Amanda Leung was born in 1981 in Hong Kong. She immigrated to the United States at age 11 and grew up in the Bay Area. Trained as an architect from University of California, Berkeley, she had worked in the industry for 15 years before she decided to pursue painting in 2018. She studied with Frank O’Cain and is currently Teaching Assistant to Bruce Dorfman at the Art Students League of New York. She works and lives in Brooklyn, New York.