Lacey McKinney lives and works in Central New York. Her work has been exhibited in various solo and duo exhibitions including at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse NY; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; and The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work has been shown at Pen & Brush, New York, NY; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ; Urban Zen, New York, NY; and in Virginia, Washington, and throughout New York State.
Her work can be found in numerous private collections and featured in publications including Huffington Post, ARTnews, Art Zealous, and Cultured Magazine, among others. Awarded artist residencies include The Saltonstall Foundation in Ithaca, NY; McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, NC; Post Contemporary in Troy, NY; and Fremantle Arts Centre in Fremantle, Western Australia.
She was awarded a Light Work Grant in Photography in 2022, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Keep NYS Creating grant in 2020. McKinney graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from The State University of New York at New Paltz in 2012. She is an alumna of The State University of New York at Oswego with a Master of Arts in Studio Art, 2010, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design, 2008.