Lily Prince has her B.F.A. from The Rhode Island School of Design, her M.F.A. from Bard College and studied at Skowhegan. Lily participated in The Bronx Museum's Art-in-the-Marketplace Program and studied abroad on R.I.S.D.’s European Honors Program in Rome. Prince has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally, including in England, Germany, Israel, Poland, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, among many others. In 2020 Prince was awarded the prestigious Pollock-Krasner award in painting.

Prince’s work is now represented by 532 Gallery in Chelsea, NYC where her work is in the group show In the Belly of the Valley, March 2024 as well as in their booth at the Spring Break Art Fair in L.A. From March-June 2024 her work is in a show at The Brattleboro Museum in Vermont. She will be having a solo show at Tinney Contemporary in Nashville, TN fall 2024. In 2023 Prince had two solo shows: The Honey and the Thorn at Windows on Hudson in Hudson, NY, and Making Marks at the Garage Gallery in Beacon, NY. Her work was included in the Garvey/Simon Gallery booth at the Art on Paper Fair in NYC, fall 2023 and at the Art Taipei Fair in Taiwan in the Carrie Chen Gallery booth. In spring 2022 Prince had her solo show Both Sides Now at the Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. and her work was included in the show Mountains at Collioure, curated by Jared Quinton in Vermont. In 2021 Prince had a solo show American Beauty at Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY and was in the Sunrise/Sunset exhibition at the Albany Airport Gallery. In 2019 Lily had a solo show There There curated by Jen Dragon of Cross Contemporary Art at 11 Jane Street Gallery, Saugerties, NY. Prince was awarded an artist residency at Galerie Huit in Arles, France, summer 2019 and was awarded a sabbatical from teaching for 2019-2020. In 2018 Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, NY had Prince’s solo exhibition Recurring Waves of Arrival, included her work in gallery group exhibitions and showed her work in the Art on Paper Fair in NYC.

Lily has been awarded commissions by numerous hotels and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. In addition to her recent residency at Galerie Huit in Arles, France, Prince was Artist-in-Residence at state historic site Olana in 2016. In 2014 Prince was chosen for Draftsmen’s Congress, a residency with international artists at New York’s The New Museum. Lily was one of only two international artists awarded a fully-funded residency at the BAU Institute’s residency in Italy, 2013.

Lily Prince’s work has appeared in the New York Times, New York magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, the Newark Star- Ledger, New American Paintings, San Francisco Weekly, The Bloomsbury Review, Rain Taxi, Jewish Currents Magazine, Chronogram magazine, and the literary journal Crossborder. A catalogue of her drawings The Ten Plagues was published, with poems by David Shapiro, by The Paterson Museum. In 2021 Zephyr and Maize published her work: American Beauty with Lily Prince and Richard Klin, edited by Varia Serova and also Studio Visit with Lily Prince by Varia Serova. Lily was interviewed for ArtSpiel,in 2020 by Etty Yaniv and also by Ann Landi in Vasari21. Prince has lectured widely, including at Yale, Vassar, Cornell, RISD’s European Honors Program, Pratt and at the Artists Talk on Art series. Lily was interviewed on WVKR radio for their cultural currents show as well as on WBAI and WAMC, among others. Her book of portraits with writer Richard Klin’s profiles, Something To Say: Thoughts on Art and Politics in America, was published by Leapfrog Press, 2011. Prince was commissioned to create 100 illustrations for Klin’s book Abstract Expressionism For Beginners, published by For Beginners Books, 2016. Lily Prince lives in NY and after 30 years as an associate professor she now teaches online and offers in-person workshops.

Critic, poet and art historian David Shapiro has written about Prince's work in his essay for the catalogue Paper Point Blank: