Joan Moment was born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania in 1938. She received her B.S. from the University of Connecticut in 1960 and her M.F.A. from the University of Colorado in 1970. Her paintings have been widely shown throughout the country and in major museums in Brazil. She has had thirty-six one-person shows including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N.C.; California State University, Sacramento; an eleven-year survey show at the Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA; most recently at JAYJAY Gallery, Sacramento, CA and Meridian Gallery in San Francisco, CA. A solo show at California State University, Stanislaus and accompanying catalog is planned for February 2006.

Joan Moment's work has been exhibited in group shows at the Whitney Museum of Americ.an Art, New York; Oakland Museum, California; San Jose Museum of Art, California; Long Beach Art Museum, California; Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Bergen Museum of Art, Paramus, New Jersey; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California; University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; University of California, Davis, California; University of the Pacific, Stockton, California; Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California; Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento; California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California; Temporary/Contemporary, Las Vegas, Nevada; Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California; and the San Francisco Museum of Art's Artist Gallery, San Francisco, California; Palo Alto Cultural Art Center, Palo Alto, California; Eastern Washington State University, Cheney, Washington; and San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco.

Joan Moment's work is represented in numerous public and private collections, among them: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, College, Ohio; Bongo + Post Music, Sacramento, California; California State University, Sacramento, California; City of Sacramento, Art In Public Places; CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Gregory Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College, Sacramento; Kaiser Permanente, Sacramento, Fresno, Modesto, California; New York State Development Corporation, New York, New York; Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; The Richard L. Nelson Gallery and Fine arts Collection, University of California, Davis, California; Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Carol Miller Justice Center, Sacramento, California; Sacramento County Primary Care Center, Sacramento, California; and Security Pacific National Bank, Huntington Beach. Los Angeles, and Laguna Beach, California.

Joan Moment has been a Professor of Painting at California State University, Sacramento from 1970 to the present. She has taught and lectured at numerous universities as Artist- In-Residency, among them: at Princeton University; University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC; Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; and Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA.