LUN*NA MENOH
Lun*na Menoh is a Japanese-born Renaissance artist who lives in Los Angeles. Her work deals with garments that expose the invisible thread between performance and fabric by making sculpturesque dresses, paintings, sculptures, and a series of runway shows with her conceptual but wearable outfits. Starting In 1999, she made a series of paintings of men’s white shirts that are given a dirty, stained ring around the collar. In early 2005, she started making music, and currently performs as LesSewing Sisters. In 2019 Les Sewing Sisters held a musical tour through 22 closets of private homes in Los Angeles. Their pop songs are about dresses and dressmaking but are approached with experimental touches, such as using the sewing machine as a musical instrument. Their debut album was released in 2021 with Lun*na Menoh’s performance of Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero” using Sewing machine noise.
Her work has been exhibited at MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, LosAngeles, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, and the Hayward Gallery,London. Since the early 1990s she has presented work at Los Angeles art spaces and venues including Sue Spaid Fine Art, Beyond Baroque, Track 16 Gallery, Velaslavasay Panorama, and South Coast Plaza.
Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum inLondon.
Menoh lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Text courtesy TOTAH.
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