Julianne French received her Master of Fine Arts in painting from The New York Academy of Art, the Graduate School of Figurative Art in New York City and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and art history from Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Florida.

French has received awards and grants including the Memphis Wood Excellence in Teaching Award given by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Jacksonville, FL, a Gilder Lehrman grant to study American history at Yale University, CT, and has been the recipient of two Art Ventures Individual Artist Grants from the Community Foundation in Northeast Florida.

Her work has been exhibited in numerous shows including the Portico Library in Manchester, UK, the Jacksonville International Airport, the Art House in Chicago, the UNO Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska, and the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens among others.

French has six art works in the public collection of the University Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, and work in the Siena Art Institute collection in Italy.

Currently her work focuses on syncretism and how architecture establishes cultural identities.