Lawrence W. Carroll (26 October 1954 – 21 May 2019) was an Australian-born American painter who established a career on both sides of the Atlantic.

His works are held in museums around the world and he notably was included in major exhibitions such as Documenta IX and the Venice Biennale [1][2] In his early career Carroll worked as an illustrator for The Progressive, The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, The Nation, Reason, Spin, Ray Gun, and other periodicals drawing political illustrations[3] and notably he designed the artwork for the American thrash metal band Slayer's album covers.

In 2007 and 2008 he had solo museum exhibitions at Hotel des Arts in Toulon, France, and at the Museo Correr[5] in Venice, Italy.

In 2014/15 the Bologna Museum of Modern Art (MAMbo) hosted a large survey exhibition with works from the mid-1980s to the present.

Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach Germany, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano and many other private and public collections worldwide.

Although tangential to his practice as a painter, Carroll's designs for Slayer's album covers Reign in Blood (1986), South of Heaven (1988), Seasons in the Abyss (1990) and Christ Illusion (2006) were notable.

In 2002 Carroll created an installation in Munich, Germany for a project called "getting lost" Raum der Stille, in the Karmelitenkirche, Promenadeplatz where he included one of his first works for which he would later coin the name "table paintings".