She graduated with a Masters in studio painting from Ukraine National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture with emphasize in oil. She’s a member of the Ukrainian Artists Association and the American Association of Portrait Painting. For this exhibition, she experiments in using oil with acrylic paints. Besides painting, she divides her time as an art teacher in Zhenjiang Sci-Tech University. Joy Cai is a full-time artist born and raised in China. She studied fine art in Hubei Fine Art Academy and film Art Design at Beijing Film. In 2002 Joy immigrated to the U.S. and currently living in San Jose, CA. She started painting at a very young age. Painting brings her joys and she captures the beautiful light of just ordinary objects that surrounds her. She hopes that her paintings will bring people the same joy that she have had in creating them.