Caia Koopman
Caia Koopman was born in 1968 and raised in Livermore, California, just
outside San Francisco. She majored in fine art and earned a B.A. at UCSC in
Santa Cruz, California. While in Santa Cruz she was seduced by the local
skateboarding scene and rounded out her formal education by skating ramps,
street, pools and Derby Park. She instinctively started creating skateboard
graphics and soon became equally entranced with snowboarding. Her interest
in board-sports and the art the flourishes in and around these scenes
inspired her to strive for a career creating snowboard graphics. She has
become not only a successful commercial artist but also a fine artist. Caia
explains her addiction to art, "I've always been an artist-as a kid I would
draw to escape, to travel, to explore...and I still do"
Her artwork has been featured in numerous national and international print
media including Surfing Girl, Mademoiselle, Details, Girls' Life,
Snowboarder Magazine, Teen, Teen Style, Teen people, J-14, Fine and others.
Caia has also been featured on MTV, "mtv sports" as an athlete/artist for
her snowboarding and painting. She has shown her paintings in a number of
galleries around the world and most recently at La Luz de Jesus in L.A. She
is currently working as a freelance illustrator and painter in Oceanside,
California. There's a political and environmental undercurrent in much of
her work, she is an environmentalist at heart so she often paints an
interaction between humans, flora and fauna. Caia is inspired by color,
dreams, politics, and life.
For more information: http://www.caiakoopman.com
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