Kaitlyn Carr (b. 1992) is a process-based visual artist with a practice rooted in the repetition of modular shape and site-specific response to the built environment.
3000 Yellow Rectangles on a Parking Garage (2024) was a temporary installation created from 3,000 pieces of wheatpasted Tyvek® on a SmartPark garage in Portland, OR. Completed in the public view, this work merged performance with spatial intervention.
Influenced by binary systems, obsessive ritual, and physical labor, Carr’s visual language adapts across a range of matrices to examine the complex relationships between parts and the whole.
Carr earned a BFA from Oregon State University in 2016 and has exhibited throughout the West Coast, including the Portland Biennial (2016) and Tryst Alternative Art Fair (2024). Her work belongs to permanent collections at Oregon State University and the City of Kent, WA.
EXHIBITIONS
2025 VOIR- | VER-, group invitational, Grizzly Grizzly Philadelphia, PA, May 2 - June 1
2025 A Chorus Without a Name, juried group show, Harlow Hotel Portland, OR, Mar - June
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