Referencing Baroque and Renaissance painting, literature, daily life, and her own body, Grace Carney eschews easy categorization in paintings that hover between abstraction and the suggestion of figurative forms. Reflecting an underlying interest in liminal spaces, her canvases embrace the ambiguity and messiness of the paint itself. Within the manifold layers of her densely worked surfaces, Carney confronts the complexity of contemporary existence and the pursuit of self-determination and transformation.

Born in Minnesota, Carney received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, in 2014, and MFA in Painting from the New York Studio School, New York, NY, in 2022. Carney was awarded the Jane C. Carrol Scholarship in 2020-2022 and the Hohenberg Travel Grant in 2022. Her work has been exhibited at Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong; P·P·O·W, New York; Beacon Gallery, Munich; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, Texas; and Steven Harvey Fine Arts Projects, New York. Carney has recently been featured in Galerie Magazine and W Magazine, among others.