GRACE DEGENNARO
EDUCATION
MFA Painting and Sculpture, Columbia University, New York, NY
BS Fine Arts, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University, London, England
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Continuum, Zero Station Gallery, Portland, ME
2023 The Art Lounge, The Current, Stowe, VT
Platonic Structures, The Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME
2021 Night Bloom, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY (online)
2020 Spotlight: Grace DeGennaro, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME
2018 Ordinary Time, Grace DeGennaro and Anne Lilly, The Current, Stowe, VT
2017 Ordinary Time, Grace DeGennaro and Anne Lilly, The Bundy Modern, Waitsfield, VT curated by Walker Contemporary
2016 Continuum, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Art in the Capitol, Maine Arts Commission, State House, Augusta, ME
2012 Woven Mysteries: Grace DeGennaro & Brece Honeycutt, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
New Work, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2010 Indigo, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2009 Return to the Source, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2008 Rivers, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 Beaded, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2005 Dreambody, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2004 Paintings and Drawings, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick, ME
Works on Paper, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2001 New Work, Zero Station, Portland, ME
2000 Vesicas, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1999 Hand-colored Drypoints, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA
1994 New Works, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 A Legacy of Making, Part 2, Carney Gallery, St. Regis College, Weston, MA curated by Joanne Mattera
2025-24 Lacuna, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballinglen, County Mayo, Ireland, curated by Nuala Clarke
2024 Focus on the Flatfiles: Color Moves, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Joelle Baxter
The Numbers Game, University of New England Art Gallery, Portland, ME, curated by Hilary Irons
Infinity, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Over/Under the Surface, Ice House, Hopkins Wharf Gallery, North Haven, ME, curated by Emily Trenholm
2023 Focus on the Flatfiles: Likeness, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY curated by Sallie Mize
Thought Forms, daphne:art, Bantam, CT
Threshold, Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
Attention to Detail, Cove Street Gallery, Portland, ME curated by Lin Lisberger
2022 The More the Merrier, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME
Winter Holiday Exhibition, The Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME
Murmuration, Zero Station, Portland, ME
Cosmic Geometries, EFA Project Space, New York, NY curated by Hilma's Ghost (Sharmistha Ray and Dannielle Tegeder)
Walk the Line, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME curated by Tim Peterson
Moonstruck, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Fragmentary Blue, Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT curated by Joan Baldwin and Terri Moore
2021 Summer Bomb Pop: Collections in Dialogue, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
REverb, Zero Station, Portland, ME curated by Tracey Cockrell and J.E. Paterak
Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Fellows & Residents, Cove Street Arts, Portland, ME curated by Donna McNeil
2020 From Dark to Light: A Holiday Celebration, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY (online)
Seeing the Unseeable, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Temporality: The Process of Time, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME
Portrait: The Kentler Flatfiles in 58 Works, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY curated by David Houston
10,000+ Hours, Speedwell Projects, Portland, ME
Green: The Impossible Color, The Painting Center, New York, NY curated by Rachael Wren
Perfection, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME
2018 Heaven and Earth, Drive-By Projects, Watertown, MA
Drawing II: The Other Day, Engine, Biddeford, ME curated by Deb Whitney
New Geometry II, Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT
Reverence to the Thread, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
2017 Indigo: The Seventh Color, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY curated by Lorrie Fredette and Brece Honeycutt
Patterning: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY curated by Samantha Friedman
Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY curated by Rachel Seligman and Rachel Roe Dale
Focus on the Flatfiles: In Bloom, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Lines of Thought, CTN Gallery, Portland, ME
Abstractions, Greenhut Galleries, Portland, ME
2016 Artists’ Choice, Ellsworth Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Curative Abstraction, Wright Gallery, Northport, MI
Summer Invitational, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
You Go Girl! Celebrating Women Artists, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Art of the Hand Pulled Print: Peregrine Press at 25, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME
USM/UMVA: Forging Affinities, Art Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
2015 Stack/File: Selections from the Kentler Flatfiles, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY curated by Ana Torok
2014 Holiday Exhibition, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY
Shroud, United States Embassy, Doha, Qatar
Continuum Series, United States Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa
Alumni Invitational 4, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs NY, curated by Rachel Seligman
The
Perfect Measure, Saugerties Performing Arts Factory, Saugerties NY
Sacred,
Parlor Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Relativity,
Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
Recent
Acquisitions, University of New England, Portland, ME
Rhythm
and Repetition, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
2013 Inside Out, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Laura Phipps
Summer Cocktail, Tria Gallery, New York, NY
Maine Women Pioneers, Dirigo, University of New England, Portland ME
2012 2012 Biennial, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Textility, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit NJ, curated by Mary Birmingham and Joanne Mattera
Paper Trail, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2011 The Kentler Flatfiles @ 21, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent Collection, Heckscher Museum, NY
Conversations, Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY curated by Joanne Mattera and Laura Moriarty
2010 Alchemy: Art and Science, Schiltkamp Gallery, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Mirare, Alva deMars Chapel Art Center, St Anselm College, Manchester, NH
2009 Abstract Painting, Lynda Anderson Gallery, Locust Valley, New York
2008 To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, curated by Lynn Gamwell and Elizabeth Merryman
The Discerning Eye of Rosemarie Frick, Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 Maine Print Project, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
The Line of Beauty, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Order(ed), Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA
On Paper, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
2005 Transcribing Time, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
2004 Spiritual Geometry, New Art Center, Newton, MA, curated by Susan Goldweitz
2003 Zero Portfolio, Zero Station, Portland, ME
Passion, June Fitzpatrick Gallery at MECA, Portland, ME
2002 Six Select Six, University of New England, Portland, ME
Fall Invitational, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2001 Summer Invitational, Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA
The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
Abstraction: 22 Visions, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset, ME
1999 Selections, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
Painter/Printmaker, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
1997 Works on Paper, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Selections, Robert Clements Gallery, Portland, ME
Images in Multiple: Six Women Printmakers, State House Gallery, Augusta, ME
1995 Printmaking, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
A Winters Work, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
1993 Dreams: Poetic Memory, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
What’s Going on Now? A Democratic Survey of New Art in Maine, Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
Fire Meets Water, Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1989 Hudson River Open, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1988 Yoho Studios Exhibition, College of Westchester, Scarsdale, NY
1986 Small Works, New York University Gallery, New York, NY curated by Holly Solomon
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Painters and Sculptors Grant, Finalist
2020 Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Studio Resident, Rockland, ME
2017 Catwalk Institute, Artist Residency, Catskill, NY
2015 Catwalk Institute, Artist Residency, Catskill, NY
2012 Ballinglen Arts Fellowship, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland
2004 Good Idea Grant (GIG), Maine Arts Commission
1998 Individual Artist Grant, Work on Paper, New England Foundation for the Arts
1989 Contemporary Artist Award, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
COLLECTIONS
Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
Gund Collection, Boston, MA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
University of New England, Portland, ME
Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, County Mayo, Ireland
Wellington Management, Boston, MA
Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA
AstraZeneca, Boston, MA
Bell Atlantic, New York, NY
Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
Mintz, Levin Associates, New York, NY
AFFILIATIONS
2020-present National Advisory Council, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College
2014-present Art in Embassies (AIE), United States Department of State
2011-present The Kentler Flatfiles, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2006-present Geoform, a curatorial project with a focus on geometry in contemporary abstract art
2011-2014 Board Trustee, The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Portland, ME
2009-2014 Drawing Center Registry, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Joanne Mattera, Italianita: Contemporary Art Inspired by the Italian Immigrant Experience, 2024
Cate McQuaid, Lunar Passage, Substack, 2024
Jorge Arango, Two Painting Shows to See Now, Portland Press Herald, 2024
Hannah Elizabeth Bevens, Platonic Structures Exhibition Essay, 2023
Alan Crichton, Platonic Structures and Holy Week, The Free Press, March 2023
Jillian Steinhauer, Cosmic Geometries, New York Times, February 2022
Jorge Arango, Walk the Line, Portland Press Herald, February 2022
Jorge Arango, REverb, Portland Press Herald, October 2021
Julia Buntaine Hoel, Algorithmic Issue, SciArt Magazine, 2020
Edgar Allen Beem, Art Seen: Time for Art, Portland Phoenix, 2019
Daniel Kany, CMCA Takes on the Theme of Time, Portland Press Herald, 2019
Edgar Allen Beem, Maine in the Abstract, Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, 2019
Rachel Seligman and Rachel Roe-Dale, Sixfold Symmetry: Pattern in Art and Science, Tang Teaching Museum, 2019
Dan Kany, Skillfully curated, Able Baker exhibition explores ‘Perfection’ Portland, Press Herald, 2019
Ann Landi, Under The Radar, Vasari21, 2017
Daniel Kany, Lines of Thought, Portland Press Herald, 2017
Daniel Kany, Two Collaborative Exhibitions Push Boundaries, Portland Press Herald, 2016
Aileen Jacobsen, Museum Explores Trials of Women Artists, New York Times, 2016
Andres Azucena Verzosa, Grace DeGennaro, Art New England, 2016
Christina Hennessy, Science of Art, Greenwich Time, September 2014
Amy Griffin, Their Old School, Albany Times Union, June 2014
Sarah Stebbins, The Art Issue, Maine Home &Design, April 2014
Britta Konau, Women Lead at UNE, Portland Phoenix, July 2013
Daniel Kany, Maine Women Pioneers III, Dirigo, Portland Press Herald June 2013
Susanne Volmer, CMCA Biennial Exhibition, Artscope, November/December 2012
Nicholas Schroeder, Sorting through the CMCA’s Biennial, Portland Phoenix, October 2012
Daniel Kany, Biennial Backs Up Good Looks with Visceral Subtext, Portland Press Herald, 2012
Patricia Malarcher, Textility, Surface Design Journal, Fall Issue 2012
Daniel Kany, Math and Earthy Science, Portland Press Herald, April 2012
Carl Little, Indigo, Aucocisco Gallery, Art New England, April/May 2010
Nicholas Schroeder, Deep Blue, Aucocisco Gallery, The Boston Phoenix, April 2010
Daniel Kany, Indigo, Aucocisco Gallery, Maine Sunday Telegram, April 2010
Suzette McAvoy, The Language of Abstraction, Maine Home and Design, June 2009
Benjamin Genocchio, There’s Beauty in Numbers, The New York Times, June 2008
Julie Karabenick, Geoform Interview, https://geoform.net/
New American Paintings, Open Studio Press, Northeast Edition #62, 2006
Edith Newhall, Creative Styles of Their Own, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 2006
Roberta Fallon, Order(ed), Gallery Siano, Philadelphia, PA 2006
Cate McQuaid, Symmetry and Asymmetry, The Boston Globe, March 2004
Edgar Allen Beem, Maine in the Abstract, Down East magazine, August 2003
The Drawing Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 2002
Edgar Allen Beem, Unusually Abstract in Wiscasset, The Maine Times, August 2001
Maine Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME 1998
Greg Turner, Artist Inspired by Images, Words, Lincoln Journal, May 1998
Marcia Dalton, Tangents, Art New England, June/July 1994
Patricia Reis, Dreams: Poetic Memory, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME 1993
Helen Harrison, Heckscher Museum Invitational, The New York Times, December 1984
TEACHING/LECTURES
2024 The Current, Radiant Geometry, Stowe, VT
2023 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Critic, Visionary Art Seminar
2022-21 Maine College of Art & Design, Adjunct Faculty, Studio Instructor, MFA in Studio Arts
2018 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Artist
2017 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Artist
2016 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Artist
2015 SECAC, Sacred Geometry: Bridging Boundaries, Pittsburgh, PA
2014 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Artist
2013 Colby College, Waterville, ME, Visiting Artist
2012 University of Southern Maine, Book Arts at Stone House, Instructor
2011 Southern Maine Community College, South Portland, ME, Adjunct Faculty
2009 Maine Jung Center, A Kaleidoscope on Death and Dying, Brunswick, ME
2005 Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, Visiting Artist
2004 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, Visiting Artist
2002-1998 Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, Studio Instructor, MFA in Studio Arts
1998 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME , USM Leadership Institute
1994 Bates College, Lewiston, ME, Summer Arts Institute
1997-1991 Maine Arts Commission, Maine Touring Artist
1987 Mercy College, Tarrytown, NY, Adjunct Faculty
1987-1985 College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, Adjunct Faculty
Immutable 10, oil and cold wax on linen, 26 x 16", 2019