Sylvia Ji was born in 1982, and raised by artistic parents in San Francisco, California. Her interest in art was implanted at a very young age, when she would look through her mother’s sketchbooks and watch her father paint. Ji graduated with distinction in 2005 from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco with a Bachelors degree in traditional illustration, and had her first ambitious and successful solo show while still in her last year of school. After graduating, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2005, where she currently resides. Ji’s work has been featured in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions and art fairs worldwide. She has been profiled in many publications, too, including Juxtapoz, Trace, and Mesh Magazine, and her painting Dona Dolorosa graced the cover of the LA Weekly for a feature story about Juxtapoz magazine’s Laguna Museum retrospective, “In The Land of Retinal Delights”.