Jane Fine has lived and worked in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, since 1986. She studied painting at Harvard University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and Skowhegan and has received fellowships in paintings from The New York Foundation for the Arts in 2024, 2008, and 1994. Fine was also a recipient of grants from The National Endowment of the Arts and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has been a resident at Yaddo, MacDowell, The Fine Arts Work Center, The Golden Foundation, and others.
Her work was represented by Brooklyn’s iconic Pierogi gallery for a very long time. In addition, Fine has had one-person shows at Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston, Michael Rosenthal Gallery in San Francisco, and White Columns and Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York. Her work was recently included in The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum and recent paintings have been included in "Two is Greater than One" at 1 Gap Gallery in Brooklyn; "Seeking Complexity" at Bill Arning Exhbitions in Kinderhook, NY; and "Authority Problem" at Satchel Projects in Chelsea, all in 2025.
While at MacDowell in 2019, Fine worked on a group of 16 acrylic paintings. During her 2025 residency, she completed three large paintings and several small pieces that she hopes to exhibit soon.
