SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2025 — Steller’s Jay, Morgan Stanley OPOS, Boston, MA (commission, in collaboration with Heskin Projects)
2023 — SLIP, The Lobby Gallery at 860 Washington Street, New York, NY
2021 — Current, Arts Brookfield, large-scale mural project, curated by Tom Kotik, One New York Plaza, NY
2020 — Four large-scale paintings, Peachtree Center, Atlanta (commission in collaboration with Morgan Lehman Gallery, NYC)
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected Highlights)
2025 — Silvermine 75, Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT — Curated by Eleonor de Ropp Flatow
2025 — Turned and Turning Still, The Painting Center, NYC
2025 — Carolanna Parlato, Lucy Maki, Cynthia Hartling (three-person show), G2 Santa Fe, NM
2025 — Beauty is a Blast: For Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY — Curated by Christian Haub
2025 — Paper, Site: Brooklyn, NY — Curated by Rachel Gladfelter
2024 — Wishlist, Garvey|Simon at DFN Projects, NY, NY
2024 — A Legacy of Making, Connecticut College — Curated by Joanne Mattera
2024 — Winterexpositie, Galerie JoLi, The Netherlands
2024 — Among Friends, Metaphor Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2023 — Let’s See, Galerie JoLi & Art The Hague Fair, The Netherlands
2023 — A Legacy of Making, John D. Calandra Institute, NY, NY
2023 — Radiate, Garvey|Simon, New York, NY
2022 — XX: Twenty-Year Anniversary, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
2022 — Slow Motions, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2021 — Magic, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2020 — Marigold, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 — Unfolding Dialogue: Four Voices, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
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 — Colorforms, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2017 — New Gallery, New Work, 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 & Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY
2013 — Pour, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL — Curated by Elisabeth Condon & Carol Prusa (catalog essay by Stephen Maine)
2013 — Walk on the Wild Side, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2011 — Art In Embassies Program, US Department of State, Guatemala City
2011 — Surfacing, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2011 — 30: Brooklyn Salon, BRIC Contemporary Art, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 — Kuf-Mold, A-Lokalite Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2008 — Material Color, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ — Curated by Mary Birmingham
2008 — Conversations in Paint, Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills, NY
2008 — Kuf-Mold, Jan Colle Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2007 — Kuf-Mold, Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey — Curated by Suzan Batu
2007 — Everything But..., Randolph-Macon College Gallery, Ashland, VA
2007 — Pillow Talk, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 — Soulful, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2007 — Fluid Abstraction, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2006 — Mix Masters, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
2005 — Splat, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 — Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY — Curated by Charlotta Kotik
2004 — New Year/New Work, OH+T Gallery, Boston, NY
2003 — Stroke, Schroeder/Romero Gallery, New York, NY
2003 — Summer Color, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2002 — Jump, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2002 — 25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2002 — Tilt, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
2002 — Spill, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
2002 — Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY
2001 — Collection Insights: Recent Acquisitions, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2000 — Fluid Flow, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY
2000 — Eye Candy (traveling show): Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum (San Bernardino, CA); Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana, CA) — Curated by Sue Joyce
2000 — Abstract Works on Paper, Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, NY
2000 — Out of Y2K, Im n IL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 — Skin Tight, The Workspace, New York, NY
1999 — Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York, NY
1999 — Three Painters, LA.NY.LA., Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 — Little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY
1998 — Fashioned, White Box, New York, NY & Philadelphia, PA
1998 — Unnatural Selection, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ
1997 — New York Drawers, Pierogi 2000 flat file traveling show — Gasworks Gallery, London, UK; Corner House Gallery, Manchester, UK
1997 — Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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
2019 — Cori Hutchinson, “The Floatable Formations of Carolanna Parlato,” Whitehot Magazine
2016 — Tom McGlynn, “Carolanna Parlato: A Delicate Balance,” The Brooklyn Rail
2016 — Sharon Butler, “Sweet Direction for Carolanna Parlato,” Two Coats of Paint
2016 — James Panero, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion
2013 — Franklin Einspruch, “Oil as Water: Pour at Lesley Heller and Asya Geisberg,” Artcritical
2013 — Peter Frank, “Haiku Reviews,” Huffington Post
2012 — Beverly Acha, “Bringing the Hand Back into Play,” Artcritical
2012 — Matthew Guy Nichols, Behind the Sun (exhibition catalog, Elizabeth Harris Gallery)
2010 — Ann Landi, “Carolanna Parlato at Elizabeth Harris,” ARTnews
2010 — James Panero, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion
2010 — Charlotta Kotik, Vorticality in Motion (catalog essay, Elizabeth Harris Gallery)
2008 — Stephen Maine, “Call-and-Response,” The New York Sun
2006 — Matthew Guy Nichols, “Carolanna Parlato at the Phatory,” Art in America
2004 — Cate McQuaid, “Finding Fascination in Blots, Splats, Bubbles and Shimmer,” The Boston Globe
2004 — David Cohen, “Open House at the Brooklyn Museum,” The New York Sun / artcritical
2004 — James Kalm, “A Boom Grows in Brooklyn,” The Brooklyn Rail
2003 — Miriam Seidel, “New York Abstracts Energetic with Color,” The Philadelphia Inquirer
2002 — Ken Johnson, “Jump,” The New York Times
2002 — D. Dominick Lombardi, “Spill,” The New York Times
2001 — New American Paintings, Book XXXII
2001 — Barry Schwabsky, “Desire and Danger,” exhibition catalog essay
2000 — Ken Johnson, “Fluid Flow,” The New York Times
1999 — Barry Schwabsky, “Abstract Painting, Though Not Entirely,” The New York Times
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
New York Presbyterian Hospital at Methodist, Brooklyn, NY
Morgan Stanley, One Post Office Square, Boston, MA
Art in Embassies Program, US Department of State, Guatemala City, Guatemala
ArtBank Collection, US Department of State, Washington, DC
Francis Greenburger Collection
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Percent for Art Program, DCA, New York, NY
Pfizer Inc., New York, NY
Princess Cruise Line, Los Angeles, CA
Public Art for Public Schools, New York, NY
Capital Group
EDUCATION
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA — Painting and Printmaking
BS, University of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY