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Carrie Scanga

Carrie Scanga is a multi-disciplinary artist whose installations and works on paper reflect on personal mythologies, examine nostalgias for place and identity, and engage theories of ecology, time, architecture and design. 


She has held solo exhibitions in Berlin, Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, and Philadelphia among other locales. Her work has been included in group exhibitions in commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art, the Kingston Museum of Contemporary Art, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Fellowship awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, Sculpture Space, Blue Mountain Center, and Fundación Valparaíso have supported the development of her work. She is an Associate Professor at Bowdoin College where she also directs the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project residency program.


Courtesy of the Artist

Born 1977
Lives and Works Portland, ME
Education
MFA, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2001
Permanent Collection

Munakata Shiko Memorial Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan

The Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Nicholls State University

University of Central Florida

University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Herron Art Library Artist Book Collection, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England

Bowdoin College Library Special Collections

SPACE Gallery, Rum Riot Press Zine Archive, Portland, Maine

Print and Picture File, Free Library of Philadelphia

Louisiana State University

Women’s Studio Workshop

University of Colorado (Special Collections Department & Rare Books Room)

Lamson Library, Plymouth State University

Zine Library at Little Berlin Gallery