Michael Leu was born in Taipei in 1950. Since 1983, he has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA, making art. He has also accepted invitations to create illustrations for books and to participate in interior design projects. His cat-themed paintings are particularly in demand by international collectors. In 2015, the documentary An Odyssey of Dreams (Donnie Chun-Yu Lai, director), which explored the artist’s decades-long creative journey, was released in Taiwan.