Carrie Marill
B. 1976
Lives and works in San Diego, CA
EDUCATION
2004 - Master of Fine Art, Painting and Drawing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2002 - Bachelor of Art, Painting, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Carrie Marill was born in San Francisco, CA 1976. As an artist, she draws inspiration from a vast body of research - from folk art quilts and Persian miniatures to propaganda posters and industrial design. Marill is inspired by the tension between ornament and object, intellectual and aesthetic. She approaches each work with a disciplined philosophy of color and form to entice her audience to engage her work on many levels of beauty, concept, and the invitation to lose themselves in art amongst the noise of the contemporary world.
In addition to displaying her work at galleries and institutions internationally, Marill’s practice includes developing large-scale outdoor murals for public and private clients. She also designs and creates jewelry, prints, clothing, and accessories for her lifestyle business called Punkwasp allowing her to share her aesthetic and artistic vision with a wider audience.
Marill graduated from San Francisco State University in 2002 with a BA in Painting and received an MFA in Painting from Cornell University in 2004. Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States in California, New York, Seattle, Miami, Dallas, and Arizona. Marill's work has been published in New American Paintings, Wired Magazine, Southwest Art, The New Times, The Wall Street Journal, Modern Painters, LA Weekly, and the LA Times. Her work is in the collection of Todd Oldham, Missoni, Disney, Tiffany’s, The Hallmark Collection, and many other exciting collectors.
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UPCOMING
MARCH 2024
Transcendent Geometries - Ato Ribeiro, Carrie Marill, and Andy Burgess: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Diversity in the Desert, Phoenix Airport Museum Phoenix AZ
Sea Folk: Solo Exhibition, Conduit Gallery Dallas TX
Kim Kridler, David Kroll, and Carrie Marill: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
2022
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition, Legend City Studios Phoenix AZ
Wear Your Love Like Heaven: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
Global Entry: Group Exhibition, Oolong Gallery’s Inaugural Exhibition Solana Beach CA
2020
Wordless Communication: Solo Exhibition, Conduit Gallery Dallas TX
Blue: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
2019
Subversive White: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
At the Doors of Perception: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
Inspired by History: Group Exhibition, Chandler Center for the Arts Chandler AZ
Close Observation of Inanimate Objects: Scottsdale Center Space Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
2018
Object Inspiration: Group Exhibition, Chandler Museum of Art, Chandler AZ
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery Miami FL
2017
Tell Me Why, Tell Me Why, Tell Me Why (Why Can’t we Live Together?): Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery Miami FL
Imbalance: Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
2016
Get up Get Down, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery Miami FL
Expo Chicago, Lisa Sette Gallery Chicago IL
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
Sculptural Paintings, Conduit Gallery Dallas TX
Get Up Get Down, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
2015
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery Miami FL
13 Works You’ll be Lucky to See: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
30-Year Anniversary Exhibition: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery Phoenix AZ
2014
This is Not America Protest, Resistance, Poetics, ASU Art Museum: Group Exhibition, Tempe AZ
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
Domesticated, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ
2013
No Ordinary Place: Group Exhibition, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
Memento Mori, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery Miami FL
2012
Hi n Lo, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
A Year in the Life of 8 String Theory Drawings, Jen Bekman Gallery New York NY
Patterns, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Phoenix AZ
Outdoors works: Large-scale Homage mural to Margret Killgalen on 2nd street and Roosevelt, Phoenix AZ
New Directions: Development of Combine Studios an International Artist Residency in Downtown Phoenix.
2011
PULSE MIAMI | Jen Bekman Gallery & ART MIAMI | Lisa Sette Gallery
Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown Phoenix AZ
2010
The Splendid Table, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
Visual Aides, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York NY
PULSE MIAMI | Jen Bekman Gallery & ART MIAMI |Lisa Sette Gallery
PULSE Art Fair, New York NY
Visual Aides, Howard House Gallery, Seattle WA
Leighton Artist Colony Residency, The Banff Centre, Alberta CA
Defining Sustainability, group exhibition, ASU Art Museum
Pattern Makers, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
2008
A Big Small Town, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale AZ
Colorado Arts Ranch Residency, Steamboat Springs CO
Newfoundland, K. Saari Gallery, Steamboat Springs CO
Resident Birds, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX- Group Show
Ornithology, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York NY
Doing A Lot with Very Little, Jen Bekman Gallery, NYC
2007
String Theory, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
PULSE Art Fair, New York NY.
