Shaina McCoy
Shaina McCoy is a Los Angeles-based painter whose work draws from personal photographic archives — family portraits from the 1980s and 1990s — to render scenes of intimacy, play, and belonging. Her figures are deliberately faceless, their identities communicated through texture, posture, clothing, and the quality of touch rather than individual features.
Los Angeles, United States. Painting. Oil and impasto on canvas.
I met Shaina at the Brooklyn Museum and was immediately drawn to her work. What strikes me most is how she centers family dynamics and childhood nostalgia — not through faces, but through texture, posture, and the specific way bodies occupy space together. Her paintings feel like memories that belong to everyone.
Will
