Carrie-Ann Bracco was born on Long Island, NY.  She received her B.A. from Columbia University, a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the New York Academy of Art and a Masters of Science in Sustainability Management, also from Columbia University.  She spent several years living abroad in Italy, England and Bolivia. She now resides in Brooklyn, NY.  

The majority of Carrie's art is focused on our human relationship to our natural environment.  Paintings and drawings have been inspired by residencies in the jungle of Southern Peru, a sailing expedition in the Arctic Circle, glacier trekking in Patagonia and alpine climbing with the American Climber Science Program in the Peruvian Andes.  The paintings from these expeditions address the ethereal quality of these mythic and fragile landscapes.  They also contemplate our explorations into the unknown and our tenuous co-existence with the natural environment.

Other artworks contemplate more accessible but not-quite-mundane scenes closer to home, such as the reflective tide pools at Davis Park in Fire Island, NY, and the shimmering effect of snow and streetlights in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Carrie’s work has been included in exhibits at the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Arts Club, Flowers Gallery and Mark Miller Gallery.  In 2011, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.  In 2014, her artwork was included in The Figure, edited by Margaret McCann and published by Skira/Rizzoli Press.