Cathy Carter

Website: www.cathycarterartist.com
Instagram: @cathycarterartist
Email: cathy.carter@xtra.co.nz

Cathy Carter is a photographic and multimedia conceptual artist, based in Grey Lynn, Auckland. Her art is inspired by concerns about climate change and our evolving relationship with bodies of water as we enter the Anthropocene. My art practice explores bodies of water as physical, cultural, and unique environmental ‘landscapes’ and investigates our complex psychological relationship to water through different perspectives and geographical locations.

Carter is a graduate of AUT University with a Master of Art and Design (Hons) 2013. A finalist this year in the Molly Morpeth 3D Art Awards, 2020. A finalist in the Parkins Drawing Prize, 2019. A four-times finalist in the Wallace Art Awards (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2014), and the international HeadOn Phortography Prize (2019, 2018, 2016 and 2015). And a finalist in the 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Prize. Carter’s work has been exhibited in artist-run, dealer and public art galleries including Carter’s work has been exhibited in artist-run, dealer and public art galleries including The Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, the Academy Galleries, Wellington, Percy Thompson in Taranaki, Muse art gallery in Hawkes Bay, The Suter Art gallery in Nelson, HeadOn Sydney, Moaroom Paris, 'Breathtaking': inSPIRACJE12 @TrafoSczcecin Poland, Manifest Gallery Cincinnati Ohio and Photoville in Brooklyn NYC and in 2021 'Almost Paradise' Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai. Her work is held in many

collections including The Wallace Arts Trust and The Parliament Art Collection.

Through the use of different perspectives Carter seeks to embody seeing as an experience rather than solely as observation. As spaces of isolation and destabilisation, the bodies of water depicted in her work offer sensuous and psychologically-compelling encounters, and explore human vulnerability in these environments, as well as the vulnerability of our oceans and waterways at this time in history.

COMPETITIONS
Finalist Parkins Drawing Prize 2020
Finalist in the Molly Morpeth 3D Art Awards 2020
Finalist in the 28th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2019
Finalist Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award 2019
Finalist Parkins Drawing Prize 2019
Finalist Sydney 'Head On' International Landscape Competition 2019
Shortlisted, one of three Photographers for the Auckland Photography Festival Commission, 2019
Finalist Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award 2018
Finalist 27th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2018
Finalist 'Sydney Head On' International Portrait Competition 2018
Finalist Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award 2017
Finalist 26th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2017
Finalist Art About Water H20 Manifest Gallery Competition, Ohio 2017
Finalist Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Award 2016
Finalist 25th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2016
Finalist Sydney 'Head On' International Portrait Competition 2016
Finalist The Fifth Annual Exposure Awards 2015
Finalist 'Head On' International Portrait Competition 2015
Finalist 23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards 2014
Nominated for the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards 2013
Nominated for the Glaister Ennor Graduate Art Awards 2011
Awarded the AUT Visual Arts Photography Prize 2010

EDUCATION
Big Idea Art mentoring programme, 2018 - 2019
'Women in Photography' panel discussion chaired by Linda Tyler at the Auckland Art Gallery Sunday 16th June, 1pm.
Masters of Visual Arts, AUT University (Hons), Auckland 2013
Post graduate Diploma of Art and Design ( Distinction), AUT University, Auckland 2011
Bachelor of Visual Arts (Distinction), AUT University, Auckland 2008 - 2010
Diploma of Visual Arts (Distinction), Manukau Institute of Technology, Auckland 2007
Delivered a seminar at Multi Mediums, the AUT Art & Design Research Conference, 2012.
http://www.aut.ac.nz/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/296256/MultiMedium_invite3.pdf

