Grace Hager is an interdisciplinary painter and ceramic sculptor. Her work locates the natural world as a realm of possibility: a source of transformative encounters that generate awe, revealing the magical within the observable world.
She received her Master of Fine Arts in 2023 and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with a Minor in Art History in 2015 both from Maine College of Art & Design. Grace has exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME; Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; MEPAINTSME; CT State Gateway Community College, New Haven, CT; Pamplemousse Gallery, Richmond, VA; The Parsonage, Searsport, ME; George Marshall Store Gallery, York, ME; and Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston, MA, among others.
Grace has been an artist-in-residence at the Wassaic Project, Directangle Press, and Running With Scissors. She is currently the 2024/2025 Ceramic Alumni Resident at Maine College of Art & Design and is the recipient of an upcoming Fellowship in Painting at Vermont Studio Center. She was also recently awarded a project grant from the Puffin Foundation.
She comes from a family of scientists which has influenced her love of the natural world and fascination with how things work. Her best ideas come to her while walking along the beach or while driving country roads. She currently lives and works in Portland, Maine.
Alongside her own work in the studio, Grace currently assists her former faculty and mentor, Gail Spaien, in her studio.