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Born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1970, Carter is an
internationally known painter, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker
based in New York.
Carter studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art, earning a
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992. He then studied at the
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1994, and the
University of California, Davis, earning an MFA degree in 1997.
His works are included in significant collections around the world
and have been exhibited internationally including the Museum of
Modern Art, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the
Tate Modern, London, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the USA
Today and Abstract America exhibitions, at the Saatchi Gallery in
London, the Royal Academy, London and the Museion in Bolzano,
Italy, Jack Hanley Gallery San Francisco, HOTEL Gallery in London,
Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris, Paule Anglim in San Francisco, Salon
94 in NYC. A comprehensive catalogue of Carter's work edited by
Georg Kargl was published in 2008 titled, An Arm with Hair, (The
Vienna Catalogue 1973).
Carter's first feature film, Erased James Franco was released in
2008. It stars the American actor, James Franco in a performance
that has him reenact every film and television appearance from his
entire career. The film also features Franco playing the part of
Julianne Moore as her character in the film Safe directed by Todd
Haynes and as Rock Hudson in the 1966 film, Seconds.
Franco's appearances as a version of 'himself' on the daytime soap
opera, General Hospital was inspired by Carter and can be seen as
another facet or an extension of the work that began with the film,
Erased James Franco. Erased was screened at major museums around
the world including; Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern,
London, Cleveland Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Castro Theater, San Francisco,
Georg Kargl, Vienna, Yvon Lambert, Paris, Weatherspoon Museum of
Art, Greensboro, NC, and Brisbane Australia.
Carter wrote and directed the feature film, Maladies, released in
2013 - starring Catherine Keener, David Strathairn and James
Franco. Maladies had it’s world premiere in 2013 at the Berlinale
International Film Festival and it’s US premiere at the SXSW film
festival in Austin and is being released nationwide in March of
2014 by Tribeca Films.
A new exhibition of Carter’s paintings will be on display at Lisa
Cooley Gallery in New York City in March 2014 and several of his
Polaroid works can be seen in the traveling exhibition, The
Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
