Lauren Tsai was born in 1998, Massachusetts, USA. Lauren Tsai is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles whose work spans drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and animation. Drawing from a cast of recurring characters, constructed environments, and interconnected narratives, she develops projects that connect to a larger visual language. Central to Tsai’s practice is the creation of imagined worlds where emotional experiences are translated into physical and visual forms. Characters, creatures, and symbolic objects reappear throughout her work, carrying fragments of memory across shifting settings that exist between reality and invention. Through these evolving narratives, Tsai examines themes of transformation, attachment, and the ways personal histories are preserved, altered, and reimagined over time.
UNREAL Inc. is the creative studio and publishing platform founded by Lauren Tsai. Rooted in a belief that imagination is not an escape from reality but another way of understanding it, the studio brings together projects that move freely between art, animation, publishing, design, and storytelling. It exists to support work that unfolds over time. Ideas that return in new forms, gather new meanings, and remain in conversation with one another long after their initial creation. At its core is an interest in the porous boundary between the lived and the imagined, where memory, observation, and invention become inseparable. UNREAL Inc. serves not only as a platform for making and sharing work but as the permanent home for sustaining creative inquiry, allowing projects to evolve and be sustained over time.