Nancy Chunn
Nancy Chunn
Biography
Born in Los Angeles in 1941, Nancy Chunn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 1969. She began her career in Los Angeles before moving to New York City in the late seventies. Consistently concerned with political, sociological and cultural issues, Chunn’s work exposes geopolitical themes and the power of the media to define and control public opinion. A self-proclaimed “political junkie,” she achieved critical success with her early map-like paintings of tyrannized nations, and in her paintings over the past 25 years, she has continued her commitment to documenting world events. She has been widely recognized for the year-long Front Pages project in which she provided commentary by applying images and text on every front page of The New York Times from January 1 to December 31, 1996. Since this series, Chunn’s work has been filled with humorous references, satire and biting critique. Her latest series, Chicken Little and The Culture of Fear, restaged the folktale of the paranoid fowl to expose the media’s nonstop use of fear, real and imagined, to fuel the engine of the 24 hour news cycle. Chunn lives with her partner Mark Rosen and two Russian Blue cats in Manhattan.
Select Press
ARTNEWS Group Show Nancy Chunn Wins Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s 2018 Artist Award
ArtForum Group Show NANCY CHUNN WINS ARTISTS’ LEGACY FOUNDATION’S $25,000 ARTIST AWARD
Artsy Group Show Post-9/11 Culture of Fear with Chunn’s Darkly Comical New Show
Exhibitions
Sep 03 – Nov 27, 2024 Group Show Focus Group
Oct 2023 – Feb 2024 Group Show Airspace
May 08 – Jun 19, 2020 Group Show Prescient: A Five-by-Five Virtual Exhibition
Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show Summer 2019
Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. The gallery is located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City and exhibits performance, photography, new media, film, painting, drawing and sculpture.
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