Julia Nee Chu is an internationally acclaimed abstract painter born in Shanghai, China and currently living in Los Angeles. Chu received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1978 and her MFA also from UCLA in 1981. She was awarded Graduate Teaching Fellowships from UCLA in 1980-81, the
Ford Foundation Travel Grant in 1980 and the
General Telephone Company Poster Award in 1976. Her work is held in public and private collections around the world. Chu states: "The focus of my painting has always had to do with nature or rather the processes or movements of nature. One cannot copy nature, but through the process of painting one can experience the transformation of nature."