Francine Mury was born in Montreux, Switzerland. She started her studies of visual arts in England at the Shrewsbury School of Art and continued them at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel and Bern.

At the beginning of the 1980s she moved to Paris.


She received various grants, among them the "Federal Award in Applied Arts", the "Aeschlimann Award" from Bern, the "Esther Matossi Award" from Zürich, and the Canton Neuchâtel and the Canton Bern Award, Swiss Etching Award.


From the onset of her career, she has made the research of color, canvas form, paper, and Artists' Books the main focus of her work, with the intention of transcribing states of mind. Presence and absence, opacity and transparency, geometry and chance, elements which are only in appearance contrasting, distinguish her work. The references to the natural world are implicit in certain forms and explicit in the chromatic span that characterizes her work, but the abstraction of what is given concretely obscures and overrides the initial references.

She now lives and works in Southern of Switzerland.


Her work can be seen in public and private collections both in Switzerland and abroad. In 2016 Francine was granted a six months stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris.