Caia Koopman was born in Livermore CA and graduated from UCSC in 1992 were she earned her B.A.
in Fine Art. Santa Cruz is also were she learned to skate pools, ramps and Derby park. Skateboarding led to skateboard graphics, and her first limited edition team T-shirt design for a local skateboard company. After earning her degree, Caia moved to the mountains to snowboard and spent many winters following the snow. It was this love for snowboarding that inspired her to strive for a career creating snowboard graphics and later branching out to become a commercial artist. Caia's paintings have been used commercially for many years as graphics for snowboards, skateboards and wakeboards.