Francine Gintoff has an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a BFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She is the recipient of a Surdna Individual Artist Grant, an Artist Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and an Artist Resource Trust Grant, Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Gintoff has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Real Art Ways, Paul Mellon Arts Center, Pearl Street Gallery, Marion Locks Gallery, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and other venues throughout the northeast. She is in the Registry at the Drawing Center in New York and is an instructor at the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts.