Ms. Eder first began her art studies in design, photography, and calligraphy at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles. She then attended San Diego City College and graduated from the Technical Illustration program. For the next 13 years Ms. Eder worked as a Technical and Graphics Illustrator for companies that included Disney Imagineering. In 2007 Kikki began painting under the mentorship of artist Margaret Garcia. Since then, she has exhibited at Casita del Pueblo in Whittier (two-person show with Margaret Garcia), Heritage Square, the Casa de Adobe, Brooklyn/Boyle Gallery, and KGB Gallery in Los Angeles, and the Fremont Gallery in South Pasadena, where Ms. Eder had her first solo show in April 2010.