Photo Credit: Quyn Duong
Shannon Carroll is an artist based in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Her large abstract paintings draw viewers into oceanic fields and charged atmospheric landscapes. Working on raw canvas, she creates luminous color fields that form and dissolve, shaped by gestural marks and chalkboard-like erasures.
Her current series, A Drop in the Ocean, began while she was caring for her late husband, a British comparative literature academic who died of cancer in 2025. His final, illegible scribbles became a visual source for the work. Carroll wrote a feature essay in The Guardian about her experience of caregiving and is writing a memoir.
Carroll's paintings are held in private and corporate collections. Her work was included in SMFA150: Artists for a Changing World, curated by Asya Geisberg at Pace Gallery, and has been covered in Hyperallergic and on TODAY.com. She is a graduate of SMFA at Tufts University. Carroll also works in video and immersive media. She founded Vivid Story, a production company, and has presented work at SXSW, Skoll World Forum, and Harvard University.
Studio visits are welcome in Dumbo, Brooklyn. For inquiries about available works and commissions, contact studio@shannonleecarroll.com.
Press
NBC’s TODAY.com: A wife remembers her husband, who fought to stay alive to finish ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3
Hyperallergic: 10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This April