Carrie E. A. Scott, b.1979, is an American/English

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, Gallery Director,

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and art writer living in

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Early life

Scott was born in

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, England and moved to

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. She went to Greenwich High School, then attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She did a Master's in Art History at the

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in Seattle, WA.

Career

Scott was Director of Nicole Klagbsrun Gallery, New York, where she worked with artists such as Beth Campbell,

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, Adam McEwen, and Storm Tharp. Prior to that, Scott was curator of the Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University's Lee Center for the Arts, Director of the James Harris Gallery. In 2008 Scott established her own company that is an art consultancy, gallery and curatorial endeavour. She produces and curates exhibitions that exist within and beyond the walls of the traditional gallery space From January 2010 until January 2020 she collaborated with Nick Knight's SHOWstudio as the Director of the SHOWstudio Shop. In 2017, Scott appeared as a presenter on ''The Art Show'', a series on

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. She is a Nominator for the Prix Pictet award. In 2018, she curated the largest independent photography exhibition at the Store x 180 Strand in London. It featured some 470 photographs, 340 of which were from

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's Spectrum. In 2020, she and David Hill co-curated Tête-à-Têtes: West African Portraiture from Independence into the 21st Century. In addition to her curating art exhibitions, Scott is also an arts writer.

References

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