Born in Taiwan in 1964, Kuo received her Bachelors of architecture in California Institute of the Arts and later, Masters in the same discipline in Yale, USA. Although Kuo didn’t find much pleasure in her architecture career, she admits the training at school nourished the sense of space and logical thinking which help bringing ideas to artwork. In addition, Le Corbusier and Tadao Ando’s style influenced Kuo’s take on light and shadow as a student, and later results in her abstract form that is usually open-ended.