James “JD” Moore was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, and has been working as a full time artist in the Dallas/Fort Worth area since 2013. After graduating high school in 2010, he started a tattoo apprenticeship at Last Angels Tattoo Co. in Dallas, under Gerald Garcia and graduated to Artist two years later. He began to seriously pursue a career in studio art in 2017 with a membership to a shared studio space, The Basement Gallery in Oak Cliff, TX,  which later became Elevate Studios. This space, which remained open until 2020, allowed Moore to collaborate with other artists in various disciplines and expand his artistic network. While he focused on oil on canvas paintings primarily, he also practiced studio photography and learned to use a 3 axis CNC router, a laser cutting machine, and CAD (Computer aided design) 3d modeling software. He was selected to attend artist residencies in France and Italy during this time, where he began to paint larger works and ultimately inspired him to pursue public mural painting back in the States. In 2022, JD was selected to join Cohort 3 at Cedars Union in Dallas, TX, a competitive eighteen month juried residency program, within which he debuted his first solo exhibition at Pencil On Paper Gallery in Dallas, TX.