Nancy Chunn is an American artist was born on 1941 and based in New York, New York.
11 Facts About Nancy Chunn
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Nancy Chunn was born in Los Angeles, California and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1969, from the California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, California.
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Nancy Chunn began her career in Southern California before moving to New York in the late 1970s, where she currently lives and works.
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Nancy Chunn has exhibited internationally and has been represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York since 1985.
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Nancy 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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Nancy Chunn's work is mostly painting focused on narrative, cultural references and social problems, history, and symbolism both in the global community.
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Nancy Chunn often uses the news, and famously newspapers to draw inspiration and information, adding her own commentary to these sources.
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Nancy Chunn is largely recognized for the yearlong Front Pages project, where she applied images and text to provide commentary on every cover page of The New York Times from January 1 to December 31,1996.
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Nancy Chunn was named Honoree of the fall 2007 Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lectureship and Residency at Otis College of Art and Design.
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In 2005, Nancy Chunn received an Anonymous Was A Woman Award.
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Nancy Chunn has twice received a Fellowship Award in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts, namely in 1985 and 1995.