Tang Jo-Hung was born in 1975 in Taipei, Taiwan, and is a highly representative artist among those born in Taiwan after the 1970s. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at Tunghai University and obtained a Master’s degree in Art from the University of Salamanca, Spain, in 2002. He has exhibited in museums across northern, central, and southern Taiwan, as well as in Spain. His accolades include the first prize at the Premio San Marco in Spain, the first prize at the 22nd Kaohsiung Fine Arts Award, and the winner of the 8th Liao Chi-Chun Painting Award (2008). In 2016, he won the top prize at the Taipei Prize, and in 2023, his solo exhibition titled "You, with No Worries" — "From Plague to War: A Dual Interpretation of Disaster as Celebration" won the annual grand prize at the 21st Taishin Art Award, making him the first recipient in Taishin's history to win a major award for painting.

Tang Jo-Hung’s works are held in the collections of the Salamanca Museum in Spain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, National Palace Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of History, Central Art Museum, and various private collections in Taiwan and abroad. He prefers to paint on fiberboard, finding its characteristics more suitable for oil paint than canvas. He is dedicated to a painterly vocabulary, with his work exhibiting rich formal textures and delicate, intriguing imagery.