Mary Ellen Carroll and Rebecca Matalon

Portrait of Mary Ellen Carroll. Image courtesy the artist, MEC, Studios. / Rebecca Matalon, Photo: Bria Lauren  Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live About Join artist Mary Ellen Carroll and CAMH Senior Curator, Rebecca Matalon, for a discussion related to themes about the exhibition Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People. Exhibition catalogues will be available for purchase at the program.  Tickets This program will be seated in the Brown Foundation Gallery and is free to attend. RSVP is recommended. Seating is limited and available on a first-come basis. We recommend arriving early.RSVPs will open to the public on April 1, 2026. RSVP About Mary Ellen Carroll The work of New York-based conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll (MEC, studios) engages the disciplines of architecture, public policy, film/media, and technology. Carroll’s body of work spans over four decades in a range of media that transcend genres. Fundamentally, the work investigates a single, fundamental question: What do we consider a work of art? It is dedicated to a social and political critique that explores the interactions of subjectivity, language, power, and knowledge.  Carroll is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including from the Guggenheim Foundation, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, American Academy in Berlin, Rockefeller Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, and most recently the American Academy in Rome. Carroll received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute Chicago (1989) where they studied time-based arts, filmmaking, and architectural history, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Colorado Boulder. Teaching, lecturing and public presentations on architecture, art, and public policy are an important part of Carroll’s work and have occurred at the DIA Art Foundation, Columbia University, American Academy in Berlin, Rice University, Yale University, among others. Carroll’s work is in numerous public and private collections in the US and abroad and has been exhibited at institutions including: the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich; the Renaissance Society, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Johann Jacobs Museum, Zurich; Prospect.3, New Orleans; Busan Biennial, South Korea; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; MoMA-PS1; MUMOK, Vienna; Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia University; Alserkal Avenue, Dubai; among other venues. This is the first major solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work. About Rebecca Matalon Rebecca Matalon is Senior Curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH), where she has organized exhibitions for artists Garrett Bradley, Mariah Garnett, Diane Severin Nguyen, Cauleen Smith, and Jordan Strafer, as well as the two-person exhibition, Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves (20...