Audrey Kawasaki is a Japanese-American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles. Kawasaki grew up reading Japanese manga comics, which inspired her to draw from an early age. She started taking after-school fine art classes at Mission Renaissance in her late teenage years. There she learned the basic foundation of drawing and painting. After graduating high school Kawasaki attended Pratt Institute in New York but left after two years without completing the degree. Since 2005 her work has been on an upward trajectory, professionally showing at various art galleries in the US and internationally.

Kawasaki’s work contains contrasting themes of innocence and eroticism, conveying the mysterious intrigue of feminine sensuality. The artist’s creative influences include Eastern as well as Western traditions such as Art Nouveau and Japanese Manga comics. She paints sultry, seductive, and uninhibited female subjects with delicate beauty and provocative, direct eye contact. Their graceful gestures and ghost-like features carry mysterious expressions of melancholy and longing.