Mona Caron is the daughter of Swiss theater and opera set designer Peter Bissegger, and of couturière Elisabeth Bissegger. She is originally from the Centovalli region of Ticino, in the italian-speaking canton of Switzerland. After 3 years of liberal arts studies at the University of Zürich, she relocated to San Francisco where she attended the Academy of Art, graduating with honors in 1996, B.F.A. in Illustration.

Mona works as a freelance illustrator and public muralist in San Francisco, California (contact information). Clients include Sun Microsystems, Bloomberg, Highlights For Children, Weldon Owen, Leapfrog, Scholastic, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Tyndale, Holt, Reinhardt and Winston, CMP Media, the AARP, Tbd advertisement, and others.

Mona illustrated the children's book The Boy Without a Name by Afghan philosopher and author Idries Shah, published by Hoopoe/Malor Books, Palo Alto 2000.

As a muralist, Mona has received several awards and honors for her public murals in the San Francisco Bay Area, which include the Market Street Railway mural and the 6000 square-foot Duboce Bikeway mural. She also does private commissions for companies and individuals.

She was part-time faculty at the Academy of Art University from 2000 to 2004, teaching illustration.

Mona has worked with her father Peter Bissegger on three-dimensional projects for museum exhibits in Europe (notably fine art shows by curator Harald Szeemann) as well as in Brazil. Such work included sculpting, molding and casting scale replicas of neoclassical statuary for scale models, and surface detail work on P. Bissegger's reconstruction of lost works by Oskar Schlemmer and Kurt Schwitters' MERZbau, for exhibits at the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) Vienna, Austria; MOMA Houston; Museu Oskar Niemeyer, Curitiba, Brazil; and other venues.

Mona occasionally does pro-bono artwork in collaboration with progressive groups, including graphics and three dimentional props.

Fluent languages: Italian, English, Swiss-German, German, French, Spanish.