Miranda Girard

Miranda Girard is an exhibiting and commissioned Boston artist. Her often figurative, representational paintings and drawings are motivated by expression, emotion and environment. She graduated summa cum laude from Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor’s Degree in General Fine Arts and a minor in Creative Writing, and received an MFA in Visual Arts, with high honors, from Western Connecticut State University.

Miranda also attended workshops at Studio Escalier, a contemporary classical art center in Argenton-Chateau, France; Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts; Silvermine Art Center; Sacred Heart University; The Art Students League; and Zoll School of Fine Art. She has studied with Sangram Majumdar, Carl Plansky, Palden Hamilton, David Kassan, Barry Nemett, Timothy Stotz, N. Michelle Tully and others. She is a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City.

Select awards include the W. B. Connor Trust, the Connecticut University Grant, Studio Escalier Waterway Fellowship, Maryland Institute College of Art Trustee Scholarship and Trumbull, Connecticut’s Artist of the Year.

Her works are in private collections in the United States and Europe.

Artist Statement:

"For me, a painting is a visual poem. The narrativ...

Master of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Western Connecticut State University (WCSU), Danbury, CT, high honors

Bachelor of Fine Arts, General Fine Art, Minor in Creative Writing, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, summa cum laude

Studio Escalier Art Intensive Program, Argenton-Chateau, France

Art Students League of New York, New York, NY

Zoll Studio of Fine Art, Baltimore, MD

Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, CT

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT

Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery | March 11th – April 16th, 2016
1084 Shennecossett Road, Groton, CT

Salmagundi Club Black and White Exhibition | January 18th – February 19th, 2016
47 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003

Miranda Girard, Rafaella Laroche, Robert Longley | April 16th – May 5th, 2015
84 Main Street, New Canaan, CT 06840

SCAN 45th Annual Spring Juried Spring Art Show | May 3rd – May 9th, 2015
84 Main Street, New Canaan, CT 06840

Five Artists | June 17th – July 5th, 2014
530 West 25th Street, #403, New York, NY 10001

MFA Thesis Exhibition Spring 2014 | March 27th – April 7th, 2014
181 White Street, Danbury, CT 06810

Miranda Girard, Paintings and Drawings | April 2013 – May 2014
16 Broadway, Milford, CT 06460

“The Melt” Juried Exhibition | Spring, 2013
11 Library Place, Danbury, CT 06810

Green | Spring, 2013
60 Newtown Road, Danbury, CT 06810

Small Works | Winter, 2012
60 Newtown Road, Danbury, CT 06810

Miranda Girard, Paintings and Drawings | Winter, 2011
3212 Broadway, Astoria, NY 11106

Summer Salon | Summer, 2010
233 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011

Flight | April, 2010
233 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011

Flowers | February, 2010
233 West 19th Street, New York, NY 1...