Chan was born in Georgetown, Guyana and currently lives in Halifax. For the past four years, she has been teaching at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she earned her Master of Fine Art degree. She has exhibited in galleries and museums across Canada and abroad including Montreal Arts Interculturel [MAI] (Montreal), SPIN Gallery (Toronto), and Atelier Frankfurt Gallery (Frankfurt, Germany). Her work is currently traveling nationally with Just My Imagination, a two-year group exhibition which includes the works of fourteen other contemporary drawing-based Canadian artists. Chan was short-listed for the Sobey Art Award in December 2006.