J e a n e t t e  F i n tz

Education

1975 MFA Painting Boston University, SFA
1975 Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture
1972-73 New York Studio School
1972 BA Queens College, CUNY

Grants & Honors

2024 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowhsip in Painting
2015 EYP Architecture & Engineering Award, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region
2015 Trustees Award, Albany Institute of History & Art
2013 Sabbatical, Parsons the New School for Design
2008 Emil & Dines Carlsen Award - Painting, National Academy of Design
2005 Sabbatical, The New School, Parsons School of Design
2003 Faculty Development Award, The New School, Parsons School of Design
1995-92 Sudden Opportunity Stipend, NYFA Rensselaer County Council for the Arts
1993 NYFA, Artists Fellowship - Drawing
1990 E.D. Foundation Grant - Painting
1984 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant - Painting
1980 Ingram Merrill Foundation Award - Painting
1975 Purchase Prize Skowhegan School - Painting

Residencies

2003, 1995 Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY
1996 Altos de Chavon, Dominican Republic
1979, 1977 Millay Colony for the Arts, Residency, Austerlitz, NY
1978 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1977 Ossabow Island Project, Savannah, GA

Selected One-Person Shows

2025 Elusive Thresholds, 68 Prince  Gallery, Kingston, NY
2021 New Work, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2019 Pulse, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2018 Small Works, Casana Designs, Hillsdale, NY
2017 Worldline Schreiber Paintings, Plus, Garvey/Simon Gallery, NYC
2016 The Presence of the Invisible Proposition, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA
2012 Andalusian Shards, Wall Street Journal Building Lobby, Durst Organization, NYC
2012 The Plaid Paintings, Rodale Press Building Lobby, Durst Organization, NYC
2004 & 2001 A D.D. Gallery, Hudson, NY
2002 Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2001 Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, VT
1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1997 Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1994 Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY
1992 Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY
1986 Hopkins Hall Fine Arts Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1985 55 Mercer Street Gallery, NYC
1984 & 1979 Houghton House Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
1979 Prince Street Gallery, NYC

Selected Group Shows

2025 Poetics of Material & Memory, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, NYC
2024 Chimera, Daphne Art,  Bantam, CT
2024-25 LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2023-24 Holiday Show, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
2023 Art Taipei, Carrie Chen Gallery, Taiwan, China
2022-23 The BIG Holiday Show, LabSpace, Hillsdale, NY
2022 Part of the Story, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2022 Passports, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY 
2021 Mohawk Hudson Regional Airport, Opalka Gallery, Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
2021 NY SS Alumni Exhibition 2021 Online & on Artsy
2021 Hermerica, Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY 
2020 The Big Holiday Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2019 Built, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
2019 In Pursuit of Color, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY
2018 The Greatest Show On Earth Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY
2018 Hygge, Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY
2018 En Masse 4, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2017 Summer Show, Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC
2017 Gamut,Cross Contemporary, Saugerties, NY
2017 A Declaration of Sentiments: Reflections on the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in NY State, Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY
2017 Thru The Rabbit Hole 2, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2016 En Masse 3, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2016 Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley 5, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY
2016 Thru the Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2015 Off The Grid, Concourse A, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2015 En Masse 2, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2015 Remains to be Seen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2015 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY
2015 Taking Root: Caniskek and the Meeting of Two Worlds Athens Cultural Center, Athens, NY
2015 Circle The Wagons, Sideshow, Williamsburg, NY
2014 En Masse, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2014 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, Albany Institute of History & Art
2014 We Love Art, Kenise Barnes Fine Arts, Larchmont, NY
2014 Sideshow Nation II, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2013 Shape Shifter, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2013 Sideshow Nation, Williamsburg, NY
2012 Cowgirls of the Hudson Valley #S1-4, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY
2012 Abstract & Concrete,Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY
2012 Jeanette Fintz & D. Jack Solomon, Fox Gallery, NYC
2012 MIC Check, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2011-2007 Winter Shows, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY
2010 Charged Brushes, The Painting Center, NYC
2010 View Four, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY
2010 40th Anniversary Exhibition, The Prince St Gallery, NYC
2009 Surface Tension, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2008 183rd National Academy of Design Invitational, NYC
2008 Locally Grown, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2007 This End Up, Windham Fine Arts, Windham, NY
2006 Informed Color, BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY
2006 Jeanette Fintz & D. Jack Solomon, Columbia Greene Community College, Hudson NY
2005 13th Anniversary Show, The Painting Center, NYC
2004 Nature Abstracted, Painting Center, NYC
2004 New Hudson New York, Van Brunt Gallery, NYC
2004 New Hudson Group Painting Exhibition, Carl Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY
2004 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Millay Colony for the Arts, Albany International Airport
2003 Mohawk-Hudson Regional University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany NY
2002 New York Studio School Alumni Show, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC
2001 Jeanette Fintz, Garth Evans, Walter Thompson A .D. D. Gallery, Hudson, NY
2000  & 1999 Paintings, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1996 Jeanette Fintz Works On Paper Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1996 Eight Painters, Gallerie Taksu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1995 Mohawk, Hudson Regional Exhibition Schenectady Museum & Planetarium
1994 Out of Line II, The Police Building, NYC
1993 Out of Line IV, Abstract Painters, PS122 Gallery, NYC
1992 Spirituality and Symbols of Eroticism, Five Points Gallery, East Chatham, NY
1991 2 Person Show - Art In General, NYC
1986 Structure & Metaphor: Six Contemporary Visions, WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1986, 85, 84 The 4th, 5th, and 6th Annuals John Davis Gallery, Akron, OH
1985 The Non-Objective World, Kamikaze, NYC
1985 Painting Invitational, Pam Adler Gallery, NY

