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. She was awarded the Charles Movali Excellence in Painting Award in 2018. 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. In 2019 She won the Newcomb Award for Traditional Painting at the Rockport Art Association.
She currently has work at the Sloane Merrill Gallery in Boston, the Guild of Boston Artists, and the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, Long Island. 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 with her husband, Viktor Butko, in and around their 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 |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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 American Masters 2016, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY |
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 |
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
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
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 |
TEACHING
2008 Present |
Beginning and Advanced Oil Painting, Waltham, MA |
2013 |
Andover’s Artist Guild, Andover, MA, Artist Talk and Demonstration The Art Room, Topsfield, MA, Artist Talk and Demonstration Melrose Art Association, Artist Talk and Demo |
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 |