<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="COLOR: #584d4d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'"><font size="3">Nora Reza was born in New York and raised in North America and Europe. She studied painting with Frank Lobdell and Nathan Oliveira at Stanford University, (graduating in 1974), and later at the University of Minnesota where she earned MA and MFA degrees. She moved to Paris in 1993, and now divides her time between France and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is in numerous private collections in Europe and North America.<br /></font></span></span></p>