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Coralys Carter is a multidisciplinary weaver living and working in Southern California. Currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, Carter is furthering her exploration into the concept of bodies rooted in spaces and places rooted in bodies

Obsessed with locating where memory lives, Coralys layers craft processes such as weaving, printmaking, and sculptural techniques to create vessels for reflection – the works themselves existing between a space of being “done” and coming undone. 

Recent residencies and fellowships include the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop’s SIP Fellowship, Textile Art Center’s WIP Residency, and Processing Foundation’s Processing Fellowship.
Coralys Carter is a multidisciplinary weaver living and working in Southern California. Currently pursuing an MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego, Carter is furthering her exploration into the concept of bodies rooted in spaces and places rooted in bodies.

Obsessed with locating where memory lives, Coralys layers craft processes such as weaving, printmaking, and sculptural techniques to create vessels for reflection – the works themselves existing between a space of being “done” and coming


b. 1996 Carbondale, IL

Education

2025       MFA University of California, San Diego, CA
2019       Ancient Song Doula Services, Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY 
2018       BA Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO 
               Studio Art Major with an Academic focus in Race, Ethnicity, & Migrations Studies
2016       Carleton College, Foumban & Buea, Cameroon 
               Arts and Culture program in West Africa

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions


2024       if you weight a little while it will all make sense, UCSD Performance Space, San Diego, CA
2023       notes on tension, UCSD Commons Gallery, San Diego, CA
2022       the threaded and the threader, UCSD Main Gallery, San Diego, CA
2020       next life, Dreaming, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
2018       tender headed: a priori forms of intuition, Packard Hall, Colorado Springs, CO
2016       fiber & clay, dual exhibition, Beau, Cameroon                

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025       Forthcoming, Mandeville Gallery, San Diego, CA
2024       INLET, OUTLET, Main Gallery, San Diego, CA
2023       Fellows Exhibition, 20|20 Gallery, New York, NY
2017       joan’s day off, 802, Colorado Springs, CO
2016       Sloppy Joans, Weber St, Colorado Springs, CO
2016       Night of Black Arts, Bemis Great Hall, Colorado Springs, CO

Curatorial

2024       a handful of fog, Elliot Hundley Studio, Los Angeles, CA
               INLET, OUTLET, Main Gallery, San Diego, CA

Performances

2022       the Threaded and the threader, UCSD Main Gallery, San Diego, CA 
2018       Dansix: Emerge, Kathryn Mohrman Theatre, Colorado Springs 
2017       Reclaiming Rosas,  Cornerstone Arts Center, Colorado Springs 
2015       Relations the Play, Taylor Theatre, Colorado Springs

Residencies, Awards and Grants

2024       BSP grant, Black Studies Project UCSD, San Diego CA
2022       Processing Fellowship, Processing Foundation
               Work in Progress Residency, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (postponed from 2020) 
               SIP Fellowship, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Manhattan, NY
2021       Laboratory Residency, Spokane Interactive Arts, Tacoma, WA 
2020       Pancake House Residency, Pancake House, Minneapolis, MN 
               Nobody’s Fashion Week, Flux Factory, Queens, NY
               FCA Emergency Grant
2018       Venture Grant, Colorado College, Colorado Springs
               Resilience and Reclamation in Cameroonian Textile, travel to study cloth as an alternative historical text
2017       Anderson Ranch Study Grant, Aspen, CO 

Speaking Engagements
 

2020       Shedding, a movement workshop, series with Flux Factory, Queens, NY 
               next life, Dreaming: a conversation at Flux Factory, w/ Brittany J Camacho, Queens, NY 
               artist talk and open studio, Textile Arts Center, Manhattan, NY 

Publications

2021       Nobody’s Fashion Week Exhibition Catalogue 
               Creatures, bodies issue
2019       Good Trouble: Celebrate the Culture of Resistance | Fast Fashion/Slow Art
2018       terra incognita “a feminist response to the outdoor industry”
               Abram, Nia: “Wakanda Forever: Anticolonialism as Sustainable Technology”, terra incognita: A Feminist            
               Response to the Outdoor Industry
2015 -     Cipher Magazine 
2018       Leviathan 
               Harlot