In 1955, she received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute where members of the faculty included Clyfford Still, David Park, Hassel Smith, and Jack Spicer, among others.

[5] After graduation, Remington spent two years traveling and living in Japan, Southeast Asia, and India.

While in Japan she studied classical and contemporary calligraphy and earned money by teaching English and tutoring actors.

[18][19] In 1999, Remington was elected to the National Academy of Design and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant that same year.

[18] In 2016 her work was included in the exhibition Women of Abstract Expressionism organized by the Denver Art Museum.

[20] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.