BSLA, College of Environmental Design, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Vietnamese born landscape designer and artist Andy Cao is design partner of cao | perrot studio in Los Angeles and Paris.  He is a recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship in Landscape Architecture in 2002 and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (FAAR).  Cao is registered as Site Artist in the 4Culture Artist Registry Volume VI (Seattle, WA).

The work of cao | perrot studio is about total environments.  Drawing on diverse cultural backgrounds, Cao and French landscape designer Xavier Perrot create “non-site” installations, a blending of art and landscape to create a place for dreaming.  Cao-Perrot often use over-looked materials to create environments that defy specific meaning and invite the viewer into a contemplative world of color and sensuality.  Revealing the inherent “imperfection” of every-day materials gives their work a spontaneous, hand-made feel.  The projects, both temporary and permanent, cross commercial, artistic and residential boundaries, varying in size from intimate courtyards, to large-scale public art, and most recently, the winning design for the six hundred acre Guangming Central Park in Shenzhen, China.

cao | perrot studio‘s work has exhibited at many international garden festivals and museums, including the Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006 at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York.  Their work has been widely published in books and magazines.
www.caoperrotstudio.com