Carrie Mae Rose is an American fine artist, known primarily for her sculpture, fabric painting, print, and performance work. Rose's work is meant to expose, protect and decorate the female body while exploring the tensions between vulnerability and violence, purity and power, and reverence and rage. Rose's art illuminates and deconstructs the domination and corruption that currently permeates US politics and mass media. Rose's work seeks to create a new culture of feminine wisdom where each person feels safe to feel beautiful.
Carrie Mae Rose has been invited to participate in events with MoMA NYC, Brooklyn Museum, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, Rockefeller Cultural Innovation Fund, NY Hall of Science, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, IgniteNYC, Princeton Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department and Parsons the New School for Design. She has exhibited work in numerous galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Rose holds a B.A. from Prescott College and an M.F.A. in Design & Technology from Parsons the New School for Design.
PUBLIC TALKS
2023 Spoke at Silver Sands Recovery in Prescott, AZ
2023 Spoke at Urban School of San Francisco for High School students
2021 Spoke (live video symposium) at Design Science Decade Salon March 2021 at Designscience.studio
2016 “Computational Couture” at Parsons Y4 Labs NY, NY
2016 “Angels and Astronauts” for the Opening the Creative Body Course, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ
2015 “Angels and Astronauts,“ Graduate Fine Arts Satellite Lecture Series, California College of Art (CCA), San Francisco, CA
2014 “Artist Fuse with Technology,“ Silicon Harlem Panel, Harlem, NYC
2014 “Carrie Mae Rose, Wearable Weapons” at LISA (Leaders in Software and Art) Monthly Salon, LED LAB, TriBeCa, NYC, NY
2014 “Computational Fashion” at Women in Art and Technology event with Amelia Marzac at A.I.R.Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 “Carrie Mae Rose on Wearable Weapons,” NYU POLY TECH MAGNET Lecture Hall Series, NYU, NY, NY
2014 “Wearable Weapons” at Animamus Art Salon event held at Molasses Books, Brooklyn, NY
2013 “Wearable Weapons” at The Very First Year at Eyebeam Art & Technology, NY, NY
2013 “Carrie Mae Rose - Evolution of an Artist” at MFA in Design & Technology Bootcamp, Parsons, NY, NY
2013 “Computational Fashion” Keynote Speaker on Fashion & Science for STEM Day for Teens, Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Complex, NY, NY
2013 “Eyebeam Chats: Residents and Fellows in Conversation” a panel discussion about Bodies and Technology, Chelsea NY, NY
2012 “Wearable Weapons” at Microsoft Social Computing Symposium, held at NYU ITP Department, NY, NY
2011 “Wearable Weapons” at Time Warner Center Art for Business Volunteers for the Arts
2009 “Agave Armor Project,” Open Hack Day, IgniteNYC, Hudson Theater, NY, NY
FELLOWSHIPS / RESIDENCIES
2020-2021 Design Science Studio with Buckminster Fuller Institute and HabRitual, 6 month Incubator fellowship. The first cohort for the Design Science Decade was Aug 2020 -March 2021. A developmental incubator for art inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life.
2019 Highly Authorized, an Art Incubator providing a 3 month residency (May - Aug) in Ellenville, NY
2012-2014 Computational Fashion Fellow at Eyebeam in collaboration with scientist/battery expert Dr. Dan Steingart of Princeton University. Wrote a grant that funded the Computational Fashion Program at Eyebeam. 175k grant disbursed over 2 years, 2012 - 2014, from Rockefeller NYC Cultural Innovation Fund that bridged Silicon Alley and Garment District. Included multiple collaborations, exhibitions, workshops, presentations, and book launch.
