Hyoji was born in 1978 in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to North America in 2002. She spent more than sixteen years living across Canada and the United States, where she built a professional career in the animation industry. Based in Vancouver for nearly eight years, she worked on a wide range of international animation projects, including well-known titles such as Pucca and My Little Pony, contributing as a designer and color stylist. Through this experience, she developed a refined sensitivity to color, storytelling, and emotional expression, skills that later became a foundation for her fine art practice.

After years of working within commercial animation, Hyoji returned to Korea to begin a new chapter as a fine art artist, focusing fully on her own creative vision. Her artworks are deeply inspired by nature and fairy-tale imagination, where innocence and emotion coexist. The childlike characters that appear in her paintings are not merely cute figures, but emotional beings that embody the vitality and energy of life felt when encountering nature. Through these characters, she expresses feelings of comfort, warmth, and gentle joy. Hyoji’s work aims to offer healing and positive energy to viewers, inviting them to reconnect with innocence and rediscover quiet happiness within themselves.