Francine Tint

Francine Tint is a New York–based painter whose career spans over five decades. Her practice holds a singular place within the trajectory of postwar American abstraction, bridging the gestural intensity of Abstract Expressionism with the chromatic expanses of Color Field painting. Her compositions are marked by a sustained engagement with color, mobilizing a formal vocabulary that privileges openness, immediacy, and spatial ambiguity over structural resolution. A recent development in her work, the Open Color series, introduces exposed canvas and negative space as integral compositional elements—intensifying both luminosity and spatial depth. Yet this evolution is consistent with a broader, decades-long pursuit of immersion and perceptual immediacy.

Educated at Pratt Institute and the New York Studio School, Tint began her professional life in the world of fashion and media, working as a stylist and costume designer for clients such as David Bowie, Ridley Scott, Richard Avedon, MTV, and Saturday Night Live. This early immersion in image-making and performance sensitized her to questions of surface, materiality, and visual impact—concerns that later informed the development of her painterly language.

Tint began exhibiting in the 1970s, working against the grain of a male-dominated New York art world. Her early studio visits with Clement Greenberg provided critical context for her evolving approach to abstraction, and her work has since been discussed by critics such as David Ebony and Robert C. Morgan, who have emphasized the originality and persistence of her vision.

She has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation grant, and an Honorable Mention from the Butler Institute of American Art. Her paintings are held in the permanent collections of major institutions, including the Bass Museum of Art, the Aïshti Foundation, the Neuberger Museum of Art, the Heckscher Museum, and the Portland Art Museum.

Recent milestones in Tint’s career include the publication of her monograph, Francine Tint: Paintings, now held in the libraries of the Whitney Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, LACMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the New York Public Library. In parallel, she is the subject of a new documentary film, Panoramic View: Portrait of the Artist Francine Tint, directed by Pola Rapaport and filmed by Wolfgang Held, cinematographer of The Andy Warhol Diaries. The film is set to premiere at international festivals in fall 2025, including the New York Documentary Film Festival and the Newport Beach Film Festival.

Selected Exhibitions

2026 Avant Garde: Remarkable Women in the Permanent Collection, Tampa Museum, Tampa, Florida
Women: In the Abstract, 68 Prince St., Kingston, New York
Other Expressions, Bienvenu Steinberg & C., New York, New York

2025 FLESH FLOWERS, Aïshti Museum, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
Summer Exhibition, Shin Gallery, New York, New York
Symbolic of the Whole, 68 Prince St., Kingston, New York
Radical Acts of Beholding, Upsilon Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2024 Francine Tint. In Dialogue with Helen Frankenthaler, Upsilon Gallery, New York, New York
100 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, New York
Unveiled, Upsilon Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2023 Salon 81, 81 Leonard Gallery, New York, New York
Kikuo Saito and Friends: New York City Downtown and Beyond 1970s and 1980s, Kinosaito Arts Center, Verplanck, New York
The 2023 National Arts Club Exhibiting Artist Members Exhibition, The National Arts Club, New York, New York
Listening to the Sublime, M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston, Massachusetts
The Sky is a Mirror, Upsilon Gallery, New York, New York
Chroma: Choreography of Space and Color, Upsilon Gallery, New York, New York

2022 Francine Tint. Life in Action, The National Arts Club, New York, New York
11 Women of Spirit, Zurcher Gallery, New York, New York

2021 Broken Silence, Frostburg State University Museum, Frostburg, Maryland

2020 Artists From the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
After a Dream, Chase Young Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2019 Francine Tint, Alabama Contemporary Art Center Museum, Mobile, Alabama

2018 Color Field Painters Championed by Clement Greenberg, Frederick Holmes & Co, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington State
Explorations, Cavalier Galleries, New York, New York
Color Into Form: Abstractions From the Permanent Collection, The Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

2017 Mostra Internazionale Di Pittura, Mediateca Provinciale, Palazzo dell’ Annunziata, Matera, Italy
55th Season Featured Artists, Harmon Meek Modern, Naples, Florida

2015 Abstraction Amplified, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Elaine De Kooning, Georgia O’Keefe, Betty Parsons, Francine Tint, Texas Contemporary, Gallery Sam, Houston, Texas
Rooted in Abstract Expressionism, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, New York
You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York
Art MRKT San Francisco, Gallery Sam, San Francisco, California