Selected Teaching

2016 SUNY Albany, Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting & Drawing
1998 - 2015 Parsons,The New School for Design, NYC, Assistant Professor of Art & Design
1998 - 1999 Purchase College, SUNY, Visiting Assistant Professor
1996 - 1997 Center for Advanced Design, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Parsons School of Design affiliate Founding Foundation Faculty
1986 - 1996 Purchase College, SUNY, Assistant Professor of Painting & Drawing
1989 - 1990 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, Visiting Assistant Professor, Foundation Drawing: Color & Light
1983 - 1984 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA - Visiting Assistant Professor - Painting
1978 - 1980 Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY - Assistant Professor - Painting & Design
1977 - 1978 University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME - Instructor of Painting

Visiting Artist

2000 Instructor, Art New England Workshops, Bennington College, VT
1991 & 84 Honors Examiner, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
1986 Visiting Artist, Painting, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1985 Visiting Artist, Painting, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, IL

Selected Bibliography

• Butler, Sharon, Two Artists  in Conversation, Two Coats of Paint, Aug 2025
• Thomas, Taliesin, Ten Shows to See Upstate, Hyperallergic, July 2025
• Zinnes, Alice,  Jeanette Fintz at 68 Prince Gallery, Entrop Visions, blog, July 2025
• Westfall, Stephen, Paths, Levitations, Thresholds Catalog Essay, Jeanette Fintz Elusive Thresholds at 68 Prince Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2025
• Ebony, David Labyrinths, Catalog Essay, Jeanette Fintz Elusive Thresholds at 68 Prince Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2025
• Ratcliff,Carter, ArtSpiel Interview with Balance & Beam Paintings, Carrie Haddad Gallery, July 2021
• NYSS Alumni Studio Visit with Jeanette Fintz, Online, Aug 2021
• Woods, Lynn, “In Pursuit of Color”, Almanac Weekly, Dec 29, 2019, Review p.10-11
• Brickman, David, Get Visual Blog, Review Photo
• PULSE, Carrie Haddad Gallery Hudson, NY, Sept 2019
• Fintz, Jeanette ‘Symmetry of the Plane, improvisation and ellipsis in the Worldline Schreiber Paintings”, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2018.1552069, published March 2019
• Freeling, Isa, “Worldline Schreiber Paintings by Jeanette Fintz at Garvey Simon”, Art & Culture, The Huffington Post, Oct 12, 2017  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59de6d1ee4b075f45223a37c
• WSI “Worldline Schreiber Paintings, Sep 7 - Oct 7, 2017, Garvey Simon Gallery, NY USA”
• Wall Street International,  Art, Sep 14 2017 https://wsimag.com/art/30298-worldline-schreiber-paintings
• Ratcliff, Carter, “Vital Geometries”, catalog essay, “Worldline Schreiber Paintings… plus”, Garvey Simon, NYC, Sep 7 - Oct 7, 2017
• Smart, Paul, Art, The Woodstock Times ,“ Ritual of Construction at Kleinert”, May 18, 2017, p. 20
• Fintz, Jeanette “The Ritual of Construction”, catalog essay, Kleinert James Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, May - July 2017
• Barton, Peter, The Presence Of the Invisible Proposition, Catalog Essay p. 5 -11, April 2016
• 2015 Artist of the Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, Catalog p. 20
