Bree Chapin is a figurative painter and visual artist based between New York City and Lisbon. She began her artistic career on the Lower East Side of New York in 2013 as a member of the now-disbanded ConArtist Collective. Her path to art was unconventional—she attended an engineering school with no art program before finding her way to gallery shows, art battles, and painting walls across New York and Portugal.
Her fine artwork has been exhibited regularly for over a decade in New York and beyond, including several solo exhibitions and showcases. Notable solo exhibitions include "ANXIETY DESCENDING" at Lazy Susan Gallery on the Lower East Side in 2019, a show of bright, feverish painting and mixed media described as "pop-neurotic and often apocalyptic in tone," channeling existential dread through aggressive colors and fevered imagery. In 2024, she presented "GIRL DINNER" at Jutta Gallery in New York, a solo exhibition of all-new figurative and still life paintings created in her signature monochromatic neon pink palette. The exhibition featured hazy figures conjured from downtown bars and half-remembered parties, exploring the blurry spaces between risk and revelry. She has spent years creating work in this single color, forsaking all others, drawn to pink's ability to be "at once loud and aggressive yet hazy and dreamy."
In 2023, Bree moved her main practice from East Harlem to Lisbon, Portugal. The move came after some hard years working in tech, while fostering her inner painter. She now balances her time between these two cities, drawing inspiration from both vibrant capitals. Her work has been exhibited regularly for over a decade at group and solo exhibitions in New York and beyond.
Her original artworks are included in several private collections, and large-scale murals are installed in public spaces around the world. In Lisbon, she participated in the "You Are Not Alone" mural project in 2024, painting vibrant urban art meant to bring moments of connection and comfort to passersby. Her work has also appeared in Lisbon's historic Caracol da Graça, a winding staircase in the Graça neighborhood, as part of a street art collective revitalizing the deteriorating landmark. One of her pieces in the Caracol evokes "Lisboa antiga" in a trio of card players.
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