Carla Edwards (b. Illinois), lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work examines popular iconography, material process and vernacular through the lens of sculpture, performance, drawing, and video. She has exhibited nationally and internationally most notably at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.; SHRINE, Los Angeles, CA; FOR-SITE, San Francisco, CA.; Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA.; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR., Paula Cooper, New York, NY.; Nuit Blanche Toronto, Canada; Volta5, Basel, Switzerland; and Night Gallery, Los Angeles, LA, among other venues. She has exhibited public sculpture at the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY and at Lighthouse Works, NY. The artist is an alumna of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a studio fellow in the Whitney Independent Study Program. Her works are included in numerous private collections and the public collections of Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL; Vera Institute of Justice, Los Angeles, CA; and JP Morgan Chase. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
