CURRICULUM VITAE
Carter Potter
Born Los Angeles, California, 1961. Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
EDUCATION
1990
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, California
1987
BA, University of California, Los Angeles, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
PICTURE SNATCHER, as-is.la, Los Angeles, California. link
2024
Couch Triptych 1990–2024, as-is.la, Los Angeles, California
2023
New Leaders, Alto Beta, Altadena, California
2022
FYC, Rocket Gallery, London, England
2021
Torture Chamber, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, California
2010
Backpainting, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
2004
We Cure Everything, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2003
Paint By Numbers, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Untitled Solo, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
2002
Test Results, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
New Paintings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2001
Untitled Solo, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Three T-Rex’s & a Rolling Stone + Sunset Stript, Rocket Gallery, London, England
1999
Untitled Solo, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1998
Hazy Leaders, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1997
Untitled Solo, Galerie H. S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria
1995
Untitled Solo, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1994
Frankly, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, California
Potter’s Field, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Untitled Solo, Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, New York
1993
Momentary Contemporary, curated by Brady Westwater, Los Angeles, California
Spacemaker, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
1991
Work-Pix, Leader & Fill, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Film Paintings, The Guest Room, Los Angeles, California
1990
C-Ouch Pain-Tings, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Bash, MFA Thesis, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Being There, Three Day Weekend Event at Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2025
Ongoing Compilation, Rocket Gallery, London, England
HELLO, HELLO, HELLO, curated by Michelle Grabner, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon
TV EYE, presented by Alto Beta Gallery, Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank, California
2024
Plastic Passion Redux, curated by Michelle Plochere, Los Angeles, California
2023
SEXY XMAS VII, The Lodge, Los Angeles, California
FOUND, NOT LOST, Vesta, in the Ice Fishing Shanty Gallery, West Glover, Vermont and Los Angeles, California
2021
RETURN OF THE DRAGONS, Chinatown 1998–2008, Blossom Market, Los Angeles, California
LIGHT UNLOCKED, Rocket Gallery, London, England
2016
TRI (...ed) — Revisiting TRI Gallery, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2015
Transcendent Abstraction in Painting: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, California
2011
The Haunted Word, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2008
Truthiness: Photography As Sculpture, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
Some Paintings: LA Weekly Annual Biennial, organized by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2007
Beauty is Embarrassing, Western Project, Los Angeles, California
2005
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (catalogue)
2003
Film Revival: Reinvigorating Abstraction in Painting and Drawing, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York (brochure)
Transparent, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Color, Material, and Method, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Gridlock, West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, California
2002
Attack/Attraction, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001
The B Sides, Newspace, Los Angeles, California
New Work: L.A. Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Counting Colour, Rocket Gallery, London, England
2000
FRAME: Uta Barth, Duncan Higgins, Carter Potter, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England (catalogue)
The L.A. Scene, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Kevin Appel, Carter Potter, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
my kid could do that, Ron Herman Fred Segal, Los Angeles, California
A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
1999
Urban Life, Galerie H. S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria
The Flower Show, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnel, Iowa
Shift, ACME., Los Angeles, California
Gridlocked, Rocket Gallery, London, England
POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1998
Art at Michael’s, Michael’s, Santa Monica, California
Translucent, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, California
L.A. Current: Looking at the Light, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, UCLA, California
Picture Show: Photo-Based and Video Art from Los Angeles, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1997
In Touch With…, Galerie + Edition Renate Schröder, Köln, Germany
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (catalogue)
Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1996
True Bliss, LACE, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
Found Footage, Klemens Gasser und Tanja Grunert, Köln, Germany (catalogue)
Getting Physical: New Abstract Painting, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (brochure)
Private TV, Public Living Rooms, L.A. Freewaves Festival, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California
