Mylinh Chau was born in the year of the buffalo in West Palm Beach, Florida and earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting with a Minor in Culture and Politics at The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Her project-to-project studio practice encompasses drawing, painting, animation, sculptural, installation, video, and book works. In pursuit of her artistic vision, Chau has followed lobster diving expeditions in the depths of the South China Sea, lived on an organic farm in rural Japan with an I Ching master, explored emerald terraced rice paddies with Black Hmong villagers, and collaborated with The Vietnam National Puppetry Theatre. She studied at The Center for Art & Culture in Aix-en-Provence, France in 2005. In 2007, she received the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Fellowship, providing Chau the opportunity to travel for research to Vietnam and Japan for her ongoing project entitled “The Next Asian Tiger”.