Momo Kim was born in Seoul in 1992. She studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York. After graduation, she lived in Vietnam for a while and worked on new media projects that introduced iPad painting. She is currently working actively in Seoul.

Momokim's work is about the meaning of life and the well-being of everyday life, using a variety of materials found in contemporary daily life. In her work, she tries to represent the individual's life and express the contemporary life by collecting one by one pieces from the daily life of a private space to the moment of a simple outdoor activity. By creating a vague encounter between pure art and illustration, she breaks the boundaries of classic artworks while showing kitsch with a lot of decorative elements. Momok Kim's works are inspired by various cultural areas such as Korea, New York, and Vietnam. She creates works based on her own experiences and memories, using daily life, folk beliefs, and totems as materials. Momok Kim's works are stories about the lives and identities of people living in contemporary times. She wants to remember the importance of everyday life and the meaning of life through her work. In Greek, a painter is known as "someone who draws everyday life". For many people, home is a place where personal history resides.

All of the objects at home remembers moments in life and have contemporaneous characteristics. By recording these objects through art, the objects portrayed on canvas represent moments in daily life and functions as a memento, keeping the history behind safe. People often try their hardest to keep their daily life intact and even thrive just to have an ordinary life. Like many others, in order to protect her daily lives, Momo Kim used scenes at home that keeps her calm and reminds her of precious moments and turned it into art using her techniques and style. Her artwork not only functions as her safe of memories but also as represents her eager desire to keep her ordinary daily life intact. Using hashtags, randomly find and use memes, movie scenes, Instagram images, master paintings and posters. The selected image gives a glimpse of contemporary life. The thoughts and feelings of living in this era are revealed in Momo Kim's works, and the infinite images used lightly in the present era have been sublimated into works of art. The title briefly describes the source of the random image and includes hashtags for the owner of the randomly obtained source to find, along with the hashtags used in the search. In other words, it is a sign of a source. The main patterns of our daily life are created and reproduced by combining pieces of the endless images that are readily available through the smartphone in our hands. Other than these creative activities, MoMo artworks about her daily thoughts or create installations that reflect her life. Whenever she feels lonely, MoMo creates abstract or collage works using her favorite images.