Inside: The Work of Saint Clair Cemin, Joel Otterson, and Others, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California (catalogue)
L.C. Armstrong, Greg Bogin, John M. Miller, Carter Potter, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1995
Painting Outside Painting: 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California
An Accumulation of Supple Solids…, Littlejohn Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Greatest Hits, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Group Show, Casey Kaplan, New York, New York
International Summer Project 1995, Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium
Fabrication: Formal, Found and Funky, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California (essay)
Time + Space, Food House, Santa Monica, California
1994
Balls, Newspace, Los Angeles, California
Group Show, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Screening Space, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Serial, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Clarity, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Page 4, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, New York
1993
Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, Nevada
Indisposable, Steve Hurd Fine Art, Mondo Lot, Santa Monica, California
Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Heaven Missing — young art l.a., Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, New York
Salad Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Artificial Paradises, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Habitations, InterArt Center, New York, New York (catalogue)
Los Angeles: Not Paintings?, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California; traveled to University of North Texas, Denton, Texas (catalogue)
New American Talent: The Ninth Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Technocolor, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1992
A Three Ring Circus, TRI Gallery at FAR Bazaar, Los Angeles, California
Coming Unraveled, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
Abstraction for the Information Age, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, California
Painting Project, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, New York
Abstract Painting, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California
I to Eye II, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Working Stiffs, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Summer Invitational, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1991
The Wiled, Wild West Show, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
1990
Corporealities, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Fresh & Hot, California State University Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Absentbury Show, New Bliss Annex, Pasadena, California
1989
Against Nature, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins, LACE, Los Angeles, California
SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
The Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (mumok), Vienna, Austria
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, California
University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
Harvey, Doug. “Welcome Back Potter,” Less Art, August 19 (illustrated). link
2008
Knight, Christopher. “It’s alive! With wit, diversity,” Los Angeles Times, January 25, E26 (illustration). link
2004
Lawrence, Sidney. “Carter Potter at Numark,” Art in America, Vol. 92, No. 8 (September): 138 (illustrated).
Green, Tyler. “Carter Potter: We Cure Everything,” artnet.com (illustrated). link
Dixon, Glenn. “Stop Action,” Washington City Paper, February 6 (illustrated). link
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Light ‘Places’ and artistic ‘Cure’,” The Washington Times, January 31, B1–B2 (illustrated). link
Dawson, Jessica. “Surreal Cityscapes, and ‘Paintings’ That Aren’t,” The Washington Post, January 29 (illustrated). link
2003
Howell, George. “Washington, D.C.,” Art Papers, Reviews/Mid-Atlantic, Vol. 27, No. 6, Nov/Dec: 47 (illustrated).
Baron, Reuben M. and Joan Boykoff Baron. “Recycling the Residues of Film,” Film Revival: Reinvigorating Abstraction in Painting and Drawing. Long Island City: Dorsky Gallery (illustrated).
Dawson, Jessica. “Something Light For the Summer?,” The Washington Post, July 31 (illustrated). link
O’Sullivan, Michael. “Steinhilber Clearly Propels ‘Transparent’,” The Washington Post, July 18 (illustrated). link
Douglas, Sarah. “Carter Potter: new film paintings,” The Art Newspaper, No. 138, July–August: 5 (illustrated).
“Art: Cinematic,” The New York Sun, June 25: 17 (illustrated).
Gleason, Mat. “art angelenos,” Modern Painters, Spring: 70–75 (illustrated).
2002
Ollman, Leah. “Potter’s Assemblages: A Film of Meaning,” Los Angeles Times, September 27: F24 (illustrated).
2001
Newhall, Edith. “Movie Frames,” New York Magazine, May 21: 102 (illustrated).
2000
Clark, Robert, Jeanine Griffin, and Jo Anne Lee. Frame, Site Gallery, Sheffield (exhibition catalogue).
Duncan, Michael. “Carter Potter at Rocket,” Art in America, September: 160.
Daly, Catherine. “Kevin Appel and Carter Potter,” The Sunday Times, Dublin, April 16.
Hartigan, Marianne. “From Memphis to ‘Alice in Wonderland’,” The Sunday Tribune, Dublin, April 16.
“Cool Colorists,” dside magazine, Issue 54, April.
Three T-Rex’s & A Rolling Stone + Sunset Stript, Rocket Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue).
1999
Marriner, Robin. “LA Revisited,” Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 25: 23–27.
1998
Tavish, Mac. “The A List: Pick of the Week of July 22–29,” City Pages, July 22: 56.
Haines, Gordon. “Carter Potter at Angles,” X-Tra, Vol. 1, No. 5, Spring/Summer: 13–14.
Rockwell, Steve. “Carter Potter at Angles,” d’Art International No. 2, April–June: 33.
