Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2010 MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2000 BFA, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Teaching Experience
2021–25 Lecturer, Geffen Academy at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2020–21 Adjunct Instructor, Compton College, Compton, CA
2019 Adjunct Instructor, University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles, CA
2017–20 Teaching Artist, artworxLA, Los Angeles, CA
2009–10 Teaching Assistant, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2008–09 Teaching Assistant, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
2004–06 Course Director, SAE Expression College, Emeryville, CA
Related Experience
Lectures and Panels
2025 "W.W. Harmon’s Esoteric Manuscript," panel, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Hilma af Klint: An Artist for Our Times,” screening introduction, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
2022 “In Response—Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group,” lecture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Transcendental LA: Agnes Pelton, Dane Rudhyar, and the New Age in Los Angeles,” lecture, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
2020 “Hilma af Klint: Theosophist,” lecture, Ojai Valley Theosophical Lodge, Ojai, CA
2019 “The Complications of Hilma af Klint,” lecture, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
2018 The Unified Field, artist’s panel, Philosophical Research Society, LA, CA
More Light, artist’s talk, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
How to Get Up, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA (lecture with Lesley Moon)
Awards & Honors
2024 Professional Development Funds Award, UC-AFT Council on Professional Development
2024 Contributing Artist, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
2009 C.E. & Bertha M. Harsh Fellowship Recipient
Exhibitions
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2026 (forthcoming) Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
2025 (forthcoming) The Outer Planets, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Doubting Thomas, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Performances
2018 Out of Discord Comes the Most Beautiful Harmony, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Making Space, Art Gallery at Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA
2014 The Stars Down to Earth, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Tear Sounds, Madrone Lounge, San Francisco, CA
Plug-In Mash-Up, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Benefit Show, SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Fridge, Pio Pico, Los Angeles, CA
2023 California Sober, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Personal Contacts, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles, CA
Pineal Eye Infection, Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, CA
2019 Empedocles’ Ghost, KRAE syndikatet, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 The Unified Field, Hansell Art Gallery, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA
Dialectic of Being and Becoming, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
An Art Den, ODD ARK, Los Angeles, CA
2017 More Light, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
Hierophant, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania
Basilisk, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Psychopomp, Laband Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, LA, CA
2016 Thunderdome, Open House, Eagle Rock, CA
2014 God Will Not Have His Work Made Manifest by Cowards, Light & Wire Gallery (online)
ARTICULATE, Pop-Hop Books and Print, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Friday Night Lights & Sunday Afternoons, Summercamp Project, LA, CA
2010 Charnel House Scraps, Greene Park Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wet Paint 2, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
2009 Objct of My Confection, Objct Gallery, Pomona, CA
Leak of Contemporary Artists, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA
2008 Laundry List, Peggy Phelps Gallery, CGU, Claremont, CA
2007 Mythical Creatures, Hunter Street Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2005 South of Fruitvale Artists Group Show, Dutchboy Studios, Oakland, CA
Screenings
2007 Visual Music Marathon, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist
2020 Critique, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA, December 11
Curation
2009 We All Like Flowers, Peggy Phelps Gallery, CGU, Claremont, CA
Fairs
2024 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Publications
“The Spiritual in Art: An Interview with Maurice Tuchman,” East of Borneo, February 27, 2023
“Form Following Spirit: An Investigation of Recent and Near-Recent Metaphysical Art,” Speculative Arts Research 4, November 2023
“Blood,” LA Metaphysical Library Journal, Winter 2018
Quarterly Journal: No. 16, Art, LA Review of Books, December 2017
Bibliography
2023 Benson, Martin. “Not A Repeat, But A Rhyme with Michael Carter,” Concerning the Spiritual in Art, August 1
2022 Marble, Matthew. “Investigating The Invisible featuring Michael Carter,” The Hidden Present, November 19
Shea, Stephanie. “Episode 18 Listener Response with Artist Michael Carter,” Rejected Religion, February 6
2021 Swenson, Eric Minh. "Michael Carter: The Spiritual in Art," EMS Art Films, March 18
2017 Timmons, Mathew, and White, Ben. "Ep 55 Michael Carter & Victoria Prinz,” The People, Insert Blanc Press, October 15
Pagel, David. “The art of religion: Corny, cynical and everything in between,” Los Angeles Times, May 16
Miranda, Carolina A. “Aliens, abstraction and Thomas Kinkade: An L.A. exhibition summons the spiritual and the fantastical,” Los Angeles Times, May 12
2011 Cheh, Carol. “A Summer Camp with Cantaloupe Bowling?” LA Weekly, September 2-8
2009 Krickl, Tony. “Local CGU artists showcase their talent in many ways,” Claremont Courier, April 18