Catherine Tafur was born in Lima, Peru in 1976 to a Peruvian father and a Japanese mother. After spending the first part of her childhood in Peru and the latter part in Wilmington, Delaware, she moved to New York City to study at the Cooper Union School of Art where she earned her BFA. She live
faint lit eyes slowly swallowing vibes from the waist line, only dreams came deliver these things to my bedside, any shrugs says shes pullin the plugs to the outside