Group Show, The Trunk Space, Phoenix AZ.
Newfoundland, sixspace, Culver City CA.
Dirty Birdy, Modified Arts, Phoenix AZ
2006
Art LA, The New Los Angeles Art Fair, in Santa Monica CA
Duke and Duchess, sixspace, Culver City CA
Public Lecture, Tupelo Room, Barnard Observatory, University of Mississippi
PULSE Art Fair, New York NY
Benefit group show art auction, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art AZ
LACE benefit group show art auction, Los Angeles
Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
Contemporary Forum’s 2005 Artists Grants Awards Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
New American City: Artists Look Forward, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix AZ
Phoenix, Land of Somewhere, group exhibition, Phoenix AZ
Denatured, group exhibition, Icehouse, Phoenix AZ
Aqua, Art Fair, Miami FL
2005
Arizona Artists, group exhibition, Platform Gallery, Tucson AZ
Terra Non Firma, group exhibition, Howard House Gallery, Seattle WA Art LA
The New Los Angeles Art Fair, Santa Monica CA
Plants and Trees, group exhibition, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso TX
Lecturer, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts in El Paso TX
Plaid, group exhibition, Platform Gallery in Tucson AZ
2004
Artlink Annual Juried Exhibition, Phoenix City Hall, Arizona.
Carrie Marill & Andrew Sutherland, sixpace, Los Angeles CA
Harvest, eyelounge, Phoenix AZ
Thesis Show, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, New York NY
2003
Viridian, Artists at Chelsea, New York NY
New Paintings by Carrie Marill, Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, NY
Being Home, Willard Straight Hall, Cornell University, NY
First Year MFA Show, Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, NY
2002
Points of the Day, Flux Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Big Pagoda Company, Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA.
Max Gallery, Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA.
My First Solo Show, Flux Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
R8, Fillmore Street San Francisco, CA.
Senior Exhibition, San Francisco State University, 2001, 2002
Stillwell Show, San Francisco State University, 2001, 2002
PRESS/ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Diversity in the Desert Exhibition at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Museum, August 2023
Luxe Magazine, “Sense of Craft”, Maile Pingel, October 5, 2022
Shout out SoCal, Local Stories “Meet Carrie Marill, Artist”, September 27, 2022
Feminisms, A Partnership with 516 ARTS and the Wheelwright Museum, September 2020
AZ Central, “How Phoenix Artist Carrie Marill Found the Courage to Face Her Fragility” by Kerry Lengel, January 7, 2020
Daily Independent “Lisa Sette Gallery to host Carrie Marill work”, January 6, 2020
Java Magazine, “Carrie Marill, Protected Vulnerability at Lisa Sette” by Grant Vetter, January 2020
Phoenix New Times, Best of Phoenix, Megalopolitan Life, 2020 “Best Window Art, Carrie Marill”
ArtLtd. Magazine, “Carrie Marill: Sculptural Paintings at Conduit Gallery” by John Zotos, November 29, 2016
New American Paintings, “West #126”, October 2016
“Carrie Marill at Conduit Gallery” by Todd Camplin October 8, 2016
Grantvetter.info, Art Reviews “Abstract Reverberations: A Review of Carrie Marill’s New Work” by Dr. Grant Vetter, July 27, 2016
Phoenix New Times, “Carrie Marill Leaps Forward with Smart, Playful Show at Lisa Sette Gallery” by Deborah H. Susman, May 4, 2016
“Daily Serving: Carrie Marill: Domesticated at Lisa Sette Gallery” by Jennifer McCabe Morales
Phoenix New Times, “Domesticated at Lisa Sette Gallery is Unsettling in the Best Way” by Katrina Montgomery, May 1, 2014
New American Paintings, “West #96”, October 201
LA Times, “Busy fingers, quirky notions” by Leah Ollman, August 10, 2007
Suicide Girls, online interview, July 25, 2007
New American Paintings, “West #66”, October 2006
LA Weekly, “Pictures from the Unibrow Revolution or How Outlaw Art Went Mainstream”, by Doug Harvey, October 28, 2005
AWARDS/RECOGNITION
Denis Diderot Grant, Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist Residency, Chateau d’Orquevaux, France 2020
New American Paintings, 2016
Contemporary Forum of Phoenix Art Museum Artist Grant, 2005
The Charles Baskerville Painting Award, Cornell University, 2004
CCA Grant, Cornell Council on the Arts, 2003