SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONS
2025 – ongoing
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 – ongoing
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
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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
(Selected Highlights)
2025
Turned and Turning Still, The Painting Center, NYC
Carolanna Parlato, Lucy Maki, Cynthia Hartling (three-person show), G2 Santa Fe, NM
Beauty is a Blast: For Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, curated by Christian Haub, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
Paper, curated by Rachel Gladfelter, Site: Brooklyn, NY
2024
Wishlist, Garvey|Simon at DFN Projects, NY, NY
A Legacy of Making, Connecticut College, curated by Joanne Mattera
Winterexpositie, Galerie JoLi, The Netherlands
Among Friends, Metaphor Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Let’s See, Galerie JoLi and Art The Hague Fair, The Netherlands
A Legacy of Making, John D. Calandra Institute, NY, NY
Radiate, Garvey|Simon, New York, NY
2022
XX: Twenty-Year Anniversary, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
Slow Motions, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
Among Friends, Equity Gallery, NY
2021
Magic, Metaphor Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2020
Marigold, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Unfolding Dialogue: Four Voices, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
[1995–2019]
Full list available on request.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
Tory Akers, “The New Abstraction: 8 Artists to Start Collecting Now,” Artspace, February 7
2019
Tom McGlynn, “Carolanna Parlato’s Sporting Informe,” Two Coats of Paint, December 6
Cori Hutchinson, “The Floatable Formations of Carolanna Parlato,” Whitehot Magazine, December 13
2016
Tom McGlynn, “Carolanna Parlato: A Delicate Balance,” The Brooklyn Rail, February (Web exclusive)
Sharon Butler, “Sweet Direction for Carolanna Parlato,” Two Coats of Paint, February 10
James Panero, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, February
Piri Halasz, “Appealing Duo: Parlato & Walker at Elizabeth Harris,” From the Mayor’s Doorstep, January 10
2013
Franklin Einspruch, “Oil as Water: Pour at Lesley Heller and Asya Geisberg,” Artcritical, September 19
John Haber, “Pour It On,” June
Peter Frank, “Haiku Reviews,” July 13
2012
Piri Halasz, “Carolanna Parlato,” From the Mayor’s Doorstep
Beverly Acha, “Bringing the Hand Back into Play: Carolanna Parlato at Elizabeth Harris,” Artcritical
Matthew Guy Nichols, Behind the Sun, exhibition catalog, Elizabeth Harris Gallery
2010
Ann Landi, “Carolanna Parlato at Elizabeth Harris,” ARTnews, April
James Panero, “Gallery Chronicle,” The New Criterion, March
Charlotta Kotik, “Vorticality in Motion,” exhibition catalog, Elizabeth Harris Gallery
2009
Mary Birmingham, “Material Color,” exhibition catalog, Hunterdon Art Museum
2008
Stephen Maine, “Call-and-Response,” The New York Sun, January 17
Joanna Mattera, “Carolanna Parlato at Elizabeth Harris Gallery,” Joanna Mattera Art Blog, March 1
2006
Matthew Guy Nichols, “Carolanna Parlato at the Phatory,” Art in America, May
David Cohen, “Prada Boxes & Motherboards – Zucker, Isensee and Parlato at the Phatory,” The New York Sun, January 26
2004
Cate McQuaid, “Finding Fascination in Blots, Splats, Bubbles and Shimmer: Jazzy Supersplat,” The Boston Globe, May 14
David Cohen, “Open House at the Brooklyn Museum,” The New York Sun, April 22 and artcritical.com
Brooklyn Museum, “Open” exhibition catalog
James Kalm, “A Boom Grows in Brooklyn,” The Brooklyn Rail, July
DK Row, “Shows of Note: Surface Tension,” The Oregonian, December
2003
Cate McQuaid, “Galleries,” The Boston Globe, January 17
David Cohen, “Summer Color,” The New York Sun, July 3
Miriam Seidel, “New York Abstracts Energetic with Color,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 12
2002
Ken Johnson, “Jump,” The New York Times
D. Dominick Lombardi, “Spill,” The New York Times, July 7
Cate McQuaid, “Critics’ Picks: Carolanna Parlato Vivid,” The Boston Globe, April 5
“Vivid,” South End News, April 18
Renee Kaplan, “The South End’s Surprising New Warehouse Chic,” Harvard Law School Record, April 11
2001
New American Paintings, Book XXXII, pp. 130–133
Barry Schwabsky, “Desire and Danger,” exhibition catalog essay, Carolanna Parlato: Perfume River Series
2000
Ken Johnson, “Fluid Flow,” The New York Times, August 11
Susan Joyce, Eye Candy (catalog), Cal State University, San Bernardino / Grand Central Press, pp. 28–29
James Kalm, “Carolanna Parlato, Perfume River @ Cheryl Pelavin,” NY ARTS International, March
“The Art Guide,” New York Magazine, August 14, p. 83 (reproduction of Perfume River III)
1998–1999
Jennifer Dalton, “Fashioned,” REVIEW, September 15
Bill Arning, Fashioned, White Box (exhibition catalog)
Barry Schwabsky, “Abstract Painting, Though Not Entirely,” The New York Times, October 25
Sue Scott, “Carolanna Parlato: Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art,” COVER, May
Tom McGlynn, Unnatural Selection: The Transformation of Nature in Abstraction, Raritan Valley College (exhibition catalog)
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
Capitol Group
EDUCATION
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA — Painting and Printmaking
BS, University of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY