About

BIO
Anna Carter is an interdisciplinary artist based in Knoxville, TN.

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STATEMENT
My work paints a thin line between attraction and revulsion, evoking feelings that start in your gut. I engage with imagery that makes me uncomfortable, dissecting it into visual and conceptual components, and cropping in almost to the point of abstraction. Through this process, I amplify qualities of my subject matter like wetness, translucency, and organic form.

I challenge accepted dichotomies by imagining them not as opposite qualities, but as two mirrors held to each other. I look for the beautiful in the grotesque and the grotesque in the beautiful. Above all, I challenge the conception of human and nature as separate or opposite. I aim to show my viewer something they have seen in a way that they have never seen it before.
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CV
ANNA CARTER
B. 2002
UNITED STATES

EDUCATION
2025 BA Studio Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
BS Geology and Environmental Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

EXHIBITIONS
2026 Dogwood Regional Exhibition, Dogwood Arts Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2025 Honors Exhibition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2025 Worm Show, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2025 78th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2024 77th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2024 McClung Student Advisory Board Art Competition, McClung Museum, Knoxville, TN
2024 The Phoenix Presents: Select Works from Issues 68 & 69, Gallery 1010, Knoxville, TN
2024 Thing Theory, Group Sculpture Pop-up Exhibition, Candoro Marble Building, Knoxville, TN
2024 Gaudy Gold Frame Show, Broadway Studios and Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2023 76th Annual Student Art Competition, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN

PUBLICATIONS
2025 Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine, Issue 70
2024 Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine, Issue 69
2024 Phoenix Literary Arts Magazine, Issue 68

AWARDS
2025 Handheld Student Film Festival Juror’s Choice Award
2024 Student Art Competition Printmaking Award