
Keepsakes
4 x 4 in., Acrylic on panel, 2025

Gallery 10
Solo Show July 25 - August 2, 2024
Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, Truro, MA




Art created during the summer of 2024 on-site Provincetown and Truro and in-studio at Castle Hill.

The Outside
2023 B.A. painting thesis at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Steven Daniel Smallen Memorial Fund Grant Recipient, Awarded Hamilton College Art Departmental Honors

Exhibition of The Outside in the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art's Close Quarters, May 2023
Photo by John Bentham

Borrowed time
2022 Spring semester in the Glasgow School of Art Painting and Printmaking Intensive Track

Precipice, 2021

Plein Air
Provincetown and Truro, MA

Plein air watercolor paintings made while backpacking in Colorado and Utah, 2024

Prints



Claire Harpel is an artist and educator based in New York City. She graduated from Hamilton College with her B.A. in History and Art and received honors in both majors. Harpel was a 2025 artist-in-residence at the Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock, NY. She works as a studio and gallery manager at a private school in the Bronx, and her studio is in Harlem.
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Solo Exhibitions
July 2024 - Gallery 10 at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
Group Exhibitions
March 2026 - Every Woman Biennial, Pen and Brush, New York, NY
December 2025 - BoHo Canvas Project, Art Cake, Brooklyn, NY
March 2025 - Printmaking; Etching, Lithography, Woodcut, The Arts Students League
August 2024 - Benefit Auction Show, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
June 2024 - Staff Show, Gallery 10 at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
May 2023 - Close Quarters, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art
June 2022 - Staff Show, Gallery 10 at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill
May 2022 - Bittersweet, Box Hub, Glasgow, Scotland
Apr 2022 - 2nd Year Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art
Dec 2021 - Who The Hell Are We?, Hamilton College
Oct 2021 - Kirkland Summer Associates Show, Hamilton College
Residencies and Awards
2025 - Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild artist-in-residence, Woodstock, NY
Pollock Krasner Grant Recipient
2023 - William Gillespie Prize in Art
2022 - Smallen Creativity Grant Recipient
2021 - Kirkland College Summer Grant Recipient
2021 - Ann Miller Harden Prize Recipient
2020 - Smallen Creativity Grant Recipient
Email: claireharpel@gmail.com
Instagram: @claire.harpel

























































