Kelly Carmody Figurative Paintings
American, b. 1977
Kelly Carmody | 1977 | Topsfield, Massachusetts Kelly Carmody has exhibited at venues including the Portrait Society of America and the Art Students League. Most recently, she was selected for the 2015 BP Portrait Award Show at the National Portrait Gallery in London and the 2016 Outwin Boochever Award at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. In addition, the historic Guild of Boston Artists elected her to become a member in 2015, she won the Edmund C. Tarbell Award in her first juried members show. The winning portrait is on the cover of July/August edition of Fine Art Connoisseur. In June of 2015 she received the Blanche E. Colman Award. She was invited to exhibit in the 2016 American Masters show at the Salmagundi Club.
She currently has work at the The Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY, Sloane Merrill Gallery in Boston, the Guild of Boston Artists, and the Ann Long Gallery in Charleston, SC. Publications that have featured her work include American Art Collector, Fine Art Connoisseur, International Artist Magazine, Fine Art Today, Southwest Art, Studio Visit Magazine, Boston Magazine, and The Boston Globe. Carmody has won grants from the Ludwig Foundation, Turkey Land Cove Foundation, and Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as receiving an Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant and the Walter Feldman Grant. In 2014 she won 3rd place in the Portrait Society’s International Portrait Competition. Carmody attended Massachusetts College of Art and furthered her studies at the Art Students League and in the studio of Numael Pulido.
She paints and teaches in her Waltham, MA studio.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston MA
2015 Walter Feldman Gallery, Kelly Carmody: Deeper Sense, Boston, MA
Sloane Merrill Gallery, Kelly Carmody: Evocations, Boston MA
2006 Newton Free Library, Portraits in Oil, Newton, MA
2005 Stel’s, Fashionably Late: Oil Portraits by Kelly Carmody, Boston, MA
HONORS AND AWARDS 2019 Newcomb Award for Traditional Painting , Rockport Art Assocation
2018 Charles Movali Award for Excellence in Painting awarded by the Guild of Boston Artists
2015 Colman Blanche Award
Edmund C. Tarbell Award, The Guild of Boston Artists
Finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition
Finalist for the BP Portait Award 2014 3rd Place, The Art of the Portrait International Portrait Competition
2013 Finalist, Figurative Painting Competition, Art Renewal Center
2012 Finalist, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Painting
2010 Merit Scholarship, Art Students League
2008 Finalist, Figurative Painting Competition, Art Renewal Center
Emerging Artist Award, Annual New England Representational Competition,Guild Of Boston Artists
2007 Best of Show, RED, Cambridge Art Association
Finalist, The Artist’s Magazine, 24th Annual Art Competition, Portraits and Figure GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2015 Walter Feldman Emerging Artist Grant
2014 Turkey Land Cove Foundation, Artist in Residence
Walter Feldman Fellowship
2012 The Wassaic Project, Artist in Residence
2011 Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant (2 months travel to Europe)
2010 Jean Gates Foundation Grant
2008 Welcome Hill Studios, Artist in Residence
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