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Kamari Carter

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Multidisciplinary Artist // Night Owl
@academymuseum until July 2027
@mocaarlington until January 2027
@art_omi AIR 2026

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🚨NEW MUSEUM ACQUISITION🚨

It is with immense pleasure that I can finally announce that my piece 𝑶𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓 (2024) has recently been acquired by @risdmuseum . This is surreal y’all. Like part of me can’t believe I’m typing these words, and another part of me isn’t surprised in the least. When I was a grad student studying for my masters I vividly remember seeing Nari Ward’s “We The People” exhibition at New Museum and that night declaring to myself that I’d give myself a goal of at least seven years to get my work within the collection of an institution (honestly, at the time I wanted it to be New Museum… before I learned that they were a non-collecting institution 😓). Truth be told I was kinda just yappin’ back then, and I’m kind of an idiot because who sets a goal like that for themselves before they’ve even turned in their thesis? Well… One of the main characters from my favorite anime has a quote that reads “It takes an idiot to do cool things. That’s why it’s cool”. This is undoubtedly the coolest thing that’s happened in my career so far, and it happened a year shy of my self-imposed deadline.

That said, I would be remiss to not acknowledge the many many helping hands along the way that made something like this possible. Thank you @larisa.grace for listening to me crash out bi-monthly about the art world and how my career is in shambles. Thank you @enah.jae for picking me up in the DEAD of winter at like 11:48pm the night I touched down to start working on this new body of work, and for confirming my suspicions about how sick it would be to make this piece after I showed you those Kay Rosen works. Thank you @imani.g.b for tolerating my absolutely manic schedule and letting me sit in silence for an upwards of fifteen minutes when I ran out of acrylic the first day of production. Thank you to @spacescle for welcoming me with open arms, and @zygotepress for all the production help. Thank you @_gabwalk for championing my work and @microscope_gallery for all of their help facilitating.

I’ve re-written this 4 times already and each time Instagram tells me my caption is too long so I’ll stop yapping now. by @kamaricarterstudio

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🔬✨🖼️🎉 taken in Celebration by @kamaricarterstudio

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3 years ago

Baby’s first biennial (👶🏾) opening this Saturday at @mocaarlington! 𝑻𝒐 𝑬𝒂𝒕 𝑶𝒖𝒕 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 Curated by the fabulous Jesse Firestone brings together 4 artists who look critically at the U.S. infrastructure and the many topics that encompass the perceived expectation of life in this country. Through sound, moving image, photography, and sculpture; each artist takes themes of sousveillence, democracy, and privacy and subverts them into concept or object-hood (sometimes both); examining practice and praxis alongside one another. Grateful to be showing work alongside such an amazing array of artists and looking forward to keeping listening ear on the world around us. by @kamaricarterstudio

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18 days ago

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce my contribution to 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓻 𝓢𝓱𝓸𝔀 at the @academymuseum in Los Angeles. For those who know me well know…. I LOVE HORROR FILMS! When I was 13 I remember staying up way later than I should watching a “Top 100 Horror Films” special on TV of talking heads from the industry (actors, writers, directors) dissecting their list of the best films of the genre. Of the list a film I’d never heard of came in at number 3: Takeshi Miike’s 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (1999). I begged my mom to find a DVD copy (this was way before YouTube and all the online access we have today) and we went to every BestBuy in the city until finally finding and buying one of the last copies available. Truthfully I was way too young to be watching such a demented film, but that viewing experience changed me. What a privledge to champion one of my favorite genres, in one of my favorite cities (and home no less). A huge thank you to the curators Jessica and Nicholas for entrusting me with this project, and thank you to @daqiancao for even mentioning my name in the preproduction meetings before we set off on such an ambitious project. The show is up for just shy of a month, so please do check it out….. if you dare. 👻 by @kamaricarterstudio

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20 days ago

For my 65th birthday I’m ̶d̶e̶s̶t̶r̶o̶y̶i̶n̶g̶… beautifying all flock cameras I come across 📸🚨🚔😍 by @kamaricarterstudio

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23 days ago

Art Oh My!

I miss it already. I miss the 4am nights, I miss the insect ecosystem, the spontaneous dance parties, the temperamental weather, the laughs, the tears, the check-ins, the bears; but mostly importantly the talent. What a beautifully, wonderful grounded group of artists. An admin team that’s as funny as they are timely, and as comforting as they are challenging; and a real gaggle of folk that I will remember for the rest of my days. Thank you @art_omi for this, all of this. I’m better for it. by @kamaricarterstudio

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3 months ago

“Pew Research Center found that 69% of Americans were dissatisfied with the country’s direction early this year. That is not ingratitude. Sometimes a sour mood is simply clear vision.

In the final days before 4 July, the US supreme court gave the country a diagnosis of itself. It preserved one of the country’s greatest repairs – birthright citizenship under the 14th amendment – while loosening a guardrail against corruption and weakening another promise of equal protection.
Nearly 250 years later, the US is not a finished monument, but a structure still under repair, still contested – and in places being quietly stripped for parts.” - Jamil Smith for The Gaurdian

“Perfidy (noun) refers to the deliberate betrayal of trust or an act of faithlessness. It goes beyond a simple lie or disloyalty, representing a calculated, treacherous breach of faith where confidence is actively exploited for deceit.

Etymology and Meaning
The word derives from the Latin perfidia, which combines per- (meaning “through” or “beyond”) and fidem (meaning “faith”). Literally, it means going beyond the limits of faith. To commit an act of perfidy, there must have been a pre-existing bond of trust that is then intentionally broken.”

I’m a few days late but Happy 4th or whatever.

Kamari Carter, 𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙞𝙙𝙮 (2024) [Detail]. Triple White American Flag, White Flagpole. 72 x 60 x 1” by @kamaricarterstudio

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3 months ago

Summer Hours (2009) / dir. Olivier Assayas by @kamaricarterstudio

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5 months ago

𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬 ▄▀▄▀▄▀
excerpt from a 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐑 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞
December 13, 2025

Codes was a collaborative audio-visual performance developed in residency by Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe using data extracted from live police scanner transmissions. Deriving from Carter’s research-oriented practice on policing, incarceration, Black aesthetics, and surveillance, and Deluxe’s haptic, Afrological and techno-inspired analog compositions, Codes was a synthesis that sought to elevate the obfuscated.

Watch the full performance on our YouTube channel → link in bio 🔗

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@kamaricarterstudio
@gladstonedeluxe

video by @55ruecerat taken in Los Angeles, California by @kamaricarterstudio

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5 months ago

This#HotPicksThursday, meet Kamari Carter, a New York-based artist working primarily with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance.

His work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL; and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI, among others, and has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, Hyperallergic, and Whitewall, among others. Carter holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MFA from Columbia University. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.

Image: Kamari Carter, “Frozen Flag,” 2024. American flag, commercial freezer, ice. Dimensions variable by @kamaricarterstudio

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6 months ago

WHO IS SEEN interviews Kamari Carter at White Columns, New York
in collaboration with Precog

A performance rooted in sound, structure, and presence, where microphones become bodies and meaning unfolds over time.

In a moment where visibility itself feels unstable, the work holds space for listening, for tension, and for what remains.

#whitecolumns #precog taken in White Columns by @kamaricarterstudio

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Got the chance to sit down with @amadour_ for @whoisseen and chat about @precogmag and their new issue at @white_columns ahead of my performance last week. I also recommended my favorite ice cream spot and yapped a little bit about Super Smash Brothers. Interview is in my bio if any of that sounds interesting 🙂‍↕️ by @kamaricarterstudio

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