CAROL PAIK is an artist and writer based in New York, splitting her time between New York City and Pound Ridge.

Carol grew up in Sudbury, Massachusetts. She received a BA in Social Studies from Harvard College, and a JD and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. She has been a number of different things in her life, including litigator, stay-at-home mom, essayist, playwright, editor, 3-time NYC marathon-finisher, and hand model (once).

She is interested in many different media, but most enjoys working with repurposed textiles. After years of buying expensive and often toxic materials for her work, her goal now is to create art exclusively out of the unappreciated, overlooked, landfill-destined stuff she finds around her, of which there is a great abundance.

She tries, in her work, to bring together disparate elements in new ways. She prefers to avoid labels and rigid categories, in her art as well as in her life.

PRESS

Featured artist in What She Does (July 6, 2021).
Featured artist in Art for Real People (December 4, 2020).

EXHIBITIONS (selected)

• Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY. “No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor.” (September 20, 2024-January 26, 2025).
• Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY. “Collecting.” (August 28-September 15, 2024).
• Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT. “No Bodies: Clothing as Disruptor.” (February 17-May 27, 2024). 
• Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. “Every Picture Tells a Story.” (February 28–April 4, 2024).
• Judy Black Park, Washington Depot, CT. “Construction/Deconstruction.” (September 6-24, 2023). 
• SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY. “Amalgam Thread.” (June 1-8, 2023).
• The House of Smalls, Chipping Campden, UK. “Scar.” (April 8-22, 2023).
• Ceres Gallery, New York, NY. “Connections.” Juried exhibition (March 28-April 22, 2023).
• Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY. “Tenuous Threads.” Juried exhibition (February 14-March 4, 2023).
• Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. “New Members Show.” (January 12-February 16, 2023).
• Yellow Studio, Cross River, NY. “Life Perceived.” Juried exhibition (January 14-February 9, 2023).
• Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT. “72nd A-ONE.” Juried exhibition (September 3–October 20, 2022). Award of Excellence for “Grasping at the Remnants of Last Night’s Dream.”
• Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farm, Brewster, NY. Juried exhibition (September 2–October 29, 2022).
• JVS Project Space, New York, NY. “Miscreant Matter.” Dual exhibition (April 24–May 22, 2022).
• Blue Door Arts Center, Yonkers, NY. “Fall Into Layers.” Juried exhibition (October 7–30, 2021).
• Petty Cash Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. “Dog Park.” Group exhibition (September 18–October 23, 2021).
• Viridian Artists, New York, NY. “The 31st International Juried Exhibition.” Juried exhibition (September 7–October 2, 2021).
• El Barrio’s Artspace PS 109, New York, NY. “Women Celebrate Women.” Juried exhibition (August 2–25, 2021).
• Scandinavian Collage Museum, Rennebu, Norway. “New York State of Mind.” Group show (Summer, 2021).
• WomensWork, Poughkeepsie, NY. “Folk is Art.” International juried exhibition (July 2–25, 2021).
• Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. “FUN HOUSE: The Art of the Surreal, Fantastic, & Bizarre.” International juried exhibition (May 8–June 19, 2021).
• ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY. “Together apART: Creating During COVID.” Juried exhibition (May 7–August 1, 2021).
• Sculptors Alliance, New York, NY. “Up-Cycling Detritus.” Juried online exhibition (April 15–May 30, 2021).
• New York Public Library, St. Agnes Branch, New York, NY. “Resting Stitch Face NYC.” Solo show (March 2020–December 2021).

EDUCATION

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA. BA cum laude in Social Studies, 1985.
Columbia School of Law, New York, NY. JD 1990.
Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY. MFA in Creative Nonfiction, 2005.