Originally from Los Angeles, Elaine Marinoff relocated to New York in 1988. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA, studied liberal arts at the University of California at Berkeley, and post graduate painting at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

She has shown most recently with Allen Sheppard Gallery in Chelsea, Andre Zarre, Sampson Fine Arts, Kouros and Hal Katzen Galleries in New York City. She began showing in California at The Laguna Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She also showed early on at the Locar Discovery Gallery with the Los Angeles Museum of Science and Industry, and at the Cabrillo Marine Museum in San Pedro, CA. She has shown throughout the country and abroad in numerous one person and group exhibitions; recently Marinoff showed at Guild Hall in East Hampton, the Provincetown Museum in MA; the University of Judaism in Los Angeles where she has shown in the past with Richard Bennett, Karl Borenstein and Heritage Galleries. Marinoff's first one person show was at the John Bolen Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. She has also shown with New York University, New York; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey; Claudia Chapline Gallery in Northern California; Eva Cohon Gallery in Chicago; and at the Galeries' Woeller Paquet and das Bilderhaus in Frankfurt, Germany among others.

Marinoff taught the "Serigraphic Process" at UCLA from 1985 to 1988. Her work can be found in numerous public and private collections throughout the world.

She now resides in New York City.