Grace Hager

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 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Caldbeck Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME, Wassaic Project, MEPAINTSME, OVERLAP Gallery, CT State Gateway Community College, The Parsonage, and George Marshall Store Gallery, among others. 

She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards including a CERF+ Get Ready Grant, a MAC Springboard Grant, a partial James Bernard Haggarty Scholarship, a grant from the Belvedere Fund, and a project grant from the Puffin Foundation. She is the recipient of a Fellowship in Painting from Vermont Studio Center and has been an artist-in-residence at Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency, Wassaic Project, and Maine College of Art & Design, among others. She is a part of the 2025 Canopy Cohort under the mentorship of Rose Nestler.

She currently lives and works in Southern Maine.

Alongside her own work in the studio, Grace assists her former faculty and mentor, Gail Spaien, in her studio.