Biography

Carol Carter is an established St. Louis painter working primarily in large-scale watercolors and acrylics.  She has exhibited extensively over the past thirty years both regionally and nationally, including twenty-five one-person exhibitions and numerous invitational and group shows. Her work is represented in many public and private art collections.  In 2002, three books by RotoVison Press, London, England, featured her work.  She was voted BEST ST. LOUIS ARTIST by The Riverfront Times in September 2000. In 2002 her work was chosen for the cover of New American Painting.

Carol Carter received her MFA from Washington University, St. Louis. She received a MAA-NEA Fellowship in Painting and Works on Paper in 1994. In  2003, the US Embassy sponsored a solo exhibition of her work at the Teatro del Centro de Arte, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.  Ms. Carter has been visiting artist in Oslo and Stavanger, Norway, in 1999, 2001, and 2003. .  A retrospective of her work was held at the Turner Center for the Arts in Valdosta, GA in 2006.  Different Strokes, Quartro publishing, in London, England recently featured her work this year.  She had an exhibition in Guayaquil, Ecuador in July 2008 and will be holding a retrospective at East Central College in Fulton, MO in 2009.