Allen-Golder Carpenter
Biography
Installation View, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Water Memory, 2023
Born Allen-Golder Mullin Carpenter, 1999 in Washington DC, is a gender non-conforming interdisciplinary artist, designer, poet, author and activist. Their work as an artist serves to reconcile the various aspects of their identity as they relate themselves and the world around them.
Selected solo exhibitions include To Dream of Smoke, No Gallery, New York City, NY (forthcoming, 2024); Water Memory, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria (2023); Ghetto Body Surrogate / My Body My Song, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK (2022); Afotèz: Paper, Cotton, Stone./ SAMSARA , von Ammon CO, Washington D.C. (2022)
Selected group exhibitions and projects include Armory Off-SIte at the US Open, No Gallery, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing NY (forthcoming, 2023); NADA New York, No Gallery, New York, NY (2023); FOCUS GROUP 4, von Ammon Co, Washington D.C. (2023);Dwelling, White Columns (Online), New York, NY (2023); Pedagogy As Self, HOUSING, New York, NY(2023); 20/92, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA (2023); Before Black Had A Name, Shungu Gallery, Frederick, MD (2021); Unveiling Resistance, Galleries at CCBC Essex, Baltimore, MD (2021); February Install, Dupont Underground, Washington D.C. (2021)
Exhibitions
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Paulina Aumayr, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Thomas Supper
Systems of Subversion 27 Nov 2025 - 16 Jan 2026The group exhibition Systems of Subversion at Galerie Kandlhofer in Vienna brings together three artistic positions that do not illustrate freedom, but practice it, as an attitude and a collective experience. Paulina Aumayr, Allen-Golder Carpenter, and Thomas Supper work at the thresholds of their respective media, questioning social, cultural, and...Read more -
Focus On | Allen-Golder Carpenter - Water Memory
23 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024'A project exploring the idea of memory in its various forms, intersected with the human relationship to water as conduit and vessel for those forms. In this project I photographed my older brother and grandfather, interviewing the latter about his life and our family history. The overarching ideas are inspired...Read more
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