Grace Musser

Grace is a visual artist and scientist who creates haunting, detail-intensive oil paintings and sculptures based on images from her childhood and her research in a broad range of fields. She is especially interested in paradoxes inherent in science, history, and beauty. Grace is currently earning her Ph.D. in Geology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her educational background is multidisciplinary and comprises degrees and experiences in evolutionary biology, anthropology, museum preparation, and forensic autopsy, but the visual arts have always remained its foundation since she was a little girl. Grace has received several grants and awards, most notably the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation for the Arts Grant. She has additionally been included in a number of exhibitions, including the Junior Scholarship Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York City and the Young Contemporaries Exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina.

Ph.D. in Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (in progress)

2017 M.A. in Conservation Biology, Columbia University, New York, NY

2015 B.A. and B.S. (double major) in Studio Art and Anthropology respectively, the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC

2017 Salmagundi Members Summer Show, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (juried by Salmagundi board)
2017 Junior Scholarship Members Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (juried by Salmagundi Board)
2016 Friends & Students of Bruce Waldman, Maceo Mitchell and Patricia J. Wynne Exhibition; Mehu Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Herve Mehu)
2016 Black and White Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (juried)
2016 Junior Scholarship Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (juried by Salmagundi Board)
2016 Flowers for Tony, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC (curated by Karen Ann Meyers)
2015 Thumb-Box Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (juried by Salmagundi Board)
2015 Young Contemporaries Exhibition, The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, SC (juried by Lawren Alice)
2015 Junior Scholarship Member’s Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (juried by Susan Brand)
2015 Thumb-Box Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY (juried by Salmagundi Board)
2015 Flowers for Tony, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA (curated by Bob Snead)
2014 Senior Thesis Exhibition, The Hill Exhibition Gallery in the CATO Center for the Arts, Charleston, SC
2014 Young Contemporaries Exhibition, The ...