Hilary Mccarthy Artist

Hilary McCarthy is a Contemporary Painter that lives and works in New York City. She holds a BFA in Painting from Hartford Art School and MFA in fine art at New York Academy of Art. She is currently working on an art history degree at Columbia University. She is an adjunct professor of Drawing and Painting at Laguna College of Art and Design. Her artist residencies include locations in Puglia, Italy, Johnson, VT, and Leipzig, Germany.

She paints women in the ocean. Her work evokes the complexities of the human condition where the ocean forms a vast rhythmic backdrop and a metaphor to ups and downs of the human experience through the lens of women.. The narrative of the paintings tests these two interfaces.

Columbia University, BA Art History 2017

New York Academy of Art, MFA Painting 2005

University of Hartford Art School, BFA Painting 1997

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020, The Light of the Sea, New Paintings by Hilary McCarthy, B Minus Studios
Santa Ana, CA

2017, The Weight of Oceans, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY

2016, The Wild Bird Fund Gallery, Songs of the Mute Swan, New York, NY

2013, Canvas Sails, Vaudeville Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

​2011, ACHTUNG, Leipzig, Germany


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 LPAPA Collector's Gala, Laguna Beach, CA

2019 In Search For the Real III, LCAD Faculty Exhibition, LCAD Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2019 James May Gallery, Beyond Earth and Sky, Algoma, Wisconsin

2019 Seven Degrees Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

​2019, Gallery Q, New Beginnings, Laguna Beach, CA

2019, Town and Country, Forest and Ocean Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2018, Mayson Gallery, Fragments of Self, New York, NY

2018, Grenning Gallery, Neptune in Pisces, New York, NY

2018, Mother and Child, Exhibition, Sugarlift Gallery, NY, NY

2018, Women's Exhibition, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY

2018, ERA Contemporary, Small Beauties Exhibition, New York, NY

2017, PANEPINTO Gallery, Through the Eyes of an Artist, Jersey City, NJ
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2017 Vistas, Union Arts Center, Sparkill, NY

2017, Nudes and Jewels, Collier West Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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2016, Dacia Gallery Holiday Show, Ne...