Born in the city of Santo Domingo, holds a Bachelor degree in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, UASD. Elsa Núñez accomplished her painting studies at the National School of Plastic Arts, graduating as Painting and Drawing Professor in the year 1962. In 1970s parts for Madrid where she takes a
postgraduate course in the Real Academia de San Fernando de Madrid and a free course in the Fine Arts Circle of Madrid.

She has imparted teaching in the National School of Fine Arts, ENBA, in the Dominican Association of Plastic Arts, the Salle School , in the Experimental School Fidel Ferrer and the Candido Bido Painting Academy. With her husband, the actor and painter Angel Haché, has directed the Children Creativity Workshops of the Central Bank Club, Theatre House, the Modern Art Gallery and the Museum of the Royal Houses. In 1978 was invited along with her husband by the UNESCO to visit Spain and France in a trip for cultural communicators. She Directed the Paul Guidicelli Hall of Theatre House. Currently, she is the Chairwoman of the Dominican Association of Plastic Artists, where she previously had been Financial Secretary and is a member of the Patronage of the Modern Art Museum. Elsa Núñez has presented thirty three Individual Expositions and has participated in countless Collective Shows in the country. Her works have been exposed in the Fine Arts Palace, the Gallery Olimpia, the Gallery Andrés, the Catholic University Mother and Master in Santiago de los Caballeros, in the Art Gallery Rosa María, the Gallery Auffant, Theatre House, Candido Bido Art Hall, Modern Art Gallery, “La Galeria”, Gallery Deniel’s and in Madrid, in the Greater Association Guadalupe, the Hispanic Culture Institute and the Gallery Forum. She has exposed, furthermore, in biennials and important galleries, as are the Gallery in Saint Thomas, Annual Art Contest E. Leon Jiménes, International Show Caribbean Union, New York, collective “Our Peruvian-Dominican Painting “ (Madrid), Biennial of Plastic Arts in Santo Domingo, Current Iberian’- American Art, Cultural Center of the Villa de Madrid, Latin America House, Paris, Canning House, London, Dominican Art Michigan Festival of Art Carifesta (Cuba), International Festival of Cagnes Sur - Mer (France), Gallery For - Venezuela (Caracas), Contest Christopher Columbus (Spain), Art Center City of Miami, Expo, Iberian Club of Bonn (Germany), in the Grand Palais (Paris), Gallery Panama, First Biennial of Havana, Biennial of Sao Paulo (Brazil), Gallery Cristissa (Miami), New Art from Dominican Republic (New York), Collective of American Express in Miami, Second Biennial from Quito, (Ecuador), Plastic Arts Biennial of Dominican Republic.

As artist invited in 1994 illustrated for Periolibros “Stories to be Told After the Bath” of Camilo José Cela. Her works are found in museums and international institutions, as in the Museum of Ponce (Puerto Rico), Hispanic Culture institute (Madrid), Museum of the Royal Houses, House of France and Museum of Modern Art (Santo
Domingo), Office American Express (Miami). Prizes and distinctions define all an artistic life.

First Painting rize, Fine Arts Palace, 1962, Celebration Bicentenario of the city of Baní, 1962, International Collective Latin America Paint Madrid, Collective Three Dominican Artists (Costa Rica), Third Contest Prize Annual of Art Contest E. León Jiménes, Prize The Mask, Independent Culture Prize, granted by the Embassy and the House of Spain, 1979, Great Anacaona of Gold, in recognition to her labor in the field of the national plastic, recognition of the society ProCultura, recognition by the Guides Association, Independence Prize Miami, Florida, recognition granted by the Gallery Arawak, Prize Casandra, 1992 for the Dominican Chroniclers Association of Art, Gold Microphone of the Dominican Announcers Association, 1995, Medal to the Merit by the General Direction Promotion of the Woman, 1996. The works of Elsa Núñez appear in numerous specialized art publications. They are cited “A Dominican Art Summary” of Rodríguez Demorizi, “History of the Dominican Painting”, by Jeannette Miller, “Dominican Art”, by Dario Suro, Dominican Encyclopedia, “The Painting in the Dominican Society” by Danilo de los Santos, “Contemporary Dominican Art” by Gary Nicolás Nader, “Presence of Eleven Dominican Painters” of Candido Gerón, “Anthology of the Dominican Painting”, “Of the interior worlds to the landscapes without limits” by the art critic Marianne de Tolentino, “ Dominican Personalities” of Rafael Molina Morillo and “Masters of Dominican Painting” by Candido Gerón and “Great Dominicans” of Carlos T. Martínez.