• Brickman, David, Get Visual blog, review photo
• 2014 Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational, catalogue p.17
• Westfall, Stephen - Jeanette Fintz, Perceptual Motion, Catalog essay, p. 2 - 3, April 2012
• Brickman, David, Get Visual blog, review photos “View Four”, Nicole Fiacco Gallery, Hudson, NY, Feb 2010
• The National Academy of Design 183rd Annual Invitational, catalogue p. 49
• Occhiogrosso, Peter, Art & About, Hudson River Museum & Gallery Guide, Fall 2006, Informed Color at BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, p. 20
• Brickman, David, The Round Table, WAMC radio Informed Color at BRIK Gallery, Catskill, NY, July 18, 2006
• Hudson River Art, Fall - Winter 2004, Vol. 3: Sightings “From The First”, acrylic/canvas by Jeanette Fintz, photo, p. 34
• Walentini, J www.abartonline.com/html/nyviews_3_p4.html, "Nature Abstracted”, review, photo, Dec 15, 2004
• Barton, Peter, The Artful Mind, Great Barrington, MA, August 2002, cover feature article p. 28 - 29 , ”True Colors”
• Jaeger, W., Arts & Entertainment, Art Review, Times Union, Albany, NY, May 16,1999, p.12, "Tradition and Beyond"
• Christudas, The Arts, The New Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sep 24,1999, A - 3 "Venturing Into A New Dimension"
• Halliday, Janet, The Arts, Day and Night, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 23 - 29,1999, p.14 & 51 "Colour And Feeling"
• Christudas, Sam, The Arts, The New Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 3,1999, p. A-3 "A Couple In Love with Their Art"
• Halliday, Janet, The Arts, Day and Night, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,  June 23 - 29,1999, p.14 & 51 "Colour And Feeling”
• Anu, Jay, Sunday Plus - The Arts, The Star, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec 15,1996, p.18, "An Experience of Many Hues”
• Wright, Churchill, Peg, Brushmarks, Arts & Entertainment, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, Nov 17 1994, p. A- 9, "A Bold Show In Plaid"
• Kreiner, Rich, Art - Metroland, Albany, NY, Dec. 1 - 7, 1994, "Color Loaded", Jeanette Fintz and Fumiko
• Jaeger, W., Art Review, SHOWTIME, The Times Union, Albany, Dec. 18,1994, p. H-2 "Fintz's paintings not only pretty"
• Cohen, Ronny, Leslie Urbach Gallery, Albany, NY, Nov - Dec 1994, "Jeanette Fintz - Paintings ", catalogue
• Myers, Terry, The Police Building, NYC, April, 1994, "Out of Line - II", catalogue
• Jaeger, William, Art Review, ENTERTAINMENT, The Times Union, Albany, March 12, 1994 - p. D - 5 “Artists" Nature presents moving, beautiful show in Catskill gallery"
• Princenthal, Nancy, PS 122 Gallery, NYC, March 1993, essay for the show "Out of Line - 4 Abstract Painters"
• Lail, Thomas, Art Review, PREVIEW, The Times Union, Albany, Aug 27, 1992,  p.27 "Cross and Fintz Display Artists' Process"
• Moynihan, Martin, Show Section, The Times Union, Albany,  Jan 26, 1992, p. H1, "Art Reveals Eroticism's Spirituality"
• Twardy, Chuck, Art Section, The Orlando Sentinel,  Oct. 29, 1989, p. F5, "Two Campuses Linked by Quality"
• Martin, Mary Abbe, Reviews, Minneapolis Star & Tribune, Feb 2, 1986. p. 36
• Cohen, Ronny, Warm Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, 1986, "Structure and Metaphor, Six Contemporary Visions", catalogue
• Westfall, Stephen, Reviews, Arts Magazine, Sept 1985, p. 40
• Westfall, Stephen, Reviews, Arts Magazine, Summer 1985, p. 36

