Ravi Zupa is a high school dropout from a Colorado family of artists. He enjoyed no formal artistic tuition. In the past he has worked full-time as an animator in San Francisco and as a grade school art teacher. Zupa is a multi-disciplinary artist working in sculpture and with works on paper. He employs recycled materials such as "blueprints, envelopes and old letters salvaged from dumpsters" to work on using "graphite, coloured pencil, India ink, latex and acrylic paint, oil paint and pastel, chalk pastel, relief, block print cut from traffic cones, silk screen and collage - whatever is required."