2012 Absorbed by Color, The Hecksher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York

2010 Divine Influence, Past and Present, Contemporary Abstract Art and African
Sculpture from the Merton D. Simpson Collection, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, New York, New York
Award Winning 14 Sculptors from Around the Country, Excalibur Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
The Heckscher at 90: Then and Now, The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York

2009 Edge of Abstraction, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas 2007 Francine Tint, Tria Gallery, New York, New York
Chi Art Center, Westport, Connecticut

2006 Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Connecticut

2005 Joyce Towbin Chasan Fine Art, New York, New York

2004 Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor, New York

2003 Gale-Martin Fine Art, New York, New York

1999 The National Arts Club, New York, New York

1998 Present Modernism, Tribes Gallery, New York, New York

1997 Solo, Museo de la Cuidad, Madrid, Spain

1996 Movements in Modern Art-Selections from the Permanent Collection, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania

1995 American Masters of Watercolor - A 100-Year Survey. Milton Avery, Helen Frankenthaler, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, John Marin, John Singer Sargent, Francine Tint., Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The Edmonton Contemporary Artists’ Society, Edmonton, Gallery Sam, Berkeley, California
Winter Salon 2012, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, New York

1994 American Abstraction: A New Decade. Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert
Goodnough, Joan Mitchell, Elizabeth Murray, Francine Tint., Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
The Rockefeller Institute, New York, New York

1993 Important Work by Modern Masters, C.S. Schulte Galleries, Millburn, New Jersey
Malcolm Morley, Kenneth Noland, Arnulf Reiner, Francine Tint., Ulysses Gallery, New York, New York

1991 Large Scale Painting, Romscale Gallery, New York, New York
Milton Avery, Jules Olitski, Lawrence Poons, Francine Tint., Ulysses Gallery, New York, New York
Pictures for a Sunday Afternoon, William E. Lehman Lecture Series of Art and Architecture, Morristown, New Jersey

1990 Remember the Earth, Ramscale Gallery, New York, New York

1987 The United Nations Group Exhibition to benefit UNICEF, New York, New York

1986 Color field paintings with sweeping lines, abstract figuration, Gallery Hirondelle, New York
Rauschenberg-Tint, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Selection from the E.E Hutton Collection, Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida
New Abstraction, Shippee Gallery, New York, New York

1985 Recent Abstract Paintings, Gallery Hirondelle, New York, New York 1984 Haber Theodore Gallery, New York, New York
1983 Adam L. Gimbel Gallery, New York, New York
Martha White Gallery, Louisville, New York

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Public Collections

Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland

Aïshti Museum, Beirut, Lebanon

Alabama Contemporary Art Center Museum, Mobile, Alabama

Amarillo Museum of Fine Art, Amarillo, Texas

Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida

Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, New York

Brenau University, Gainesville, Georgia

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, California

Carroll Reece Museum East Tennessee State University, Johnson

City, Tennessee Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin

Columbia University, New York, New York

David Owsley Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana

El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York

Hessel Museum, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York

John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida

Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York

The NAU Art Museums, Flagstaff, Arizona

Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida

Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida

Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansa

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

University Art Gallery, Villanova, Pennsylvania

Work of Art Holdings, New York, New York

Education

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

The Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, New York
The New York Studio School, New York, New York
The Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, New York

Workshops

2025 Gestural Abstraction: Expression Through Color, Art Students League, New York, New York

2023 Gestural Abstraction: Expression Through Color, Art Students League, New York, New York

2022 Gestural Abstraction: Expression Through Color, Art Students League, New York, New York

2019 Gestural Abstraction: Expression Through Color, Art Students League, New York, New York

2018 Color Painting: Expression Through Color, Art Students League, New York, New York

Awards

2023 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

2018 Honorable Mention, 82nd Midyear Show – The Butler Institute of American Art

2017 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

2015 Artists Fellowship Inc. Founded 1859.

2012 Artists Fellowship Inc. Founded 1859.

Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.

2004 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

2003 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.

1999 Lifetime membership at The National Arts Club, New York.