Gwyneth Scally was born and raised in Washington, D.C, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Part Italian-American and part English-Irish, the artist’s work is deeply informed by the places of her childhood, referencing the neo-classical architecture of Washington DC, the symbolic darkness of Italian baroque art, and the romantic English countryside where her father’s family lives.  Scally received her MFA from the University of Arizona, and worked as an artist in the American West for several years, interspersing her work with travel to Latin America, Europe, Northern Africa, New York, Los Angeles, China, Newfoundland and the Black Sea of Bulgaria.  Time spent in the great wildernesses of the American west cultivated an interest in nature and ecological issues; Scally explores issues of displacement, nostalgia, and the Sublime, while suggesting deeper issues of an environmental order overturned. Current work addresses the legacies of Classicism and Romanticism in our concepts of nature and national identity.  

Scally has received numerous fellowships, scholarships and awards, and has participated in up to eighty exhibitions internationally.  She has attended several artists’ residencies, including The Residency at Vyt in the Hudson River Valley, the Digital Fabrication Resdiency in Easton, Maryland, the Process-Space Festival Artists Residency in Balchik, Bulgaria, the Pouch Cove Foundation Artists’ Residency in Newfoundland, Canada, and the Red Gate Gallery of Beijing Visual Artists’ Residency in Beijing, China.  Scally is also an academic; she has taught college classes in drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture and art history, and has delivered papers on the relationship between nature and visual culture at conferences and residencies.