Born in Taipei, Taiwan, I-Ching Lao moved to the United States with her family when she was five years old and grew up in York, Pennsylvania. She graduated cum laude from Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Fashion Design.

Specializing in watercolor portraits of pets and people as well as custom illustration, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband Christian, their amazing dog Adelaide the Tugga & their feline rascal Toki. Follow Adelaide the Tugga’s shenanigans here: https://www.instagram.com/tuggadugga/ 🐕

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Exhibits and Publications: 

• City of Los Angeles Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month Cultural Guide - contributing artist, 2024: https://culture.lacity.gov/programs-and-initiatives/la-hm/; contributing artist in 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014

• Taking Flight: The Peregrine Falcons of Mayo Clinic - contributing illustrator, published May 2021: https://mcpress.mayoclinic.org/shop/childrens-health-books/taking-flight-the-peregrine-falcons-of-mayo-clinic/

• Postcard Perspectives - contributing artist, ARTSPACE at Untitled, Oklahoma City, OK, November 2021 & November 2020: https://www.1ne3.org/postcard

• We Heart L.A. Parks: A Coloring + Activity Book - contributing artist, book release February 2021: https://narratedobjects.myshopify.com/products/weheartlaparks

• Wish You Were Here 19 Annual Postcard show - contributing artist, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 2019: https://www.airgallery.org/exhibitions/postcard-show-2019

• We Heart P-22: A Coloring + Activity Book - contributing artist, September 2017:
  http://narratedobjects.com/weheartp22.html

• Origami Springtime - an in-room Art Drawer installation at the newly renovated Barn Building of Farmer's Daughter Hotel, Los Angeles, March 2017

• Moo-seum - an in-room Art Box installation at Farmer's Daughter Hotel, September 2016

• The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A Cheap Art Show - participating artist, Farmer's Daughter Hotel, June 18, 2015

• SMASH Arts & Letters Sale to benefit Santa Monica Alternative School House - Streetcraft L.A., Feb 2014

• Women of Juárez art auction to benefit Amigos de las Mujeres de Juárez and Casa Amiga - UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Nov 2003

Costume Design and Art Dept/Production Assistance:

• Too Loud A Solitude, dir. Genevieve Anderson; short film

• The Final Member, dir. Zach Math & Jonah Bekhor; documentary

• The Bird Trilogy, dir. Sally E. Dean; 2005 Prague Fringe Festival

• Marley's Ghost, dir. Matthew Bretz; Circle X Theatre

• The Lysistrata Project, prod. Gleason Bauer; Circle X Theatre

• Simone, dir. Sally E. Dean; 2002 Mae West Fest, Seattle