Norman Lundin did his undergraduate studies at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and did his graduate work at University of Cincinnati (MFA). He was Assistant to the Director of the Cincinnati Art Museum before going to the University of Oslo to study the work of Edvard Munch and late 19th c. Scandinavian painting. While in Norway he accepted a position to teach Painting and Drawing at University of Washington. He taught at the U of W for forty years and is now Professor of Art, Emeritus.

He is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, Tiffany Foundation Grant, Washington State Visual Artists Fellowship, Ford Foundation Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts award. He has been a Visiting Professor/Artist at many universities and art schools.

His work is included in the collections of: the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Art Institute of Chicago, Seattle Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, and the Brooklyn Art Museum, among others. He has had over seventy solo exhibitions and has had one-person shows in most of the major cities in the US.

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