Lani Asher was born in Los Angeles’s rambling San Fernando Valley and attended the tiny College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. CCS was near the ocean and had no grades. They had art classes where James Turrell took the students flying in his private plane, John McCracken tried to teach his students to levitate, and Keisho Okayama took the suburban kids on field trips to downtown Los Angeles. After college, she lived in New York, teaching art to elders, working in an erotic bakery,  attending film school at NYU, and making videos at Rochester’s  Visual Studies Workshop. Graduating with an MFA from the now-defunct San Francisco Art Institute, she currently has an art studio in the Bay View district. She has taught art for many Bay Area nonprofits and written for the digital publications Art Practical, delicious line, and SF Arts Quarterly.