Lun*na World

Lun*na Menoh is a Japanese born Renaissance artist who lives in Los Angeles. Her work deals with fashion, clothing and exposing the invisible thread between performance and fabric by making sculpturisque dresses, paintings, and a series of fashion shows with her conceptual but wearable outfits.

One of her dresses is in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Also one of her original dresses/artwork was part of the "Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion" exhibition that took place at the Hayward Gallery, London in 1998.

Her multi-disciplinary art project "Dirty White Shirt Collars" which includes paintings, music, DVD, and a fashion show/performance received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation in New York in 2005. The presentation of this project took place at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica.

Menoh also has done many design works including event costumes at MOCA for Takashi Murakami and Andy Warhol as well as designing Uniforms for the Japanese styled cafe/shop/art space "Royal/T" which focuses on Contemporary art and Pop Culture Japanese artifacts.

Since 2001, Menoh started working in music. Participated in a band called "Seksu Roba (Eenie Meenie Records) who were nominated by LA Weekly Music Award in 2003 and 2004. Toured in Europe, Japan and the U.S.A., including MOCA, LACMA, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

In 2006 Menoh started her own band called "Jean Paul Yamamoto" featuring her costumes with a combination of art performance, rock n' roll theatrics and intense sounds with the aid of fellow band members ex DEVO drummer Alan Myers and avant-guitarist Shin Kawasaki plus back-up singers/dancers Ayako and Moeko that flirts adventurously with the sound of Pop, Punk, Electro-Funk and Enka.