Nancy Chunn was born in Los Angeles, California and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1969 from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. She began her career in Southern California before moving to New York in the late 1970s, where she currently lives and works.[2]

Chunn has exhibited internationally and has been represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York since 1985.

Chunn currently teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and taught a master painting class at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles in 2007.

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