Claire McConaughy lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has exhibited in galleries including Nick Ryan Gallery, The Drawing Center, 490 Atlantic, The Painting Center, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Zürcher Gallery, Red Fox Contemporary Art, Garvey-Simon West, and others. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, Ucross Foundation Residency, and Santa Fe Art Institute Artist’s Residency. Her work has been reviewed in Art Spiel, artcritical, White Hot Magazine, Hamptons Art Hub, and other publications. She served on the editorial board and staff of the art journal, New Observations, for over a decade, has taught at several New York City art colleges and currently is a full professor at Bergen Community College. Originally from Southwestern Pennsylvania, McConaughy has lived and worked in New York for over thirty years. She earned her MFA in painting from Columbia University and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University.