Exhibitions:
Studio Art Tour July 26th, 2020 Dick Frizzell/ Ann Robinson/ Layla Walter/ Cathy Carter/ Terry Stringer/
Muse art Gallery, Sept 6th - October 8th (solo show) 2020
Föenander Galleries, Auckland, NZ (solo show) postponed 2020
Allpress Gallery Auckland, NZ (female group exhibition) postponed 2020
Auckland Art Fair, Virtual Fair with Foenander Galleries 30th April 17th May
WorldBending a Survivors Guide, Amano Events Space Auckland Central, 2019
Spring Exhibition (as guest artist) The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū Nelson, 2019
Wai Wai Wai, Föenanaders Galleries, Auckland, 2019 (Artist Talk)
Her Eye, The Grey Place Gallery, Auckland, 2019
The Golden Hour, The Vivian Gallery, Matakana, Warkworth, 2018 – 2019
The Summer Exhibition, NKB Gallery Auckland, 2018
Weird Fishes , Allpress Gallery, Auckland, 2018 (Artist Talk)
27th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland 2018
Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, Pataka Art + Museum, Suter Gallery, CoCA Chch.
Volition, 541 Studio, Auckland Festival of Photography, Auckland, 2018
Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards exhibition, Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2018
PhotoForum Members' Show, 541 Studio, Auckland 2018
Blue Lies, Fluid Realms, Percy Thompson Gallery, Stratford, Taranaki 2018 (Artist Talk)
Waimarama, Reflecting on Water, Muse Gallery, Hawkes Bay 2018 (Artist Talk)
State of Play, The Vivian Gallery, , Matakana, Warkworth, 2017 - 2018
Sizzle, Waiheke Community Art Gallery. Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2017 – 2018
Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards exhibition, Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2017
H2o, Manifest Gallery Cincinnati, Ohio,USA, 2017
Inspiration, 'Breathtaking, inSPIRACJE 12 International Visual Arts Festival 2017
(curated by Rob Garrett), Szczecin, Poland
Obscurity, Artweek, 541 Studio 2017 (curated by Cathy Carter) Auckland, 2017
26th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland,
Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, Pataka Art + Museum, Wellington, 2017
Cerulean Chime, Muse Gallery , Hawkes Bay, 2017 (Artist Talk)
Open Waters, Arthaus Gallery, Auckland Festival of Photography 2017,(curated by Cathy Carter), Auckland, 2017
Sense of Self , 541 Studio, Auckland Festival of Photography 2017, Auckland,2017
In The Neighbourhood, The Grey Place, Auckland, 2017
Oceanids Rising, Platform 72 Gallery, HeadOn Festival, Sydney, 2017 (Artist Talk)
Not Just Flowers, The Vivian Gallery, Matakana, 2017
State of Play, The Vivian Gallery, , Matakana, Warkworth, 2016 - 2017
Walker and Hall Waiheke Art Awards exhibition, Waiheke Island, Auckland, 2016
25th Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland 2016
Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, Pataka Art + Museum
Oceanids Rising, World Ocean Day, MoaRoom ,Paris, France, 2016
Out From Down Under & Beyond, Agora Gallery, New York, USA 2016
Portrait Prize Exhibition, Headon Photo Festival, Museum of Sydney, 2016
From the Studio Floor . Charity Art Exhibitions, Hamilton 2016
Indian Photography Festival Hyderabad, State Art Gallery, Madhapur India, 2016
Photoville Brooklyn,Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Arbitrary Chemistry, Jadite Gallery, New York, 2015
23rd Annual Wallace Art Awards, Pah Homestead, Auckland 2016
Wallace Gallery Morrinsville, Pataka Art + Museum
Antoinette Godkin Art House Group Show, Parnell, Auckland, 2015
5th Annual Exposure Award Exhibition (Digital Display) Musee du Louvre, Paris, 2015
Portrait Prize Exhibition, Headon Photo Festival, Museum of Sydney, 2015
We Float, Antoinette Godkin Gallery, Parnell, Auckland, 2014
The Grand Old Face Of The Plateau, Second Storey Gallery, Auckland, 2014
Immersion and Emergence ( Installation), AUT University MA Show, Auckland 2013
Waitemata, Obsidian Waters, (a public art project), Transforming Topographies, The Lab 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, 2013.
Glaister Ennor Graduate Awards, Orexart gallery, Auckland, 2013
The General Sales, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, 2013
Male Nudes The Pah Homestead, TSB Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, 2013
That, That Was And Wasn’t , Second Storey gallery, Auckland, 2013
Transitions, St Paul St Gallery 3, Auckland, 2012
AD12 Festival of Art and Design, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, 2012
Glaister Ennor Graduate Awards, Orexart gallery, Auckland, 2012
No Money No Problems, 5B Gallery, Auckland 2012
BYOB, (video projection), Snake Pit gallery, Auckland, 2012
Speakeasy, Assembly Project, (video projections), St Paul St Gallery, Auckland 2012
I’m Here For the Bees, (Video projection), St Paul St Gallery, Auckland, 2012
Convergence, Auckland Festival of Photography - Fringe, Black Asterisk Gallery 2012
The General Sales, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, 2012
Waterways, Second Storey Gallery, Auckland, 2012
Winterland, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, 2011
Land vs Sea, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, 2011
Raw Festival of Art and Design, AUT University, Auckland,
Shape Shifter, The New Dowse Gallery, The Hutt, Wellington, 2008
NZ Sculpture On Shore, Fort Takapuna Historic Reserve, Auckland, 2006