Born in Taoyuan, Taiwan in 1955, Wei Jane Chir lives and works in New York. She studied painting and printmaking at San Francisco State University in the U.S. and then went to Germany to study painting and obtained her Master of Fine Art from Berlin University of Art in 1992. Chir uses a wide range of media, including oil painting, printmaking, ink wash painting, and Egg-tempera. She has been making art for over three decades.