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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 SLIP, The Lobby Gallery at 860 Washington Street, New York, NY
2019 Catch and Release, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2016 A Delicate Balance, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Behind the Sun: New Paintings, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Vortical, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Nature Games, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Antiphony, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 On Becoming, The Phatory, New York, NY
2004 Supersplat, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Liquid Landscapes: Works from the Perfume River Series, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 A Legacy of Making: 26 Contemporary Italian American Artists, Connecticut College, New London, CT; curated by Joanne Mattera
2023 A Legacy of Making: 21 Contemporary Italian American Artists, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, New York, NY
2023 Radiate, Garvey|Simon, New York, NY
2022 XX: Twenty Year Anniversary Exhibition, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Magic, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Seeing It Through, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2019 Circles and Squares, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY
2017 Brushless, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2017 New Gallery, New Work, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Festivus, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Twofold, The Gallery at Industry City, Dedalus Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Cecile Chong
2013 Pour, Asya Geisberg Gallery and Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2013 Pour, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL; curated by Elisabeth Condon and Carol Prusa
2011 Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2011 30: Brooklyn Salon Exhibition, BRIC Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Material Color, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ; curated by Mary Birmingham
2004 Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Charlotta Kotik and Tumelo Mosaka
2002 25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2002 Jump, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2000 Fluid Flow, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
1999 Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY
1998 Fashioned, White Box, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA
1997 Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Surface and Shadow: Abstraction Revisited, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1989 Strange Attractors: The Spectacle of Chaos, traveling exhibition; curated by Klaus Ottmann
1987 Selections 42, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; curated by Peter Drake
SELECTED PUBLIC PROJECTS & COMMISSIONS
2025 Steller's Jay, Morgan Stanley One Post Office Square, Boston, MA; commissioned through Heskin Projects
2021 Current, Arts Brookfield, One New York Plaza, New York, NY; site-specific mural installation, curated by Tom Kotik
2020 Four multipart paintings, Peachtree Center, Atlanta, GA; corporate commission in collaboration with Morgan Lehman Gallery
PUBLIC & INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State
ArtBank Collection, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
NewYork-Presbyterian, New York, NY
Morgan Stanley, Boston, MA
Capital Group
Public Art for Public Schools, New York, NY
Percent for Art Program, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
Francis Greenburger Collection, New York, NY
SELECTED PRESS
2020 Tory Akers, “The New Abstraction: 8 Artists to Start Collecting Now,” Artspace
2019 Tom McGlynn, “Carolanna Parlato’s Sporting Informe,” Two Coats of Paint; Cori Hutchinson, “The Floatable Formations of Carolanna Parlato,” Whitehot Magazine
2016 Tom McGlynn, “Carolanna Parlato: A Delicate Balance,” The Brooklyn Rail; Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint; James Panero, The New Criterion
2015 Matthew Guy Nichols, “Carolanna Parlato: Threshold,” Art in America; Beverly Acha, Artcritical
2013 Franklin Einspruch, Artcritical
2012 Beverly Acha, Artcritical
2010 Ann Landi, ARTnews; James Panero, The New Criterion
2008 Stephen Maine, The New York Sun; Joanne Mattera Art Blog
2006 Matthew Guy Nichols, Art in America; David Cohen, The New York Sun
2004 Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe; David Cohen, The New York Sun; James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail
2002 Ken Johnson, The New York Times; D. Dominick Lombardi, The New York Times; Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe
2000 Ken Johnson, The New York Times
1998 Barry Schwabsky, The New York Times
EDUCATION
MFA, Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1980
BS, University of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY, 1978