Lily Prince has her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, her M.F.A. from Bard College and attended the Skowhegan residency. Prince has exhibited widely nationally and internationally and was awarded commissions including the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and numerous hotels. Prince was awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in painting in 2020.
Lily was Artist-in-Residence at historic site Olana and was awarded residencies at Draftsmen’s Congress at The New Museum, NY; BAU Institute, Italy; and Galerie Huit, Arles, France. Recently, Prince has been drawing en plein air in France, Italy, Ireland and the American west. She was recently interviewed for ArtSpiel magazine; Vasari 21; Zephyr Maize; and The Art Life on Radio Kingston.
Recent solo shows include: Making Marks, Garage Gallery, Beacon, NY, fall 2023; The Honey and the Thorn, Window on Hudson, Hudson, NY, spring 2023; Both Sides Now at Carrie Chen Gallery in Great Barrington, MA, spring 2022; American Beauty, at Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY, fall 2021; There There, at Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY, 2019; Recurring Waves of Arrival, at Littlejohn Contemporary, NY, NY in 2018. Prince will be having a solo show at Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, TN, fall 2024.
Prince’s work was in Art Taipei, the Taiwan Art Fair, at the Carrie Chen Gallery booth, fall 2023 and was in the Art on Paper Fair with Garvey/Simon, fall 2023. In 2024 Prince’s work was in Landscapes of Transcendence at Susan Eley Gallery, Hudson, NY and will be at the Brattleboro Museum, Vermont, in In Nature’s Grasp. Other recent group exhibitions include Mountains at Collioure, in Vermont, 2022; and Sunrise/Sunset at The Albany Airport Gallery, 2021.
Prince’s work has appeared in the New York Times, NewYork magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and New American Paintings, as well as in 2 books by Richard Klin, among many other publications. She has lectured at Yale, Vassar, Cornell, RISD, SVA, and Pratt. Prince was an associate professor of painting and drawing for many years at a state university in NJ and now gives workshops and also teaches online. When she isn’t traveling to plein air draw, Lily Prince is painting in her 1850’s barn studio in New York’s Hudson Valley or in her new Nashville studio.