Mary Ellen Carroll
The artist has exhibited at Whitney Museum, Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, ICA London, PS1-New York, The Menil Collection in Houston, and MUMOK in Vienna.
Carroll received a Bachelor of Science degree and minored in fine art and worked with Betty Woodman and made films when Stan Brakhage taught at the University of Colorado Boulder.
• prototype 180 "makes architecture perform as a work of art"[3] that is literally a ground-shifting exercise, in that it structurally involved the 180 degree rotation, back to front, of a house and its surrounding land in the development of Sharpstown, a suburb of Houston, Texas.
[3] In planning for over a decade, prototype 180 is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology.
Carroll was commissioned in 2016 to realize two site specific works of art that consist of two channel letter LED signs that read, WHEN DID YOU ARRIVE and WHEN WILL YOU RETURN, and a temporary five-story structure that used standard construction scaffolding to erect an edifice within the courtyard of Alserkal Avenue in 2016.
Al Quoz was ‘seeable’ and one physically understood the lateralization of Dubai and how the skyscrapers are anomalies to the rest of the metropolis and where the emphasis has shifted the foundation into the cultural and the social realm.
• PUBLIC UTILITY 2.0 is the ongoing and architects the space of radio frequency as a work of conceptual art providing equitable Internet access and groundbreaking uses of spectrum in the cultural realm.
PUBLIC UTILITY 2.0 was a commission featured in the biennial Prospect.3|New Orleans under the artist direction of Franklin Sirmans and used TVWS and experimental licenses from the FCC for deployments.
[13] Nothing fomented public outcry in 2014 by noted art historians and art professionals including David Joselit-Harvard University, Frazer Ward-Smith College, and Yona Backer-Third Streaming when Marina Marina Abramović planned and titled a performance Nothing that for the Serpentine and failed to acknowledge Carroll's performance and historical precedent.
In 1998/99 the entire text from Laurence Sterne's novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was drawn on a 72 x 50 inches sheet of Arches paper, from which a silkscreen print was produced.
On the ten-year anniversary of the drawing, August 8, 2008, Carroll procured a fire permit from the National Park Service in Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The film was screened in New York City, through the organization Light Industry, alongside Rachel Harrison as presented by David Joselit.
Its chapters bear the titles of sixteen of the 209 categories that Carroll has used since 1988 to organize a card catalog index of her ideas and potential works.
