Grace DeGennaro was born in Rockville Centre, NY (1956). Her paintings and works on paper have been internationally exhibited at galleries and institutions, including Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME ; Kentler Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; EFA Project Space, New York, NY; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY; Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY; United States Embassy, Doha, Qatar; United States Embassy, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Africa; Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ; The Current, Stowe, VT; The Parsonage Gallery, Searsport, ME and Zero Station Gallery, Portland, ME. Her work is included in various permanent institutional and private collections, including Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY; Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY; Gund Collection, Boston, MA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, County Mayo, Ireland; Wellington Management, Boston, MA and Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA. She is the recipient of grants from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland, Maine Arts Commission and New England Foundation for the Arts and a finalist for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painting and Sculpture Grant. DeGennaro has completed two residencies at The Catwalk Institute, Catskills, NY and will be in residence at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in the fall of 2025. She was a visiting artist at numerous colleges on the east coast, including Bowdoin College, Skidmore College and Colby College. She received an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from Columbia University and a BS in Fine Arts from Skidmore College. DeGennaro lives and works in Yarmouth, Maine.