Kaitlyn Carr (b. 1992) is a process-based artist exploring multiplicity and modulation. She earned a BFA at Oregon State University (2016) where she developed a deep fascination with the systematic, replicative, and labor-intensive qualities of printmaking. Her first investigation of print as performance included a 500-run silkscreen series that was produced over twelve consecutive hours in 2014. Today, she continues to push the physical limits of her body in strenuous and monotonous work through massive, site-specific, temporary installations - such as 3000 Yellow Rectangles on a Parking Garage. In collaboration with the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and after/time Collective, Carr wheatpasted three-thousand hand-cut pieces of yellow inkjet coated DuPont Tyvek® over four days – linking labor and performance in the public realm. The resulting nebulous design covered a 6-story SmartPark garage in Portland, OR between June – September 2024.
Carr continues to indulge in the obsessive rituals often associated with a print practice, though she has expanded her process to textiles, drawings, and other works on paper. She has exhibited in multiple group shows up and down the west coast, including the Portland Biennial (2016) and Tryst Alternative Art Fair (2024), and has collaborated with government agencies, art galleries, and other community organizations to create temporary site-specific installations in Portland – where she currently resides with her two tuxedo cats, Mouse and Moose.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Supernova H0pe, group invitational curated by ahuva s. zaslavsky, Gagallery, Portland, OR, Nov 1 - 31
2024 Site-specific installation at the Street Soccer USA & Laundry Open Cup, King School Park, 4906 NE 6th Ave, Portland, OR, Sep 7
2024 Collaborative Installation with Kristen Diederich, TRYST Alternative Art Fair, Torrance, CA, Aug 23 - 25
2024 Site-specific installation at Yukon Tavern, Portland, OR, August 3
2024 Site-specific installation at Soliloquy Fine Arts, Portland, OR, July 20
2024 3000 Yellow Rectangles on a Parking Garage, site-specific installation at Smart Park, 730 SW 10th Ave. Portland, OR, Jun 13 - Sept 26
2024 Site-specific installation at Bon Voyage Vintage, Seattle, WA, May
2024 By Chance, collaborative invitational with Mariel Pitti, 811 Stark Vitrine, Portland, OR, Feb - Jul
2023 Navigating Race and Ethnicity, Stumptown Belmont, solo invitational, Portland, OR, Aug 24 - Nov 28
2021 Valley Art, group invitational, Forest Grove, OR, Jan - Feb
2021 A Critical Conversation, group invitational, ANTI-AESTHETIC, Eugene, OR, Jan 14 - Mar 21
2020 Kaitlyn Carr-Kiprotich, solo invitational, Living Room Realty Gallery, Portland, OR, Jan 30 - Apr 20.
2019 Kaitlyn Carr-Kiprotich & Jake Prendez, two person invitational, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, WA, Nov 06 - Dec 27.
2017 Kent Summer Art Exhibit, juried group exhibition, Centennial Center Gallery, Kent, WA, Jun 06 – Aug 22.
2017 Love Will Keep Us Together, juried group exhibition, Art Gallery at South Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA, Jul 03 – Aug 17.
2017 A Radical Light, group invitational at the Hallie Brown Ford Gallery, Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, OR, Jan 13 – Mar 10.
2016 Navigating Race and Ethnicity, juried solo exhibition, Corrine Woodman Gallery, The Arts Center, Corvallis, OR, Sept 27 - Oct 22.
2016 Portland2016: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, collaborative juried group exhibition with Julie Green, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR, Jul - Sep.
COLLECTIONS
2018 Portable Collection, Kent Parks, Recreation, and Community Services, Kent, Washington
2016 Provost's Purchase Award Collection, Department of Art, Oregon State University
EDUCATION
2021 Masters of Science in Secondary Education, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD
2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
HONORS
2020 Purchase of artwork nominated and selected by the Academic Senate at Oregon State University
2016 Nomination for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Program