Carolanna Parlato is a contemporary painter whose layered abstractions invite multiple readings. Drawing on processes of transfer, layering, scraping, and revision, her paintings evoke weather, mapping, and geological time while remaining open to shifting interpretations.

Parlato has exhibited widely in New York City and throughout the United States since the 1990s. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Art in America, The Boston Globe, ArtNews, Artcritical, The Brooklyn Rail, Two Coats of Paint, The New Criterion, and Whitehot Magazine.

Her solo exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, The Phatory, and the Islip Art Museum. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, The Drawing Center, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Garvey|Simon, Art Cake, G2 Gallery (Santa Fe, NM), Galerie JoLi (The Netherlands), and numerous other venues.

Her work is represented in public and corporate collections including the Brooklyn Museum; the Library of Congress; Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State (Guatemala City); the ArtBank Collection (Washington, DC); NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital; the Francis Greenburger Collection; Public Art for Public Schools (NYC); Capital Group; Morgan Stanley; and the Islip Art Museum. She has also completed large-scale site-specific commissions for Peachtree Center (Atlanta) and Morgan Stanley OPOS Boston.

Parlato divides her time between Brooklyn and Kinderhook, New York. She received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute