SELECTED SOLO and 2 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026 Other Worlds:Trees, Flowers and Birds, Solo Exhibition, Nick Ryan Gallery, Boulder CO
2026 Uncultivated, Solo Exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2024 Wildflower Halo, Solo Exhibition, Nick Ryan Gallery, Boulder, CO
2023 Curious Woods, Solo Exhibition, Red Fox Contemporary Art, Pound Ridge, NY
2022 Between the Branches: Paintings by Claire McConaughy, Solo Exhibition, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2021 Nearby, Solo Exhibition, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Velvet Woods, Nurture Nature Center, Easton, PA
2019 Not So Far Away Paintings by Claire McConaughy, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2018 Woods, Yashar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Still Air, 2-person exhibition, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2016 Visual Fictions, Ciarco Learning Center, Hackensack, NJ
2016 Summer Paintings, Yashar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Claire McConaughy: Recent Paintings, The Painting Center Project Room, New York, NY
2002 Memory Floods; Curator, Robert Curcio, Find Outlet, New York, NY
1999 Carol Schlosberg Gallery at Montserrat College Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
1997 The Lobby Gallery of the Deutsche Bank; New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Changing Landscapes, Curators, Hallie Cohen, Adrienne Baxter Bell, and Beth Shipley, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
2026 Nightfall, Susquehanna Art Museum, Curator Gage Branda, Harrisburg, PA
2025 A Tree At My Window Collective presents: A Gathering in the Woods, Upstate Art Weekend exhibition
2025 Spring Fever, Carriage Barn Arts Center, Susan Eley Curator, New Canaan, CT
2025 Strata, Off-70 Studio, Cultivate Artist Collective, Hancock, MD
2024 DFN Gallery, Garvey Simon, New York, NY
2024 Imprimatur Leaving Their Mark: MMC Art Faculty 1974-2024, Curators, Hallie Cohen and Beth Shipley, The Hewitt Gallery of Art, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
2024 One Peaceable Kingdom, Curator Anne Trauben, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2024 100 Women of Spirit, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2023 In It for the Long Haul, Curator Robert Curcio, Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC
2023 Nidus: Distraught Nature Salon, IceBox4, Curator Tom Fitzgibbon, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Some Kind of Nature, ecoArtspace, Juror Dominique Mazeaud, FOMA Guadalupe Center, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Esprit de L'Escalier, I Like Your Work, Summer exhibition catalog, Curator Alicia Puig
2023 A Light Exists in Spring, Birdhouse, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Marking Impressions, Garvey Simon Fine Art, San Anselmo, CA
2022 Viridis, Red Fox Contemporary Art, Pound Ridge, NY
2022 Break of Day, Edge of Night, Curators: Steven Cabral, Lisa Petker Mintz and Christopher Schade, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2022 Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, Curator Sue Spaid, ecoartspace, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center
2022 Like a Slight Hiccup..., La Grange Gallery, Cernay-Lès-Reims, France
2022 Acid Garden, Curators Judy Mannarino and Peter Hristoff, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY
2021 A Daze of Roses, Mizuma & Kips Gallery, New York, NY
2021 The Iridescent Era: Sue Wrbican featuring Matt Wrbican and Claire McConaughy, VisArts, Rockville, MD
2021 The Iridescent Yonder: Sue Wrbican featuring Matt Wrbican and Claire McConaughy, Riverviews Artspace, Craddock-Terry Gallery, Lynchburg, VA
2020 Eleven Women of Spirit, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Profound Objects, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
2018 Mutual Aid, Kent State University, Curators: Katharine Dufault, Jack McWhorter, Patricia Spergel, N.Canton, OH
2018 Luxurious Growth, Lichtundfire Gallery, Curators Robert Curcio and Priska Juska, New York, NY
2018 The Greatest Show on Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Summer in the City: The Brooklyn Show, Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport, MA
2017 The Innocence of Trees, Curator, Anne Trauben, The Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Lorimoto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Variations in Paint, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2015 Goldfinch Variations, Peters Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Spinning Fiction, 17 Frost Theater for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Persona, Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, College of St. Elizabeth, Morristown, NJ
2012 Reductive, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Curator, Dina Muenzfeld, Long Island City, Queens, NY
2011 Threads of Continuity, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
2011 Ucross Foundation: 27 Years of Visual Arts Residencies, Nicolaysen Museum, Casper, WY
2010 Portraits, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Fall Survey, Allen Projects, New York, NY
2003 Sequel, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA, Curator Bill Radawec
2002 The Drawing Center, 25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, New York, NY
2002 Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 one, Superior (an exhibition space), Curator, Bill Radawec, Cleveland, OH
