Member Preview | Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People

Members at Contemporary Art Museum Houston (CAMH) Member Appreciation Reception, 2025. Photo: Tasha Gorel. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live About In appreciation of your support as a Member of CAMH, we are pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People.Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People is the first exhibition to survey the work of the acclaimed artist. Focusing on a selection of key projects spanning more than four decades, the exhibition charts Carroll’s engagement with questions of agency and identity, as well as the artist’s exploration of urgent issues of our time, including environmental sustainability, social justice, immigration, and urban legislation. DJ set by Sean David Bradley, aka DJ Cold One, co-founder of Ice House Radio.For the Members Only Code to RSVP and other questions regarding Memberships please contact Lorielle Anderson, Development and Membership Manager, at landerson@camh.org or 713.284.8264. 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 m...