Lawrence Carroll

Who is Lawrence Carroll?

Lawrence Carroll is an American painter born to George and Mary Carroll in Melbourne Australia. He moved to Santa Monica, California with his parents and older brother Ronald in 1958. In 1960 his family relocated to Newbury Park, a suburb located 45 minutes north of Los Angeles. He attended Newbury Park high school and later worked as a chef to pay for his studies at Moorpark Junior College and then later the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he studied art on a full scholarship. In 1984 Carroll moved to New York city from Los Angeles with his own family . In 1988 he had his first solo exhibition of his paintings in New York city. In 1989 he was invited by Harald Szeemann as one of 9 young American artist to participate in Szeemans international exhibition Einleuchten at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg Germany alongside international artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman and others. In 1992 he was invited by Jan Hoet to participate in documenta IX in Kassel, Germany. In the early stage of his career Carroll was often invited to participate with the curatorial team Collins and Milazzo in NYC. In 1994 he participated once again with Udo Kittlemann in his exhibition "The state of things" in the Kolnischer Kunstverein in Koln, Germany. Later in 1995 Carroll exhibited in the Guggenheim Museums exhibition "Material Imagination" in NYC. In 2000 he participated in "Panza, legacy of a collector" at MOCA in Los Angeles. In 2005 he participated in 50 years of documenta, in Kassel Germany. In 2007 and 2008 he had solo museum exhibitions at Hotel des Arts in Toulon France and at the Museo Correr in Venice Italy.