ARTIST BIO 
Carey Parks Schwartz is an award-winning painter who has exhibited her work throughout the U.S., and in numerous private and corporate collections.  Carey has been profiled in magazine and newspaper articles.  She received an M.A. (M.F.A. program) in Painting from San Jose State University, and dual B.A. degrees in Studio Art and Zoology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.  Growing up in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Carey was influenced by urban and coastal themes in her paintings and continued these themes during a post-graduate move to Paris.  Carey lives today in the New York City area, working in her studio and teaching adult courses in painting, drawing and mixed media at Silvermine School of Art  and  at Norwalk Community College. 

EXHIBITIONS  
Plaxall Gallery, LIC Open,  Long Island City, NY  2018 
Annual Faculty Exhibitions Silvermine Art Center, New Canaan, CT 1999-2018 
Exposure, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY 2016 
12th Annual Juried Exhibition, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY 2016  
24th Annual Juried Competition, Bowery Gallery, New York, NY 2015  
Fresh Pics: Contemporary Art in Connecticut, Ridgefield, CT 2008  
Paper, Eyebuzz Fine Art Gallery, Tarrytown, NY 2007 
58th Annual Art of the Northeast, New Canaan, CT 2007 
Hot, Humid and a Chance of a Thundershower, Scarsdale, NY 2007 
First Place, Sixth Annual Stanley & Vivian Reed Marine Exhibition, Stamford, CT 2006 
Parade Gallery, Warren, VT  2004 
Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988-1991 Sun, Sand and Water, Gallery Yellow, Cross River, NY 2007 
Paintings of France in Summer, Rockwell Gallery, Wilton, CT 2008 

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS 
Charter Communications, Stamford, CT 
Mattos Filho, New York, NY 
Fairfield County Personal Medicine, Stamford, CT 
Beazer Development, San Francisco, CA 
Lockheed Martin, Mountain View, CA 
PRIVATE: United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France, Portugal, Sweden, and Japan

BIBLIOGRAPHY 
“Carey Parks Schwartz:  Gaining Confidence with Acrylics”, American Artist Magazine, Winter 2008, pages 6-19, M. Stephen Doherty 
“The Dart:  Stamford Painter uses light and dark as her muse”, Stamford Advocate, Monday, August 1, 2011, Martin Cassidy 
“Artist at Work”, Greenwich Time & Stamford Advocate, Sunday, May 16, 2007