The purpose of this scoping review is to synthesize domestic and international scholarly literature on VR based art therapy. To collect and extract data, the authors searched through six online databases: RISS, NADL, DBpia, Pubmed, PsycINFO, Science Direct. In the end, 21 articles were analyzed. The results reveal that VR based art therapy research has rapidly grown in volume since 2020, conducted in various academic fields such as in the fields of art and the arts therapies (n 6), psychology (n 5), medicine (n 4), and engineering (n 3). Of a total of 21 articles, literature review types (n 7) accounted for the largest proportion, while the remaining 14 articles involved research participants. The research participants were mostly adults (n 6), and, in addition, several studies were conducted on stroke patients and professional art therapists. They were provided with art related interventions in the VR environment, classified into art therapy and art making based on the presence or absence of art therapists. This categorization resulted in 4 art therapy interventions and 10 art making interventions. The majority of interventions were delivered in a short term format, either as a single session or two to four sessions. This review is significant in that it synthesized the characteristics of the literature on VR based art therapy, identified knowledge gaps, and discussed implications for future research.