Grace DeGennaro was born in Rockville Centre, NY (1956). Her paintings and works on paper have been internationally exhibited at galleries and institutions, including Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME ; Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; EFA Project Space, New York, NY; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY; Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Cove Street Gallery, Portland, ME; The Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME; United States Embassy, Doha, Qatar and the United States Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa. Her work is included in various permanent institutional and private collections, including the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY; Smithsonian American Art Archives, Washington DC; Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, County Mayo, Ireland; Wellington Management, Boston, MA and Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA. She is the recipient of grants from the Maine Arts Commission, the New England Foundation for the Arts and a finalist for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Grant. DeGennaro has completed residencies at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland and The Catwalk Institute. She was a visiting artist at numerous colleges on the east coast, including Bowdoin College, Skidmore College and Colby College. She received an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from Columbia University and a BS in Fine Arts from Skidmore College. DeGennaro lives and works in Yarmouth, Maine.