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Shannon Carroll is an artist based in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Her large abstract paintings explore memory, presence, and loss.
Working on raw canvas with acrylic and pigment sticks, she creates luminous color fields, urgent gestural marks, and chalkboard-like erasures. Her paintings invite viewers into charged landscapes that simultaneously form and dissolve. Carroll began this body of work after her husband’s death from cancer in 2025. She recently completed a literary memoir in collaboration with him, an English humorist and former academic. The book weaves his wry stories of illness and expat life with her account of loss and aftermath.
Carroll's paintings are held in private and corporate collections. She has exhibited in New York and internationally, and has been featured on TODAY.com and Hyperallergic. Her work will be included in SMFA150: Artists for a Changing World at Pace Gallery in New York, April 2026. She is a graduate of SMFA at Tufts University.
Contact: studio@shannonleecarroll.com
Studio location: Dumbo, Brooklyn
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