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EXHIBITION RECORD

2026 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

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

Marisa Pinto McCarthy

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