazine, “Cutting Into the Present,” September
Folio Weekly, “Exacting Art,” June
ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE
2023
Moving the Margins Artist-in-Residence Program, Jacksonville, FL
2020
Long Road Projects + Erie Arts & Culture, Erie, PA
SELECTED AWARDS
2023
Honorable Mention, Society 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
2022
People’s Choice Award, The Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2015
Art Ventures Grant, The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida, Jacksonville, FL
SELECTED LECTURES, PANELS & WORKSHOPS
2026
The Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Paper Cosmologies, Artist Remarks, Westerville, OH
2025
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Teaching Artist, Jacksonville, FL
2024
University of North Florida / MOCA Jacksonville, Studio Practice: Papercutting, Instructor, Jacksonville, FL
Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Teaching Artist, Two Workshops, Jacksonville, FL
2023
MOCA Jacksonville, Project Atrium Brunch & Learn, Artist Presentation, Jacksonville, FL
Appleton Museum of Art, Florida-Style Kyo Uchiwa Fan Workshop, Instructor, Ocala, FL
Appleton Museum of Art, Artist-Led Gallery Tours, Ocala, FL
2022
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Prize, Artist Panel, Orlando, FL
Morikami Museum, Beyond the Wall, Artist Symposium, Delray Beach, FL
2020
Morikami Museum, Workshop Instructor, Delray Beach, FL
2016
Beaches Museum & History Park, Artist Gallery Tour, Jacksonville Beach, FL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL
Frank Museum of Art, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH
TEACHING/ VISITING ARTIST
2016
Peyton Endowed Visiting Artist Program, visiting-artist appointment, The Bolles School, Jacksonville, FL.