2011-2012 Six month Eyebeam Residency for Violet Wand Collar project in Chelsea, NY, NY
2009 Watermill Center Residency. Butoh performer in Steven Vega's short film at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center
SOLO / TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Agave Leaf Wings installed at Upper Buena Vista in Miami, FL during Miami Art Week
2018 Double Sun installation at BolsheVita in Jerome, AZ
2016 Agave Wing Installation, Cottonwood, AZ
2015 Carrie Mae Rose, ( ) blank by Wallplay NY, NY
2013 Light As A Feather, BODYCROWNS: Poetic Models of Future Garments for Space Emigration, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, NY, NY
2012 Wearable Weapons, Hoop Study 005 (Rite of Passage), Window Gallery at Eyebeam, NY, NY
2011 ShearGlory Exhibition, Devotion, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Agave Armor for the 21st Century, Five15 Arts , Phoenix, AZ
2005 Leaping Point, Gallery Beyond Words, Prescott, AZ
2003 The Sacred and The Profane, Pangaea, Prescott, AZ
2002 Impeccable Assumptions, B.A. Thesis Show, The Chapel, Prescott, AZ
2001 Reclamation, Shoestring Gallery, Prescott, AZ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Design Science Studio Regenissance exhibition during Miami Art Week in Miami, FL
2017 Building Puentes Across Naciones, Museo de Arte de Nogales, Nogales, Mexico
2016 Gateway Project Space, Bacchanal Newark, NJ
2015 Future Fossils, Artbeat & Gild Hall, NY, NY
2014 Inseparable: The Soundwall Experience, Gallery 151 ~ NY, NY
2014 POLISH, Rox Gallery, Lower East Side NY, NY
2014 Ultra/Sensory on Womanorial, Curated online by Lilia Kudelia, World Wide Web
2014 Eyebeam Annual Showcase Exhibit, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, Chelsea, NY, NY
2013 Least Orthodox Goddess, Gallery 151, Chelsea NY, NY
2013 Eyebeam Annual Showcase Exhibit, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, Chelsea, NY, NY
2012 Look | Sharp: Art and Fashion from the Edge, Galerie Protégé, Chelsea, NY, NY
2011 Piece of Mind, F.I.T. Show, Chelsea, NY, NY
2010 BETA Spaces, Surreal Estate Arts Collective, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Merve Unsal's Online Airports Project, NY, NY
2009 Parsons Thesis Exhibit, New York, NY
2007 99$ Show, Five15 Arts , Phoenix, AZ
2006 Fiber Arts Showcase, Gallery 107, Winslow, AZ
2005 Shift Show, Gallery Beyond Words, Prescott, AZ
2003 Raku Gallery, Jerome, AZ
COLLABORATIONS / WORKSHOPS / INTERNSHIPS / FESTIVALS
2021 Agave Leaf Wings installed at Art With Me festival in Miami, FL
2019 Agave Aureole installation, Agave Heritage Festival, Hotel Congress in Tucson, AZ.
2018 Inaugural InterPlanetary Fest in Sante Fe, New Mexico, attended Living in Space.
2018 Agave Wing Installation, Agave Heritage Festival at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tohono Chul and the Hotel Congress in Tucson, AZ.
2017 Large Agave Wing Installation, Agave Heritage Festival, Hotel Congress in Tucson, AZ.
2015 Future Fossils event with Artbeat, Gild Hall and Hanoux in NY, NY
2014 Collaboration with Mars Without Borders (MWOB) and donations from Hanoux for hand-built custom Computational Couture garment for analog astronaut simulation at Mars Desert Research Station in Utah Dec 13th - Dec 29th, 2014.
2013 Between the Door and The Street: A Performance Initiated by Suzanne Lacy Brooklyn Museum & Creative Time, moderated by Jasmine Wahi Contemporary. Participated in performance as a conversationalist.
2013 NY Hall of Science Workshop Assistant to build a solar recharging device for usb connected devices.
2009 Eli Klein Fine Arts, Fine Art Gallery Intern.
2008 I was an invited guest to participate in Future Families Together Workshop at MoMA in conjunction with the exhibition Design & the Elastic Mind.
INTERVIEWS
2014 Artist Spotlight: Carrie Mae Rose ~ interview on soundwall.co
2013 MakerBot Stories Interview - Carrie Mae Rose on MakerBot Blog
2013 Video Interviews with Computational Fashion Fellows: Carrie Mae Rose & Kaho Abe - Eyebeam Art & Tech Center
2012 The Sublime and the Vulnerable - The Art of Carrie Mae Rose ~ Interview by Zoe Romano for Digicult Magazine
2011 Eye To Eyebeam: A Conversation With Carrie Mae Rose
2011 Radio Interview: Break Through Radio - Art Uncovered ~ Interview by Thomas Seely
SELECTED PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2015 Metalsmith, The Art of Disarming by Kim Cridler, pages 26-34, full image on page 31
2015 Computational Fashion: Topics in fashion and wearable technology, opposite contents & pp. 68-73
2014 Welcome to the third wave of wearable technology By Lieu Thi Pham, ZD Net
2013 This Week in Art Must-See Art Events: Light As A Feather Art F City, Paddy Johnson
2013 Eyebeam Residencies Redux Digital Art & Innovation
2013 This Week in Art Must-See Art Events: The Least Orthodox Goddess Art F City, Whitney Kimball
2013 The Least Orthodox Goddess by White Wall Magazine
2013 Gallery 151 and The Least Orthodox Goddess by Lori Forbus for LA Blog
2013 Picture This: The Goddess Kicks Ass by Oscar Laluyan for Artfuse
2013 Welcome to the Third Wave of Wearable Technology by Lieu Thi Pham for Smart Planet
2013 Here's a Preview of a Year at Eyebeam by Whitney Kimball in the L Magazine
2012 Alternative Histories: New York Art Spaces, 1960-2010, MIT Press, featured on page 272.
2011 Wearable Weapons on whokilledbambi.co.uk
2011 Examining the Culture of Militarization by Jennifer on Electric Foxy
2011 Scissor Sculptures: Carrie Mae Rose on ffffound.com
2011 Break Through Radio - Art Uncovered by Thomas Seely
2010 Red-Handed, re: D Parsons Alumni Magazine, online article
EDUCATION
2010 M.F.A. in Design & Technology, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2002 Bachelor of Arts, Prescott College, Prescott, AZ (aka Carrie Mae Kreyche)