Jamie Brunson studied painting at the California College of the Arts (BFA, 1978) and at Mills College (MFA, 1983). Her work is represented by Turner Carroll Gallery (New Mexico), Anne Loucks Gallery (Illinois), and Robischon Gallery (Colorado). Her paintings are in the Neiman Marcus Collection; the United States Embassy in Doha, Qatar; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; and New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces. In California, her work is the collections of the San Jose Museum of Art; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the di Rosa Art Preserve, Napa; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; and the Triton Museum, Santa Clara. Before relocating to New Mexico in 2014, Brunson lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaching in the painting and graduate programs at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, the California College of the Arts, and the University of California, Berkeley.