Jai Chuhan was born in Punjab, India in 1955. She immigrated to London, England in 1973 to attend the Slade School of Fine Art, graduating in 1977. Moving from abstraction towards more figurative self and family portraiture, her paintings focus on the exploration of her dual Indian-British identity, the female experience and the female gaze. Chuhan has exhbiited widely, often in the context of South Asian artists in Britain.

Listen to her story here or read the full biography on the BURU database: https://www.buru.org.uk/contributor/jai-chuhan--