Carmella Gullo was born in Jamestown, New York. For college, she moved to New York City, and graduated from Pratt Institute with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree in Painting. She has lived and worked in Brooklyn ever since and has been continuously showing her paintings, drawings, and sculptures in group exhibitions throughout the U.S. She has shown at NYU Washington Square East Galleries, Exit Art, Ceres Gallery, Islip Art Museum, BRIC, Ethan Cohen Kunsthalle, Sideshow Gallery, Limner Gallery, New York Open Center, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, the New Museum, Chautauqua Institute, Center for Brooklyn History, and The New York Public Library. Carmella’s paintings and drawings have graced the cover of compact disc packaging for America’s premier new music label, and drawing used for the marketing of Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar at Carnegie Hall. At Millay Arts, she received the Wallace Foundation/Reader’s Digest Fellowship. In 2017 she was an honorarium/finalist for the Red Hook Climate Change Public Art Project, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. She is a teaching artist and helped start the non profit RHAP Red Hook Art Project in her Brooklyn neighborhood. She taught sculpture and drawing at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, and the Creative Center Arts for Healing at University Settlement. Carmella’s art practice and love of nature has led her to many of the great museums of the world, archeological sites, landscapes and rock formations worldwide. Her travels, which greatly inform her work has led her to over five continents.