14 Facts About Joan Moment

Joan Moment was born on 1938 and is an American painter based in Northern California.

Joan Moment emerged from the 1960s Northern California Funk art movement and gained attention when the Whitney Museum of American Art Curator Marcia Tucker selected her for the 1973 Biennial and for a solo exhibition at the Whitney in 1974.

Joan Moment's work belongs to the public art collections of the Crocker and Oakland Museums, the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the City of Sacramento, among others.

Joan Moment was born in rural Sellersville, Pennsylvania, in 1938, and raised in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Joan Moment earned BS and RN degrees from the University of Connecticut, where, after graduating in 1960, she worked as a psychiatric and public health RN.

Joan Moment earned an MFA at the University of Colorado Boulder, studying under Funk artist William T Wiley and painter and sculptor Roland Reiss.

In 1970, Joan Moment accepted a teaching position at California State University, Sacramento, where she taught sculpture, painting and art history until retiring in 2004.

Joan Moment began exhibiting in Northern California, participating in group shows at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Oakland Museum and the Crocker Art Museum.

Joan Moment has worked with varied materials ranging from early mixed media quilts made of cut-up balloons to reliefs made of painted neoprene rubber embedded with layers of gauze or rubber latex.

Joan Moment has made paintings on vellum, canvas, paper and wood.

Joan Moment's work belongs to the public collections of universities, corporations and museums, including the Allen Memorial Art Museum; California State University, Sacramento; Crocker Art Museum; Hallie Ford Museum of Art; Manetti Shrem Museum of Art; and Oakland Museum of Art, among others.

Joan Moment has received artist-in-residence awards sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Between 1993 and 2011, Joan Moment created six public art projects.

Joan Moment created public works for the University of California, Davis Medical Center and California State University, and two paintings for American River College's Science and Design building.