Lauren Carter (b. 1982) holds an MFA with Distinction from the University of New Mexico and a BFA from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Primarily working in mixed media sculpture and installations, she often includes found objects and personal items that are synonymous with loss and sentimentality.

A native of south Louisiana, she presently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Selected exhibitions include: Rendezvous, Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles (2015), Suddenly Plastic, Chicago Artists’ Coalition (2014); Iffy Conditions, GAG Gallery, Chicago (2014); Artifice from the Cave, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago (2014); Body in Flux, Chicago Art Department Gallery, Chicago (2013); pre/proscribed. Gallery AC[2], Albuquerque, NM (2012); New View, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM (2011).