Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative works was chosen as a finalist for the 2016 Outwin Boochever Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C and another was selected for the 2015 BP Portrait Award Show at the National Portrait Gallery in London. In addition, the historic Guild of Boston Artists elected her to become a member in 2015, and she won the Edmund C. Tarbell Award in her first juried members show. She then won the Charles Movalli Award of Excellence from the Guild 3 years later. Carmody received the Blanche E. Colman Award as well as the Newcomb Award for Traditional Painting. She was invited to exhibit in the 2016 American Masters show at the Salmagundi Club. In 2022 She won the North Shore Arts Award at the Guild of Boston Artists.

Carmody exhibits work regularly in solo and group shows at the Sloane Merrill Gallery, The Grenning Gallery, the Guild of Boston Artists, and The Christina Gallery. 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 from the Art Students League 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 is married to Viktor Butko and paints and teaches in and around her Waltham, MA studio.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston MA With All Things Ringing
2020 Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston MA Summer Reflections
2018 Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston MA New Work
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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Grenning Gallery, Musings, Sag Harbor NY
Sloane Merrill Gallery, Paired Boston, MA
Customs House Museum, Still Life invitational, Clarksville TN
2022 Grenning Gallery, Candid Grandeur, Sag Harbor, NY
Grenning Gallery, Life Saturated, Sag Harbor, NY
2021 Grenning Gallery, Americana, 2 Person show, NY
2019 Grenning Gallery, 3 Person Show, Sag Harbor, New York
Guild of Boston Artists, Members Show, Boston, MA
Grenning Gallery, Women in Painting, Sag Harbor , New York
2018 Grenning Gallery, Fresh Virtuosity, Sag Harbor , New York
Guild of Boston Artists, Members Show, Boston, MA
Grenning Gallery, Russian-American Alliance, Sag Harbor, NY
2017 Grenning Gallery, Gems, Sag Harbor
2016 National Portrait Gallery, Outwin Boochever Exhibtion, Washington D.C
Salmagundi Club, American Masters 2016, New York, NY
Ann Long Fine Art, Stillness, Charleston, South Carolina
2015 National Portrait Gallery, BP Portrait Award Exhibtion, London England
The Guild of Boston Artists, Members Show, Boston, MA
2014 Ann Long Gallery, Hats, Headdresses and Turbans, Charleston, SC
Sloane Merrill Gallery, New Faces, Boston, MA
Portrait Society of America, The Art of the Portrait, Reston, VA
2013 Art Students League, Grant Winners Exhibition, New York, NY
Ann Long Gallery, Birds of a Feather, Charleston, SC
Sloane Merrill Gallery, Back to Back, Boston, MA
The Art Students League, Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
2012 The Guild of Boston Artists, Annual Representational Painting Competition,Boston, MA
2011 Art Students League, Merit Scholarship Winners Exhibition, New York, NY
2008 The Guild of Boston Artists, Annual Representational Painting Competition, Boston,
MA
2007 Cambridge Art Association, RED, Cambridge, MA

HONORS AND AWARDS
2022 North Shore Arts Award, The Guild of Boston Artists
2019 Newcomb Award for Traditional Painting , Rockport Art Association
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 Portrait 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
2018 Turkey Land Cove Foundation, Artist in Residence
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
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 The Southampton Review, Summer/Fall 2016
Southwest Art, Kim Agricola. “Artist to Watch“, November 2016
2015 Fine Art Connoisseur, Cover, July/August 2015
2014 Fine Art Today, Carlson, Jeffrey. “Kelly Carmody, Classical Painter,Contemporary
Elegance,” July, 2014
Fine Art Today, Carlson, Jeffrey. “Big Winners Announced in Annual Portrait
Competition,” May/June 2014
American Art Collector, Stricklin, Krystle. “A Will of Their Own,” August 2014 p.6467
International Artist Magazine, 16th Annual Awards Showcase, August/September, p.
3439
2012 Melrose Free Press, Sacco, Jessica. “Artist Packs History, Modernism into Tiny
Canvases,” September 6, 2012 p.B1
Northshore Magazine, Jacques, Kiley. “Little Treasures,” December 2012, p.29
LINEA Journal of the Art Students League, Vol. 16, No.1, p. 13
2011 Boston Home Magazine, Vickman, Anne. “Found Art,” Fall 2011
2010 LINEA Journal of the Art Students League, Vol. 14, No.2, p. 19
2008 Studio Visit Magazine
2006 Boston Globe, City Weekly. “Faces of Boston” Review, June 25, 2006, p. 12
2005 Weekly Dig, Ledogar, Kate. “Screaming from the Gallery”
“Fashionably Late,” Review, November 16, 2005, p.60
Boston Globe Sidekick. Feature, “Fashionably Late,” November 3, 2005, p. 2
2004 Boston Magazine, “Open Season,” Portrait featured in press for Fort Point Open
Studios, October 2004, p. 249

EDUCATION
2009-11 Art Students League, New York, NY
2002-04 Studio of Numael Pulido, Hancock, NH
1998-01 University of Massachusetts Boston, Bachelor of Arts, Boston, MA
1995-97 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

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