Moon Shin, born in Japan in 1922, spent his childhood in Masan. He enrolled in an art school in Tokyo, Japan at the age of 16, and after returning to his home country, held around 10 solo exhibitions displaying his paintings and relief sculptures. In 1961, he relocated to France in order to experience a new world of art, and began devoting himself to producing abstract paintings and sculptures. He came to global prominence through being displayed at the International Sculpture Symposium in Port Barcares, France in 1970. After holding exhibitions in countries around the world, including France, Germany, Switzerland, and Iran, he finally settled down in his hometown Masan in 1980. After returning to Korea, he became one of the twenty-four artists invited to France for an international exhibition to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution, and his works were exhibited through the European Tour: A Retrospective and Moon Shin’s Art: Retrospective. He was awarded the Officier de Légion d'Honneur in France and the Sejong Culture Award in Korea. standing 25m tall at the Seoul Olympic Park was produced in celebration of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul and is one of his most well-known works. After establishing his own museum in his hometown of Masan, which was his old-cherished wish, he unfortunately passed away due to an illness in 1995. He was posthumously awarded the Geumgwan (Golden Crown) Order of Cultural Merit, and honoring his dying words. his art museum was donated to Masan City and reopened as the Masan Moon Shin Art Museum (April 2004). Then, according to the wishes of his surviving widow, Choi Seong-sook, who wanted to share the late artist’s world of art with as many people as possible, Moon Shin Museum (May 2004) was opened at Sookmyung Women’s University.