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.
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