Nick Ryan Gallery

McConaughy earned her MFA in painting from Columbia University and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has exhibited in galleries including Red Fox Contemporary Art, Garvey-Simon West, The Drawing Center, The Painting Center, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Zürcher Gallery, 490 Atlantic and others. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, Millay Arts Residency, Ucross Foundation Residency and Santa Fe Art Institute Artist’s Residency. Her work has been reviewed in Art Spiel , artcritical , White Hot Magazine , Hamptons Art Hub and other publications. She served on the editorial board and staff of the art journal New Observations for over a decade, has taught at several NYC art colleges and currently is a full professor at Bergen Community College. Originally from Southwestern Pennsylvania, McConaughy has lived and worked in New York for over thirty years.