Kaitlyn Carr (b.1992) is a multidisciplinary visual artist living and working in Portland, Oregon. She earned a earned a BFA with a focus in printmaking from Oregon State University in 2016, and a Master’s degree in Secondary Education from Black Hills State University in 2021. She attended Playa Artist Residency in 2017 and has shown in multiple juried group shows throughout the West Coast, including Umpqua Community College’s Hallie Brown Ford Gallery in 2017 and Tryst Alternative Art Fair in Torrance, CA in 2024.

Carr’s work explores multiplicity and modulation through a generative process that borders masochistic performance. She uses excessive repetition with a minimal framework of rule and shape to arrive at complex results.  Like binary computing code, which is comprised of simple elements - ones and zeros - Carr is interested in ways in which singular units can be combined to create systems. Her recent site-specific installation, 3000 Yellow Rectangles on a Parking Garage, temporarily covered the exterior facades of a SmartPark garage in downtown Portland, OR. Drawing inspiration from artistic duo Jean Claude and Christo, two 6-story walls were wheatpasted with 3000 hand-cut pieces of yellow inkjet coated DuPont Tyvek® to create the massive, nebulous template.

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

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

2024 Supernova H0pe, group invitational curated by ahuva s. zaslavsky, Gagallery, Portland, OR, Nov 1 - 31

PAST EXHIBITIONS

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