Duncan, Michael. “Buzz Art Buys,” Buzz, June: 48.
Tumlir, Jan. “Carter Potter, Angles Gallery,” frieze, May: 85. link
1997
Iannaccone, Carmine. “Surf’s Up!: A New Generation of Artists Rides the Wave of the City’s Strange Blend of Irreverence, Sensuality and Pop,” The Art Newspaper, December: 34.
Stuckey, Jay Gould. “Bastards of Modernity: Angles Gallery,” Zingmagazine, December: 268–269. link
H.-S., M. “Aus den Galerien: Steinek, Wien,” Handelsblatt, November 7–8.
“Galerie Steinek,” Die Presse, November 7.
Glenn, John. “Film and Function: Carter Potter’s Custom Canvasses Challenge the General Conception of Painting at the Steinek Galerie,” Vienna Reporter, November.
“Carter Potter,” Falter, October 24–30: 43.
“Carter Potter’s Recycled Art,” Austria Today, October 24–30: 145.
Christoph, Horst. “Recycling Hollywood,” Profile, October 20: 43.
“Austellung Wien: ‘Found Footage’,” Der Standard, October 14.
“Carter Potter,” Vernissage, October 8: 17.
DiMichele, David. “‘Bastards of Modernity’ at Angles Gallery,” Artweek, April 28.4: 22–23.
Hainley, Bruce. “Bastards of Modernity: Angles Gallery,” Artforum, March: 98–99.
Tumlir, Jan. “On Young Art in L.A.,” Art Muscle, March: 7–9.
Kandel, Susan. “Art Reviews: Modernist Montage,” Los Angeles Times, February 7: F16, F30.
Young, Paul. “Bastards of Modernity,” Buzz Weekly, February 14–20: 19.
1996
Thorson, Alice. “Abstraction is Back: But New Forms Explore Ideas in Physical Ways,” The Kansas City Star, October 27: J1, J3.
Pagel, David. Getting Physical: New American Abstraction, Kansas City: Johnson County Community College (exhibition catalogue).
Goodman, Jonathan. “Painting Outside Painting: Corcoran Gallery of Art,” Artnews, April: 138.
Risatti, Howard. “Painting Outside Painting: Corcoran Gallery of Art,” Artforum, April: 105–106.
Miles, Christopher. “City of Now,” Lingo, Spring: 55–62.
Ostrow, Saul. “History is Now: Painting Outside Painting, the Corcoran Gallery’s 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting,” New Art Examiner, March: 29–33.
Plagens, Peter. “Peeling Paint,” Newsweek, January 15: 66.
Smith, Roberta. “Testing Limits at the Corcoran,” The New York Times, The Arts, January 6: 11, 13.
Wallis, Stephen. “Sketchbook: Shows Not to Miss,” Art & Antiques, January.
1995
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna. “Painting Beyond Traditional Limits,” The Washington Times, December 24.
Lewis, Jo Ann. “Painting Outside the Lines,” The Washington Post, December 23: B1, B5.
Greene, David A. “Hollywood Uber Alles: Three Artists Take on the Industry,” Los Angeles Reader, December 21–27: 18, 20, 22.
Kandel, Susan. “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times, December 14: F7.
Wilson, William. “Eccentric Glimpse at Norton Collection,” Los Angeles Times, December 12: F12.
Curtis, Cathy. “Weaving New Life Into Everyday Objects,” Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, April 4: Section F.
Duncan, Michael. “Fabrication: Formal, Found and Funky,” Orange: Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University (essay accompanying exhibition).
1994
Duncan, Michael. “L.A. Rising,” Art in America, December: 72–82.
Tumlir, Jan. “Mass-Production: The Work of Sculpture,” Artweek, December: 12–13.
Greene, David A. “Field of Sofas,” Los Angeles Reader, August 19: 25.
Pagel, David. “Sofa Showroom,” Los Angeles Times, August 11: F4.
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1993
Barrie, Lita. “A Forest of Toys,” Visions, Winter.
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Pagel, David. “Pieces of Weight,” Los Angeles Times, July 22.
Urban, Hope. “Alluring Art on La Brea,” Los Angeles Reader, June 25.
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1990
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1989
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