Jeanette Fintz Biography

Jeanette Fintz is a Brooklyn born abstract painter, art educator and sometime curator and art writer who resides in Hudson NY. Ms Fintz migrated to the Hudson Valley region in the late 1980’s from the artist enclaves of Tribeca and Williamsburg.

She is the recipient of  an  a NYSCA/NYFA ARTIST FELLOWSHIP in PAINTING 2024, the Emil & Dines Carlsen Award for Painting from the National Academy of Design, 2008, a NYFA FELLOWSWHIP for WORKS on PAPER,1993, an    E D Foundation Grant for Painting,1990,  Ludwig Vogelstein and Artists Space Grants for Painting,1984, an Ingram Merrill Award for Painting,1980. Her residencies include the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, Ossabaw Island Project, and Altos De Chavon.

She received a scholarship to and purchase prize from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.1975. She received her MFA from Boston University SFA (1975), and her BA from Queens College CUNY. She also attended the NY Studio School.

Ms Fintz held the position of Assistant Professor at Parsons the New School for Design for 18 years and was the recipient of a Faculty Development Grant for projects in digital color, and two travel sabbaticals to Spain and Turkey to research the patterning systems which have informed her work. Ms Fintz also taught painting and drawing at SUNY Purchase for 12 years, among other academic positions and artist-in-residence sojourns.

She and her husband, artist D.Jack Solomon were founding faculty at a then Parsons affiliate school, Center For Advanced Design, in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, residing there and traveling in SE Asia in 1996-97.

Ms Fintz has had a solo show at 68 Prince Gallery Kingston NY, numerous group shows at The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY,  and is represented by the Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY  Her work is widely collected nationally and internationally.