Brian Chih-Chaing Lo was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1980 and raised by his mother in an urban environment filled with mass media and information. He moved to Alaska at the age of 16 to live with his father's family. He received his BFA in Painting from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2004. Lo lived and worked in New York City for three years before moving to Hawaii to continue his education. He is now a second year graduate student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Lo has sought to use artistic creation as a way to document his developmental experience. Through Lo's experience moving from family to family, relocating across nations, and translating between languages and cultures, he has found himself drawn toward an exploration of the condition of human relationships.

The themes of his earlier work dealt mainly with the understanding of the structures, relationships, and dynamics among the members of the family. Furthermore, his work explored the dialectics of his personal sense of morality and the emotional events that he had been through during the transition between families and cultures.

Lo's recent work focuses on the contrast between individual and community, personal and public, and connection and disconnection. He has been inspired to explore humanity's attraction and obsession with connection through online communities, looking into our demand to be identified and witnessed through these communities, and the drive to establish personal profiles to be shared with the public. The act of sharing our intimate memories and documents fulfills our need to be witnessed by others, which perhaps fulfills our desire to pursue happiness.