Andrea Carlson is a visual artist who works primarily on paper, creating painted and drawn surfaces with many mediums. Her practice addresses land and institutional spaces, decolonization narratives, and assimilation metaphors in film.
Carlson earned a BA from the University of Minnesota in 2003, and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design in 2005. Her work has been acquired by institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Denver Art Museum, CO; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. She participated in the 2022 Toronto Biennial of Art, and is the recipient of a 2008 McKnight Fellowship, a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Award, a 2021 Chicago Artadia Award, a 2022 United States Artists Fellowship, and a 2024 Creative Capital Award. Carlson is a co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago, an art space dedicated to the work of Native artists.
