Mijoo Kim was born 1983 in Seoul, South Korea. She is a Korean visual artist who is currently based in New York. She is a multidisciplinary artist and educator. She creates documentary and conceptual bodies of artwork, Female divers in South Korea, Re-Figure and Role-play. She received her Master of Fine Art emphasis in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, her Bachelor of Fine art with an emphasis in photography from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, IL in 2010.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally such as Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Ackland Museum, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Asia Contemporary Art Show in Hong Kong 2015, Cameron Art Museum in Wilmington, and Seoul Auction Center Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.