Lai Chiu-Chen was born in 1970 in Taiwan, and currently works and lives in Taiwan. He received his MFA in Taipei National University of Arts in 2002. Lai's work carries a sense of pop culture, but amidst the animation and comic appearance, its essence sits on the everlasting themes of painting, simulation and reproduction. Lai's approach to art turns his work, in a sense, into a kind of sampling or specimen of life. As a result of his highly 'controlled' working system which prunes trivial composition, perspective and brush marks, the image itself, as well as layers and layers of color upon it and the painterly touch that hides under the evenly applied surfaces and in the painted frames, are genuinely revealed to us. Lai's work has been collected by major museums including Long Museum, Shanghai; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei; and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, among others.