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. A British writer and former academic, his final, illegible writing became the visual source for the work. Carroll also recently completed a literary memoir co-written with him, weaving his humorous stories of illness and expat life with her account of loss and aftermath.
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 the founder of Vivid Story, a production company and Certified B Corporation, and has presented immersive media work at SXSW, Skoll World Forum, and Harvard University. 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