2002 Conversation: Claire McConaughy and Stefanie Nagorka, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
2000 Abstract Paintings on Paper; Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Floating World; Site Simpatico, New York, NY
2000 Twice Born: Beauty; Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Curator, Shelley Bancroft, Boston, MA
1999 Dumb Bunnies and Dish Cloths, Brickbottom Gallery, Curator Barbara O'Brien, Boston, MA
1999 Size Matters, Gale Gates et al, Curator, Mike Weiss, Brooklyn, NY
1999 Harum-Scarum; Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Memory, TZ Art & Company; Curator, Tom Zollner, New York, NY
1997 TZ Art & Company; Curator, Tom Zollner, New York, NY
1996 No England/No Amsterdam; R.A.W. Real Art Ways; Curator J. Anderson, Mike & Doug Starn; Hartford, CT
1995 Unpainted Painting; The Lobby Gallery of the Deutsche Bank; New York, NY
1995 Untitled Painting; Art Initiatives; Curator, David Clarkson; New York, NY
1989 The Drawing Center; Selections 45; New York, NY
ART FAIRS
2022 Claire McConaughy Solo Presentation, Volta Art Fair, collaboration with Sentient Furniture, New York, NY
2020 Claire McConaughy Group Presentation, 14C Jersey City Art Fair, The Painiting Center, Jersey City, NJ
2006 Scope Hamptons, Claire McConaughy Solo Presentation, Scope Art Fair, Curcio Projects, Miami
2005 Scope NYC, Claire McConaughy Solo Presentation, Scope Art Fair, Curcio Projects, NYC
2004 Scope Los Angeles, Claire McConaughy Solo Presentation, Scope Art Fair, Curcio Projects, Miami
2003 Scope Miami, Claire McConaughy Solo Presentation, Scope Art Fair, Curcio Projects, Miami
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Imagery Estate Artistry Program, Imagery Winery, Glen Ellen, CA
City of Hope Project, Santa Ana, CA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Bergen County, NJ
JPMorgan, New York, NY
Sony Music, Los Angeles, CA
GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2026 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mt. San Angelo, VA
2024 Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
2024 Pouch Cove Foundation Artist Residency, Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada
2023 Millay Arts Core Residency, Austerlitz, NY
2022 MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, NH, Fisher Family Fellow 2022
2002 Santa Fe Art Institute Artist's Relief Residency, Santa Fe, NM
1997 UCROSS Foundation Residency, Clearmont, Wyoming
1999 Independent Project Support Grant, Artists' Space, New York, NY
1994 Mid-Atlantic/NEA Regional Visual Arts Fellowship finalist works on paper
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2017 VIBRANT, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
2014 Spinning Fiction, 17 Frost Theater of the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Threads of Continuity, Gallery Bergen, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
2002 Unraveling, Superior, an exhibition space; Cleveland, OH
1995 co-curator, Unpainted Painting; The Lobby Gallery of the Deutsche Bank; New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
White Hot Magazine, "Claire McConaughy, Uncultivated, at The Painting Center", by Jonathan Goodman, April 11, 2026
Two Coats of Paint, "Tracy Burtz and Claire McConaughy: Vulnerability and resilience at The Painting Center", by Elizabeth Johnson, March 23, 2026
Tussle, “Robert Curcio The Business of Art In Conversation with Jonathan Goodman”, October 7, 2025, Image reproduction: Stumble Upon Me Under the Pink Weeds, 2023
In It for the Long Haul, Catalog, 2024, Curator Robert Curcio, Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC
LiVE Mag!, Art and Poetry Journal 2024, Vol #21, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Lori Ortiz
Art Daily, Survey of Artists from Robert Curcio's 30-year career on view at Lichtundfire, Oct. 2023
Art Spiel, Featured Artist Claire McConaughy:Nearby at 490 Atlantic Gallery, Dec 13, 2021
White Hot Magazine, A Daze of Roses at Mizuma & Kips, by Siba Kumar Das, August 2021
Art Review City, Artist Q&A with Claire McConaughy, Feb. 16, 2021
White Hot Magazine, Claire McConaughy at The Painting Center by Robert Curcio, Nov. 2019
Feeling Tone Claire McConaughy's Landscapes, Barbara O'Brien, Catalogue Essay, Nov 2019
The Innocence of Trees at Drawing Rooms, by Bruce Halpin, online review posted June 19, 2017
Pierogi Gallery Flat File Artist Q&A, online interview posted April 1, 2015
David Cohen, ArtWorld Digest, The Seed Issue; Vol.2 Issue1, 2007
Diane Karp, Editor; New Observations; The Cultural Traveler's Guide; Spring/Summer 2002, Issue #128
Joanne Silver, And Now Something Different: Beauty; Boston Herald; August 11, 2000
Cuong P. Hoang, Beauty is in the Eye of a Curator; South End News; October 19, 2000
N. F. Karlins, Drawing Notebook; ARTNET Magazine Review; 2000
EDUCATION
MFA, Columbia University School of the Arts, 1988
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, 1981
TEACHING
2007-present, Professor, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
2007-2012, Instructor, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1998-2007, Adjunct Professor, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
1996-1999, Adjunct Professor, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
October 1999, Teaching Residency, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES / CRITIQUES
2019 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, The Art Lab, Staten Island, New York, NY
2003 George Washington University, Washington, DC
2002 Kent State University, Kent, OH
1992 Salisbury State College, Salisbury, MD