Moe Satt was born in Yangon, Myanmar in 1983. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he and his young family took refuge after the Myanmar military coup of 2021. Moe started creating art after graduating from East Yangon University where he earned a degree in Zoology in 2005. In the 2000s he and others spearheaded a new generation of emerging contemporary Burmese artists.