Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
EDUCATION
2008
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York, NY
2004
Sculpture, Master of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1999
Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
SELECTED SOLO and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Carla Edwards and Sarah Miska, Lyles & King, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2023
Chaise for Ghosts, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020
MDC Windows, Sliver of Cycling Sky, Site Specific
Commissioned Artwork, Vera Institute of Justice, Brooklyn, NY
2018
If Portals Could Raise a Ruin, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY
2017
Carla Edwards, Selected Works, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Soonest Mended, Field Projects, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Blue Dream, SHRINE, Los Angeles, CA
Flags, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2023
One wall a web through which the moment walks, 1/9unosunove, Rome, Italy
Pattern, The Grid, and Other Systems, FIT Art and Design Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
Flagged for Discussion, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR
2022
The Heavy Light Show, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
State of The Art: Record, LSU Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA
2020
State of The Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Museum, AR (catalogue)
2019
Diplomacy, Saint John’s University, Yeh art Gallery, NY
2018
CODED, Boston Center for the Arts, MA
2017
UPROOT, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
In Order of Appearance, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Close at Hand, DC Commission of the Arts, D.C. (catalogue)
Crossing the Field, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Six, Regina Rex, New York, NY
Signaling to ^ the Cipher ^ towards a Segway, Field Projects, New York, NY
2015
EAF Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY. catalogue)
2014
Boundary Battle, Carmen Weidenhoft Gallery, Denver, CO (catalogue)
Rusty Fields, Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY.
Far From Now, Regina Rex, New York, NY
Car Show, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2013
Congregation, 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Leave It To Beavers, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
Do You Think I’m Sexy, Gallery 461, Harlem, NY
2011
Flag Day, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2010
Tide Pool, Sarah Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Half a Self, a Cave Dweller, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY
The Craft, Lehman College Art Gallery. Bronx, NY
Multiplex, Vvork, Munich, Germany
About Me, Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY
Future 86, Future 86, Catskills, NY
2009
Volta5, Scaramouche, Switzerland
A Momentary Fantasy, Scaramouche, New York, NY
2008
Video Studio, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY (catalogue)
Other Certainties, New York Center For Media Arts, New York, NY
Why and Wherefore, online exhibition project, New York, NY
Why and Wherefore, Monkeytown, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition, New York, NY
From Viennese Actionism To The Triumph Of Vince Young, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Beauty Shop, Rush Arts, Miami, FL
Perpetual Art Machine, Scope, Miami, FL
1800 Frames, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Salad Days, Artist Space, New York, NY
Perpetual Art Machine, Cinema-Scope, Hamptons, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
JP Morgan Chase
Vera Institute of Justice, Brooklyn, NY
SELECT PERFORMANCES
2014
Skowhegan Performs, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
Hoodoo Voodoo, Regina Rex, New York, NY
2009
How to Win the Lottery and Hoodoo Voodoo, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2008
Future for Sale, New York Center for Media Arts, New York, NY
Hoodoo Voodoo, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
Hoodoo Voodoo, Artist Space, New York, NY
2003
Performance featuring William Pope L., RISD Auditorium, Providence, RI
ARTIST LECTURES AND VISITING APPOINTMENTS
2021
Rhode Island Council for the Arts, Sculpture Fellowship Award Panel, Providence, RI
2020
Sarah Lawrence College, Critique Week Panel, Bronxville, NY
University of Texas, Visiting Artist Lecture, Austin, TX
2019
Lighthouse Works, Artist Residency Review Panel, NY
Saint John’s University, “Diplomacy”, Panel Discussion with Curator Owen Duffy, NY
2018
Lighthouse Works, Visiting Artist Lecture and Conversation with Daniel Palmer of the Public Art Fund, Fishers Island, NY
DC Commission of the Arts, Panel Discussion with Curator Blair Murphy, District of Columbia
2017
Rhode Island School of Design, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Sculpture Department Providence, RI
Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Program Visiting Critic, Providence, RI
2015
Socrates Sculpture Park Education Program, Visiting Artist, Queens, NY
Art Studio Program Long Island City High School, Visiting Artist, Queens, NY
Redline Arts Center, Artist Lecture and Workshop, Denver, CO
2014
Redline Arts Center, Visiting Artist, Denver, CO
Rusty Fields, Weeksville Heritage Center, Artist Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Lehman College Art Gallery, Visiting Artist Talk, Bronx, NY
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2017
Studio Fellowship, Smack Mellon
2015
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park
2014
Visual Artist Fellowship, National Performance Network
2004
Skowhegan Grant, Rhode Island School of Design
RESIDENCIES
2018
The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2017
Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
2008
Whitney Independent Study Program (ISP), New York, NY
2004
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Eileen Kinsella, “5 Emerging Artists to Watch at Frieze L.A.,” Artnet, February 28
Editors, Memory and Material at Frieze Los Angeles 2024, Frieze, January 23
2023
Giulia Tornasello, Generations and Worlds Compared in Rome, Art Against Labels, Exibart, November 25
Fabio Giagnacovo, One wall a web through which the moment walks, Segno Online, November 1
2022
Shawn Ghassemitari, Night Gallery Presents, The Heavy Light Show, Hypebeast, October 3
2019
Cate McQuaid, “At the BCA’s Mills Gallery, Cracking Some Codes” Boston Globe, January 2
2018
Greg Cook, “Coded At BCA: Art to Recontextualize, Reimagine and Upend Various Forms of Codes”, WONDERLAND, December 16
2017
“Carla Edwards at the Jenkins Johnson Projects”, Wall Street Magazine Art, December 13
Thavma Phillips, “UPROOT: Diversity and Discourse at Smack Mellon”, ARTEFUSE, December 1
Mark Jenkins, “Close at Hand”, The Washington Post, October 27
Rachel Frank, “Interview with Artist Carla Edwards By Rachel Frank”, ARTEFUSE, February 15
2014
Jeremy Brieske, “Weekend Arts Roundup: Artists Comment on Consumerism, ” Colorado Public Radio, December 11
2011
Anne Doran, “Tide Pool, A Look at Artists as An Individual Niche”, Timeout Magazine, January 7
2010
“Multiplex”, VVork, April 25
2008
Will Hudson, “Debauched Zeitgeist, by Carla Edwards”, It’s Nice That, September 9