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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
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