Judy Mensch was born in New York City. She received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and her MFA in printmaking and painting from the Tyler School of Art in Rome, Temple University, Rome, Italy. She studied multi-color intaglio and photo-etching at Studio Camnitzer in Valdottavo, Italy and at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, CA. She was awarded fellowships to Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, the Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, Art Print Residence, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, and Centrum voor Grafiek Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, Belgium and a grant from ArtQuest’s Nagasawa Art Park Pilot Project in Tsuna, Awajishima, Japan to study Japanese woodblock printing.

Her work was reviewed in the New York Times, as part of the Unfolding Visions exhibition at the Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY. She was reviewed in the newsletter of The Etching Society after giving a lecture to their members at the National Arts Club, New York, NY.

Judy Mensch has exhibited her work in the United States and abroad. Her work is in the collections of the New York Public Library, New York, NY; Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY; The Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., among others.