Selected Collections

Mintz Levin, New York, NY
Joe & Jennifer Remling, Washington, DC & NYC
Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff, & Cohen, 500 Fifth Ave, NY
Larry Bartlett, NYC
Karen Bander, NYC
Ellyn Eisenach, Germantown, NY
Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, NYC
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Boston, MA & Plano, TX
Hunter Andrews Kurth, Boston, MA
Par Capital Management, Boston, MA
Robert A.M. Stern Architectural Project, Washington, DC
Capital G Bank, Hamilton, Bermuda
Boca Raton Yacht Club, Waldorf Astoria Resort, Boca Raton, FL
VYV Apartments, luxury high rise, Jersey City, NJ
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Foxboro, MA
Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering , Hale & Dor, Boston, MA
Posternak,Blankstein & Lund Boston, MA
Rabobank, 465 Park Avenue, NYC
Commerzbank 2 World Financial Center, NYC
National Television 7, Kuala Lumpur, MY
Former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia
Christmas Island Phosphate, Singapore
Datuk Effendi & Datin Farida Norwawi, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Jim & Debbie Ellickson-Brown, Former Cultural Attache, American Embassy, Kuala Lumpur 1996-1998
Hobart & Wm. Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Skowhegan School Skowhegan, Maine & NYC
Jewish Free Loan Association, Los Angeles, CA
Marina Mahathir, Kuala Lumpur, MY
Rohana Tan Sri Mahamad, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Suherwan Abu, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia& Singapore
Valentine Willie, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ona Nierenberg & Salvatore Guido, NYC
Joachim Frank & Carol Saginaw, NYC & Alford MA
Rick & Nurit Amdur, Litchfield, CT & NYC
Jin Feng & Sat Joshi, NYC
Nancy Haynes & Mike Metz NYC
Van & Tana Teeters Houston, TX
Richard Companik, Canaan, CT
Michael Lockwood, Kingston, NY
Jess & Mara Carrier, NYC
Reeve Ward, Lake Forest, IL
Carrie Chen & Stanley Cohen Center Hill, Copake, NY
Albert & Linda Eskenazi, Montreal, CA
Barbel & Peter Starz, Toulouse, FR
Clarissa & Jean Kueller, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mr. & Mrs. Andre Keller, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia & Geneva, Switzerland
Antonio Espinosa, Quito, Ecuador
Ray Cubero & Kathy Cumerford, Watermill, NY
Shirley Greitzer, Washington, DC
Mark Meltzer, Los Angeles & Palm Springs, CA
Joel & Fran Soroka, Aspen, Colorado
Edward Epstein, Toronto, Canada
Estate of Hella Ossenberg, NYC
Estate of Joan Franzen, NYC
Estate of Gabriel & Carol Laderman, NYC
Stephen Westfall, Clermont, NY & NYC
Prof. Allen Russell, Geneva, NY
Dr. Chris Calder & Betsey Swan, Albuquerque, NM
Elliott B Kristal, Martin Kristal, Los Angeles & Palm Springs, CA
Jeanne Strausman, Rensselaerville, NY
Mark Pettygrove, Los Angeles, CA
George A Schulman, Los Angeles, CA
Gerald De Silva, Los Angeles, CA
Charles & Barbara Vengrove, Wells, VT
Caryl Horn Port Richmond, CA
Joe & Cathy Plumber, Cold Spring, NY
Molly Doland, Esq. Albuquerque, NM
Bethany Beardslee Winham, Red Hook NY
David Fox & Associates, Inc., NYC
Eric & Carolyn Egas, Greenville, NY & Vieques PR
Paolo & Kaskia Arencibia, Tarrytown. NY