RESUME

Cara Lynch

www.CaraLynchStudio.com | Cara@CaraLynchStudio.com

Born 1990 in New York

Lives and works in New York and Nashville

Education 

2020           MFA, Visual Art, Columbia University, New York

2012           BFA, Studio Art, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York

Select Exhibitions

2024           Off the Grid, 5-50 Gallery, Long Island City, Queens, NY

                  Ripple Affect, Lagoon NYC, Brooklyn, NY (solo show)

                  Intimacies, Red 225, Nashville, TN

                  Open Air, University of Connecticut, Avery Point, Groton, CT

                  Pathetic Fallacy, Whittaker Gallery, Hood College, Frederick, Maryland (solo show)

                  DRAW exhibition, Lowell, Massachusetts (forthcoming)

2023           Less is a Bore, Blah Blah Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

                    Rise, Modfellows Gallery, Nashville, TN (two-person show with Suzy Smith)

                  Artist/Curator, Project Gallery V, Brooklyn, NY

                  Pareidolia, BAFFA Gallery at the Gillette House, Sayville, NY (solo show)

                  School’s Out for Summer, Fort Tilden Building T-7, Rockaway, NY

                  Under the Sun, Studio 18, Pembroke Pines, FL

2022           The Vessel, Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL

Out of Body, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY

Many More, Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Faculty Exhibition, University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

2021           Rolling, Rolling, Rolling, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

Clearing the Air, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY

Art of Healing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Class of 2020 Thesis Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

In Response, Jewish Museum, New York, NY 

2020           Seasonal Repression, Field Projects, New York, NY

Minorly Magical, K & P Gallery, New York, NY

Alone Together, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA

2019           Extra Pulp, IS Projects, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Aesthetically Functional Only, 1675 Broadway, New York, NY

Art 52nd Street 2019, Gallery MC, New York, NY

Published by the Artist, IPCNY, New York, NY

First Year Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

Heart Broken, NYU Medical Center Gallery, New York, NY

The Lamp Show, Head Hi, Brooklyn, NY

2018           On Reflection, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY

Artists In Residence, Morgan Papermaking Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

Shattered Dreams, Morris Jumel Mansion Museum, New York, NY (solo show)

2017           I’m Here For You, Adelphi University Gallery, Garden City, NY (two-person show with

Monica Chulewicz) 

2013           Ephemeral, Adelphi University Gallery, Garden City, NY

Select Public Projects

2024           Barclays Center Escalators, Brooklyn, NY

Swirls and Whirls, Patchogue-Medford Public Library, Patchogue, NY (forthcoming)

(permanent)

                  Wavy Tables, Pompano Beach, FL (forthcoming) (permanent)

2023           Kindred, Troy Public Art, 3rd Street, Downtown Troy, NY

Bronx Buildings, Montefiore Children’s Emergency Room, Bronx, NY (permanent)

2022           Sunny Day, City of Long Beach Bayfront Park, Long Beach, NY

Radiate Positivity, Nashville International Airport, C Terminal, Nashville, TN

2021           New Light, NYCHH, Gotham Health Vanderbilt, Staten Island, NY (permanent)

                  Carpet Collage, NYC DOT, Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

2019           Behold, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Long Island Center, Hempstead, NY

2018           I’m So Happy You’re Here, Virginia Park, Bronx, NY

2017           Future Perfect,  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Brooklyn Infusion Center,

Brooklyn, NY

2016           Inheritance, In Memory of American Glass, NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority, Arts and

Design, Ditmas Avenue Subway Station, Culver (F) Line, Brooklyn, NY (permanent)

                  Newark Sampler, the Gateway Project, Penn Station, Newark, NJ

2015           Revival, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY

                  Chrystie Street, 100 Gates and Lower East Side BID, New York, NY

2013           What We Came For, NYC DOT, 165th Street, Bronx, NY

2012           The Heart’s Best Feelings Gather Home, NYC DOT, Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY

Awards and Residencies

2024                    NYSCA SCR Grant: Creative Communities, Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY

2023                    NYSCA SCR Grant: Creative Individual, Huntington Arts Council, Huntington, NY

2020                    Morty Frank Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY

2018 – 2020         LeRoy Neiman Fellow, Columbia University, New York, NY

2017                    Morgan Papermaking Conservatory, Kingston, NY

2014                    Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY

Lectures and Panels

2021           Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY

                  Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

2020           Long Island University, Brookville, NY

2018           Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

2015           Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY

Collections 

Harvard University Art Museum, Print Collection, Boston, MA 

University of Miami, Special Collections, Miami, FL 

NYC Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts and Design, New York, NY 

NYC Health and Hospitals, New York, NY 

Metro Arts Lending Library, Nashville, TN

Select Bibliography

2024

Bloodworth, S., & Hageman, C. (2024). Contemporary Art Underground. MTA Arts & Design, New York. Monacelli Press. Phaidon Press. Page 199.

New American Paintings (Vol. 172). Open Studios Press. Juried by Jennifer Inacio. (2024).

Gordon, Sarah. “Combining Art and Movement at UConn Avery Point.” The Day [New London, CT ], https://www.theday.com/local-news/20240502/combining-art-and-movement-at-uconn-avery-point/. Accessed 4 May 2024.

2023

Boyle , Kathleen. “Exhibition Review: ‘Rise’ at Modfellows Gallery.” Number: Inc., 24 June 2023, www.numberinc.org/exhibition-review-rise-at-modfellows-gallery/

2022

Luftglass, Rick, and Jan Rothschild. Healing Walls: New York City Health + Hospitals Community Mural Project 2019-2021. Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund, 2022.

“Arts at the Airport and Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival® Announce Winners of the 9th Annual Bonnaroo-Themed Skylight Exhibition at BNA .” Flynashville.Com, 2022, flynashville.com/press-releases/arts-at-the-airport-and-bonnaroo-music-arts-festival-announce-winners-of-the-9th-annual-bonnaroo-themed-skylight-exhibition-at-bna

2021

Nyary, Sasha. “A Magic Painted Carpet Ride Cara Lynch 12 and Fellow Alumni Create Public Art in Brooklyn.” Adelphi University, 15 Sept. 2021, www.adelphi.edu/news/a-magic-painted-carpet-ride-cara-lynch-12-and-fellow-alumni-create-public-art-in-brooklyn/.

2020

McLean, Sammi, and Ingrid Schindall. “Extra Pulp: A Paper-Forward Portfolio Exchange.” Hand Papermaking Magazine, 2020, p. 10, www.handpapermaking.org/magazine-articles/extra-pulp-a-paper-forward-exchange-portfolio. Accessed 1 Aug. 2023.

2016

Mafi, Nick. “Street Art in New York City Just Got 100 Times Better.” Architectural Digest, 15 Sept. 2016, www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/street-art-new-york-city-just-got-100-times-better.