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EXHIBITIONS
2026 Were You Always There?, ShowUp, Boston, MA
Everything Everywhere, online exhibition juried by Ivy Jones (Welancora Gallery), Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
Violence Transformed, “Invisibility,” The Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, MA
2025 2025 Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
26th Annual Joan. L Dunfey Open Juried Exhibit, The New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH
Thinking in the Borderlands: Beyond the Human, juried online exhibition, Artsy.com, A Space Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Summer and the Silence, Juniper Rag, juried online exhibition
Grounded, Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH
2024 Future Craft, Gallery 263, national, juried by Kendall Reiss, Cambridge, MA
New England Pollinators, Till Wave Gallery, Watertown, MA
Emerging Artists Show, North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, MA
Bent and Borrowed, Gallery 263, national, juried by Conor Moynihan Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs for the RISD Museum, Cambridge, MA
2024 Salon Show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
Building Backwards: SMFA Senior Thesis Show, The Barbara and Steve Grossman Gallery, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
2023 Across State Lines, Kendall Reiss Gallery, juried by Kendall Reiss, Bristol, RI
Drawing Department Juried Show, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Painting Department Juried Show, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Metal Department Juried Show, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
South Asian Political Action Community Art Show, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Painter’s Society Gallery Night, Tufts University, curated, showed work, Medford, MA
2022 Inside an Artist’s Mind, Plunge Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2021 Printmaking Department Juried Show, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2020 Painting Department Juried Show, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2019 Dual Degree Student Juried Show, Tufts University, Medford, MA
AWARDS
2026 Mass Cultural Council FY26 Grants for Creative Individuals Recipient
2025 Juror’s Choice Award, 2025 Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, Boston City Hall, Boston, MA
Artist Under 30 Award, 26th Annual Joan. L Dunfey Open Juried Exhibit, The New Hampshire Art Association, Portsmouth, NH
CURATION
2026 Were You Always There?, group show co-curated with Enzo Nguyen, ShowUp Inc., Boston, MA
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2025 Payal Thiffault and Michelle May. Juniper Rag. “Summer and the Silence.” 2025. https://www.juniperrag.com/summer-and-the-silence-exhibition/#Marisa-McCarthy
The Portsmouth Herald, “Exhibits, Galleries, Theater and More: Seacoast Arts and Culture News.” February 19, 2025. https://www.seacoastonline.com/story/entertainment/2025/02/19/exhibits-galleries-theater-and- more-seacoast-arts-and-culture-news/79203053007/.
2024 Voices Magazine, poetry and art featured
2023 Drunken Boat International Literary and Art Journal, Issue 25, art featured
Gaze Magazine, Issue 4, art featured
2022 Applejam Zine, art featured
Currents Magazine, poetry featured
Beacon Magazine, (Boston University), cover illustration
Melisma Music Journal, article featured
PRESENTATIONS
2025 Artist Talk: 4/6/25, Aplomb Gallery, Dover, NH. Discussion of my piece I Can Never Have It In
The Way That I Want as part of the Grounded exhibition.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Marisa McCarthy Jewelry
Jeweler and business owner, Andover, MA
October 2025-Present
- Create and sell original jewelry pieces handmade in sterling silver and brass
- Manage website and social media pages, sell jewelry through Shopify
- Utilize metalsmithing skills including soldering, lost wax casting, stone setting
Studio Assistant and Archivist
Assistant to artists Prilla Smith Brackett, Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz, and Beth Galston, Cambridge, MA
May 2025- Present
- Create and organize art archive databases in Air Table, catalogue and document artwork
- Write and edit artist CVs, newsletters, and promotional materials
- Create and implement systems for studio organization
- Facilitate preparation, art display, promotion, and sales for open studios
Project Assistant
MIT Office of the Arts, Cambridge, MA
2024-May 2025
- Assist with administration and coordination of arts programs and events for the MIT Artfinity festival
- Support logistical planning, project-based research, and onsite management of arts events
- Assist with installation of exhibitions and receptions at the Wiesner Student Art Gallery
- Write and publish student art studio class website, manage class registrations, respond to student questions
- Manage and organize data concerning development, event planning
EDUCATION
Tufts University, Medford, MA
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Graduated May 2024, Summa Cum Laude
B.A./B.F.A. Combined Degree Program, Majors: Applied Environmental Studies; Studio Art