Taylor Moon Castagnari

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Taylor Moon Castagnari is a contemporary, American artist and professor of design at California State University, San Bernardino. Her primary mediums are animation and digital illustration.

Moon received a double major in Studio Art, BA, and Art History, BA at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received a Master of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Oxford.

In August 2022, her solo-exhibition, "The Drive-Thru Nation – Symbolic Representations of Flags in Everyday Life," was exhibited at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art. In this exhibit, she features artist Samson Kambalu in a combined interview and animation.

In February 2023, she garnered another solo-exhibition at the Sasse Museum of Art for her show, "The Balancing Act – Art, Psychology, and Technique in American Cheerleading."

Moon was the subject of Samson Kambalu's "artist pick" in Frieze, December 2020. In this article, her work "The Nomad" is highlighted.

Her animation, "The Faces of Each Generation," was displayed by Las Laguna Art Gallery's exhibition, Icons (September, 2021). Her work, “Lost and De-Colonial,” was exhibited in 2020 by Next Museum, a virtual museum in partnership with Museum Ulm and NRW Forum.

Moon took part in the exhibition, “Living-Room: In Between Realms” at Open-Walls, a virtual museum based out of Southeast Los Angeles (2020). She displayed her animated film, "The Quarantine from a Digital Virus" at the Spiva Art Gallery in Joplin, Missouri (August, 2020). Her work, "Wake and Review" was displayed within the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum in June, 2017. The American Medical Association’s Journal of Ethics published Moon's animation, "Walk with Me," in an article entitled, "An Animated Portrait of Inaccessibly High-Cost Care" (August, 2021). Her work, “The Greatest Show – Parallels Between Museums and Circuses” was exhibited in the 2023 GAMMA International Invited Art Exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. This work was also featured in Decagon Gallery's FLASH #5 exhibition.

Moon became an Assistant Professor of Design at Missouri Southern State University at the age of 22. She later went on to teach as an Assistant Professor of Design at California State University, San Bernardino.