[4] Green left Australia in 1966 to live and study in Europe, where she married her first husband, Bruce Wolmer, and developed a taste for abstract art.
[5] Her brief architectural studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts Supérieure continued to serve as an influence on her earlier works even after she relocated to New York City.
[6] After living in Paris for three years, Green left Europe to attend graduate school at Hunter College in New York.
There, she met Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell who became her teachers and mentors, introducing her to the artistic movements of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and conceptual art.
[5] Her travels throughout the East to countries including India, Burma, Japan, and Indonesia were motivated by her visit to Kuringai Chase in the artist's native Australia, a sacred site to Australian Aboriginals.
[4] In 2007, Green was made a Member of the Order of Australia,[8] one of the highest recognitions of achievement and service for Australian citizens.
[11] Since the beginning of her career, Green has had more than 130 one-person shows and her work has been shown in nine museum retrospectives since 1999, including venues at MoMA PS1, New York and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.