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