Niku attended Ruth Asawa School of the Arts between 2014 and 2018, taking courses in studio art, figure drawing, sculpture, and photography. She continued her studies through summer workshops at SF Art Institute and through independent work, writing and publishing her first comic in February of 2024. She works in gouache, colored pencil, pencil, and ink, with prior work done in oils. Click any image in the gallery to be taken to its project page.