Carrie Hott is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in

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. Hott’s multidisciplinary projects often take the form of multi-media installations that incorporate drawings, prints, books, sound, video or performance in sculptural settings. Her research-based practice focuses on technological mediation and systems that are difficult to access, visualize, or understand. Active as an arts administrator, curator, and educator, Hott is currently Term Associate Professor in the Design program in the department of Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco. She is a co-founder of the Royal None Such Gallery in Oakland, California, an alternative art and community event space; she also helped co-found the Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run exhibition space in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She is a former board member at Headlands Center for the Arts in

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Early life

Hott was born in

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, and grew up in Arizona, Colorado, and California. She received her BFA in Painting with a minor in Psychology from

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in 2003, and her MFA from the

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in 2007. In addition to her studio practice, Hott is a faculty member in the University of San Francisco’s department of Art + Architecture, is a visiting lecturer in the Art Practice Department at

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and in the past has been a Lecturer

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Exhibitions & Projects

Hott's work has been presented in exhibitions including Southern Exposure, the

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, the

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, the Museum of Capitalism, and the

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s in New Mexico. Hott was also part of the Bay Area Now 8 exhibition at San Francisco’s

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and her project, ''The Key Room'', is a permanent installation at the

Headlands Center for the Arts Headlands Center for the Arts hosts an internationally recognized artist-in-residence program, and interdisciplinary public programs. It is situated in a campus of artist-renovated military buildings in the Marin Headlands, in Marin County, Cali ...

. Hott has been an artist-in residence at Recology San Francisco and at

Mills College Mills College at Northeastern University in Oakland, California is part of Northeastern University's global university system. Mills College was founded as the Young Ladies Seminary in 1852 in Benicia, California; it was relocated to Oakland in ...

. In 2024 she was an artist-in-residence at the Center for Spaceflight Research at the University of California, Davis as part of the China Shop residency. She is currently working on a long-term web-based collaboration with The Lab, an experimental art and performance space in San Francisco’s Mission District. Additionally, Hott contributed to an essay and photo project in the latest Living Room Light Exchange publication: Rare Earth The Ground is Not Digital which was released October 2020.

Awards

Hott was a recipient of the 2017 Artadia Award in San Francisco, and was named one of 24 Artists to Watch in 2015 by ''Modern Painters Magazine''. Her work has been reviewed in ''Art Practical'', ''Artslant'', and ''Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art''.

References

External links

Official website
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