Carrie Moyer

Biography

Carrie Moyer (b.1977, Denver, CO) is a painter whose works reimagine movement, weight, and suspension using an expanded palette of materials that reshape the canvas and redirect the flow of poured pigment. Her works echo the scale of geological shifts, the sweep of winds, and the rhythm of orbiting bodies.

Moyer has presented numerous solo and two-person exhibitions, including Carrie Moyer and Sheila Pepe: Tabernacles for Trying Times (Portland Museum of Art, 2020; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2021); Carrie Moyer: Pirate Jenny (Tang Teaching Museum, 2013; Canzani Center Gallery and SCAD Museum of Art, 2014); and Carrie Moyer: Interstellar (Worcester Art Museum, 2012). Her work has also appeared in major group exhibitions such as Making Their Mark (Shah Garg Foundation, 2023; traveling to BAMPFA, 2024), the Whitney Biennial 2017, and Agitprop! (Brooklyn Museum, 2015).

Her work is held in numerous public collections, including the Birmingham Museum of Art; the Tang Teaching Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Rose Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has received multiple awards and fellowships, among them a National Academician title (2019), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2013), and Anonymous Was A Woman (2009). Moyer is a Professor and Co-Director of the graduate studio program at Hunter College and serves on the Board of Governors at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.