Artist Biography

          Heejung Moon, a native South Korean, found her life and career forever changed after watching a scene from the movie Ghost as a senior in high school. The film's depiction of wheeling throwing captured her heart and guided her to choose ceramics as a career. Soon after, she was admitted as a first-tier student to the college of art and physical education at Gangneung-Wonju National University in 1992. She graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in craft arts and was accredited as a grade II secondary school teacher. In 2002, she passed the competitive examination to be licensed as a public-school teacher under the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education. During her time as a public servant, she taught computer graphics, homepage design, and ceramics. While at Seoul Technical High School, she chaired the ceramics department from 2014 to 2016. In 2016, she moved to the United States of America with her family where she studied for 30 credit hours at Texas Southmost College as an art major before being accepted to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley as a graduate student in 2019.