BIO

Rebecca Carter’s groundless thread drawing, video installation and photo-based projects have been exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Art, the Nasher Sculpture Center, the Dallas Contemporary, the exterior walls of the Dallas Omni Hotel, Road Agent Gallery, The Reading Room, 500X, the Cheongju International Craft Biennale, The New York Center for Book Arts and Arts Religare in India. Her video installation “No Place Like Home” was included in Gil Perry’s Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art from Reaktion Books. She lives and works in Dallas, TX where she taught at various Universities for fifteen years. She earned an M.F.A. and B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as well as a B.A. in Studio/Art History and Women’s Studies from Oberlin College.

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Exhibitions (*solo)

2015  *Holly Johnson Gallery, “A Thread House Has Whiskers.” Dallas, TX
2014  La Napoule Art Foundation, Do You See What I See?, La Napoule, France
2014  *RE:Gallery, “Sleep Architecture and the Dream House,” Dallas, TX
2014  The Reading Room, “Never to be yourself and yet always,” Dallas, TX
2013  MAP, Signage Works, Dallas, TX
2013  Texas Biennial, Blue Star Art, San Antonio, TX
2013  *Hendrix College, Conway, AK
2013  Brand 10, Moving Pictures, Fort Worth, TX
2013  (Wo)Manorial, Susan/Elizabeth, online, www.womanorial.com
2013  Re:Gallery, The Ordinary and the Everyday, Dallas, TX
2012  Dallas Museum of Art, The Eyeballs From Outerspace, Dallas, TX
2012  Nasher Sculpture Center, Fountainhead, Dallas, TX
2012  The Center for the Book, Tell Me How You Really Feel, New York, NY
2012  The Mobile Archive, with the Israeli Center for Digital Art, Lieder of the Pact, traveling
2012  Catskill Film and Video Festival, Lieder of the Pact, Catskill, NY
2012  The Art Foundation, Fountainhead, Dallas, TX
2012  UTD Gallery, Monstrous Coupling, curated by Andy Amato, Dallas, TX
2012  Brand 10, “Once and Again: Rebecca Carter, Teresa Rafidi, and Linda Ridgeway,” Fort Worth, TX
2012  Omni Hotel Building, Expanded Cinema, Dallas, TX
2011  The Free Museum of Dallas, Things Held But Never Understood, Dallas, TX
2011  *The Reading Room, Re: Reading the Love Letter, Dallas, TX
2011  *500X Gallery, Where is the Stud?, Dallas, TX
2011  ArtHouse TX, Lieder of the Pack, Texas Biennial Special Screening, Austin, TX
2011  Suite Art Fair, Dallas, TX
2011  The Marketing Arm, No Place Like Home, Dallas, TX
2011  Moudy Art Gallery, Art in the Metroplex, juror Toby  Kamps, Fort Worth, TX
2010  ArtsReligare, The Transforming State, New Delhi, India
2010  500X Gallery, FeedbackFeedbackLoopLoop (with Andrea Goldman), Dallas, TX
2010  Eastfield College, “Temporary Occupants,” Mesquite, TX
2010  *Eastfield College, Friendliness Towards all Things…, Mesquite, TX
2010  500X Gallery, The Space Between You and Me, Dallas, TX
2009  Cheongju International Craft Biennale Competition, Peoples Republic of South Korea
2009  Irvine Valley College, “drawn/draft/depict,” Irvine, CA
2009  Road Agent Gallery, “Far from the Madding Crowd,” Dallas, TX
2009   The Dallas Contemporary, “Viewfinder: New Work from  Texas,” Dallas, TX
2009  The M.A.C., S.M.U. Faculty Exhibition, Dallas, TX
2009  *500X Gallery, The Love Letter, Dallas, TX
2009  500X Galley, fremder_fremder, Dallas TX (with Emily Carter)
2009  University of Alabama, “Rocket City National,” Huntsville, AL
2008  Fotofest, My Own Backyard, Houston, TX and Daimler Headquarters,  Fort Worth, TX
2008  *500X, The Supposed Object,  Dallas, TX
2008  The Skydive, The Eyeglasses and the Eyeballs , Houston, TX
2008  UTD Gallery, Space is a Time Machine, Dallas, TX
2008  500X, Inaccessible Landscapes, Dallas, TX (with Thomas Feulmer)
2008  Tango to the Moon, Redmill Gallery, Johnson, VT (with Thu Kim Vu
2007  Corcoran Museum, De/(con)struction Site I, Washington, DC (Colorfield Re:mix, screening)
2007  Danny Simmons Gallery, Nest, Brooklyn, NY
2007  Pollock Gallery, Build Your Dream, Dallas, TX

Publications

2015    Habel, Holly. “Two x Two brings in 8.6 million.” Dallas Morning News, Oct. 28, 2015
2015    Haber, Holly. “Why Dallas Is on the International Art Map.” D Magazine, February
2014    Bentley, Alex. “Dallas artists spark dialogues about race with citywide billboard project” Culturemap Dallas. Nov. 16, 2014
2014    Perry, Gill. Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art. London: Reaktion Books
2014    Englestad, Janeil. MAP 2013 Catalogue. Make Art With Purpose: Dallas, TX
2014    Pon, Lisa, “Building, Dwelling, Dreaming.” Sleep Architecture and the Dream House exh. catalog
2014    Amato, Andy, “Rebecca Carter: Sleep Architecture and the Dream House.” Glasstire.com
2014    Englestad, Janeil, “Rebecca Carter: Sleep Architecture and the Dream House.” Eutopia Contemporary Art Reviews, http://eutopia.us/rebecca-carter/
2013  Perry, Gill. Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art. London: Reaktion Books
2013  Joseph_Lester, Jasper and Corris, Michael ed. The Dallas Pavillion. Free Museum of Dallas
2012  Campos, Alexander. Tell me How You Really Feel, Exhibition Catalog, The
Center for Book Arts: New York, NY
2012  Davidow, Joan, “KERA Commentary: Four Local Galleries Achieve Greatness
without Grandeur” ArtandSeek.net
2012  Simik, Peter. “This Week’s Visual Art,” DMagazine FrontRow
2012  Weeks, Jerome, “World’s Biggest TV Set?” WKXT Music Blog
2011  Amato, Andy. “Rebecca Carter, The Reading Room”, Arts+Culture, Dec. 2011
2011  Meehan, Margaret. “Flotsam and FeedbackFeedbackLoopLoop at 500X”, Glasstire.com Jan 23
2011  Simik, Lucia. “April Gallery Picks.” Tinydallas.com
2010  Cabal, Paola. The Transforming State, Exhibition Catalogue essay
2010  Meehan, Margaret. “Alternative to the Alternatives.” Glasstire.com, Aug. 2010
2010  Lakshmi, Rama. “Artists deconstruct city’s frenzied preparations for
Commonwealth Games.” Washington Post. Sunday, August 1, 2010
2010  “Where text breaks down to gesture and gesture reassembles to form drawing:
Interview with Rebecca Carter by Sarah Nesbit.” www.thepapercrane.org
2010  Fotofest 2010: Participating Spaces, Catalogue
2009   Art This Week, video podcast, interview with Anne Lawrence. Dec. 2009
2008  Puleo, Risa. “Viewfinder: New Images from Texas Artists.” Spot. Houston
Center for Photography, Fall/Winter
2008  Muyumba, Walton. “Q&A: Rebecca Carter,” Art and Seek Blog, KERA
2008  Britt, Douglass, “The View from Here: New Photo Exhibit” Houston Chronicle
2007  Terranova, Charissa. “Becoming Animal,” Charissa Terranova, Glasstire.com
2005  UR Magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 5, May 19 June 15
2005  Kuntz, Katrina. “Drawn to Drawing,” FNews Magazine
2005  “Drawn to Drawing curatorial statement,” exhibition brochure, Betty Rymer Gallery
2005  Ferguson, Sara & Holmes, Gretchen. “Gimme Some of That: Appropriating
Feminist Strategies” Exhibition catalogue

Grants/Fellowships/Prizes

2009  Cheongju International Craft Competition Merritt Prize and Travel Award
2008  Meadows Summer Fellowship
2007  Meadows School of Art Research/Travel Grant
2006  Southern Methodist University Research Council Grant
2006  Meadows School of Art Research/Travel Grant
1993  Mellon Grant

Residencies

2012  La Napoule, France
2010  The WhyNot Place, New Delhi, India
2008  Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Catwalk, Catskill, NY

Education

2005  MFA Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2003  BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1993  BA Studio/Art History & Women’s Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

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