Photo Credit: Quyn Duong
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.
Her current series, A Drop in the Ocean, emerged from caring for her husband until his death from cancer in 2025. He was a British writer and former academic, and his final, illegible scribbles became the visual source for the work. Carroll wrote a feature essay in The Guardian and is working on a memoir about him.
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 is the founder of Vivid Story, a production company and Certified B Corporation, and has presented work at SXSW, Skoll World Forum, and Harvard 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