Jeanette Fintz is an abstract painter, arts writer and curator, she resides and paints in Surprise, New York in the upper Hudson River Valley. Fintz was born in Brooklyn, educated at Queens College, The New York Studio School and Boston University. She has exhibited her work internationally, starting in 1979 in New York.
She received her M.F.A. from Boston University S.F.A. (1975 ), and her B.A. from Queens College CUNY(1972). She attended the New York Studio School ( 1972-73) and received a scholarship to the Skowhegan School in 1975. In 2008 she received The Emil & Dines Carlsen Award for Painting given by the National Academy of Design