Nanette Carter

Since 1990, Nanette Carter has consistently transformed her artistic practice, actively engaging in various gallery and museum exhibitions up to the present day.  

Biography of Nanette Carter

Nanette Carter, born in 1954, stands as an artist whose profound impact reverberates nationally and internationally. Since the mid-1970s, her abstract collages have graced solo and group exhibitions, revealing a profound sensitivity to injustice, humanity, and the dramatic narratives of nature. Nanette Carter's work, shaped since 1997 through multimedia on Mylar, echoes the legacy of African American abstract art, drawing inspiration from luminaries like Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, William T. Williams, Howardena Pindell, Romare Bearden, and Alvin Loving Jr., who served as her mentor.

Majoring in art history and studio art, Carter graduated from Oberlin in 1976, marking the year of her first solo show and inclusion in a tour organized by the National Association of Fine Arts Small Colleges. Subsequently earning her MFA from Pratt in 1978, Carter's presence in the art scene intensified.

Over the years, Carter has been included in significant group exhibitions, such as "African-American Artists & Abstraction in Havana" (2014) and "Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction: 1960s to Today" (2017). Her contributions to the art world have not gone unnoticed, earning her grants and fellowships from esteemed foundations like Anonymous Was a Woman, the Gottlieb Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Jerome Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.