b. 1993, Flint, Michigan, USA 

Drake Carr was born in 1993 in Flint, MI, and currently lives and works in New York City, NY.  Carr explores performance, persona, and spectatorship through drawings, cutout figures, and architectural fragments that flirt with theatricality. Inspired by the overlapping genres of fashion illustration and society portraiture, he works with his subjects to style and pose them in dynamic ways, often staging them within collaboratively designed sets. In all of his work, Carr paints a portrait of the communities he moves through that is simultaneously humorous and earnest, exaggerated and true-to-life.

EDUCATION

2015 BFA from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Hollywood Walk-ins, Megan Mulrooney, Los Angeles, CA 2024 Menswear, Fierman, New York, NY Les Walk-ins, Mariposa Drive, Paris, FR 2023 Housecalls, Artists Space at the Armory Art Show, New York, N Walk-ins, New York Life Gallery, New York, NY 2022 Service, Fierman & Situations Galleries, New York, NY Outlets and Turn-ons, Secret Project Robot Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2019 Seeing Someone, 0-0 LA, Los Angeles, CA 2018 GULP, The Hole, New York, NY 2017 The Hole, Volta Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

2017 Public Fun, 00-LA, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Happy, USA, Happyfun Hideaway, Brooklyn, NY

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023 Formal Occasion with Pvssyheaven, Happyfun Hideaway, Brooklyn, NY 2021 Manifestations with Pvssyheaven, Happyfun Hideaway, Brooklyn, NY 2020 Neighborhood Watch with Pvssyheaven, Happyfun Hideaway, Brooklyn, N

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Friends with the Owner, curated by Jeanette Hayes, Library 180, New York, NY 2025 American Faggot Party, Twenty Summers, Provincetown, MA A Chance Encounter With a Sewing Machine, Hesse Flatow, NY NY  Another Man’s Treasure, Mariposa Drive at Alderfer Antiques, Aspen, CO  Identity Held In The Light, National Arts Club, NY NY 2024 Artists Recipes, Marvin Gardens, Brooklyn, NY Dad Bods, The Hole, NY NY 2022 Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, Nicodim, NY, NY 2021 Much Louder Than Before, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA So Gathering Seems Essential, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY 

2019 Aveena Gallagher’s Free Sale, 22 E Broadway (Red Bull Arts), NY, NY Scarecrow Show, Green Thumb Farm, Water Mill, NY The Sun Never Sets on Caketopia, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY 

2018 A State of Infinite Division, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, Canada What’s Up 2.0 (The Americas), Park Crescent, London, United Kingdom  Got It For Cheap, The Hole, New York, NY Prick Up Your Ears, Karma International, Los Angeles, CA Post Analog Painting II, The Hole, New York, NY Got It For Cheap, Athens, Greece

2017 Ocotillo, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA 

2016 Velvet Ropes, 86 Forsyth, New York, NY

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2018 Superhuman, group show at Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY 

RESIDENCIES

2025 Megan MulrooneyHollywood Walk-ins, March-April 2024 Mariposa Drive for Les Walk-ins, February-April

2023 New York Life Gallery for Walk-ins, January-February

2019 0-0 LA, August-September

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ONLINE PROJECTS

Candy. Issue 15. “Candy Darling.” Pages 250, 251. January 2025. W Magazine. Volume 6: The Art Issue. “Drawn This Way.” Davis, Jensen. Interview and artwork. Pages 110-117. November 2024. Cultured. Nov/Dec/Jan 2024/2025 Issue. Young Artists List 2024. November 2024. Art21. Drake Carr’s Favorite Thing. Dir. Yu-Chieh Chung, Andrea. April 2024. https://art21.org/watch/new-york-close-up/drake-carrs-favorite-thing/ Agenda. Issue 3. Cover art. Pages 59 ,60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65. January 2024. Vogue (online). Holgate, Mark. Drake Carr Is Taking His Walk Ins Artist Residency All The Way To Paris. February 2024. Harpers Bazaar France. Interview. Issue No. 552. p 65. November 2023. Vogue. Yaeger, Lynn. “How Rising Art Star Drake Carr Gets ‘The Feel Of Fashion.’” Interview with Drake Carr. Pages 83, 86. October 2023 Art in America. Summer 2023 issue. Cover artwork. “Masked Marvels.” Battaglia, Andy. May 2023. d’Repubblica. Vol. 2. No. 1327. Cover artwork. Galli, Marta. “Drake Carr & Ethan James Green: I volti di New York.” Pages 88-91. “Fine Line.” Pages 116-129. February 2023. Artforum. Vol. 61, Issue 6. “Napkin Drawing” i-D. Blythe, Finn: “The artist creating live portraits of his muses.” Online, January 24, 2023 Surface Magazine. “Drake Carr: Walk-ins.” Online, January 2023 Interview Magazine. Jackson, Tony. Interview with Drake Carr. Online, August 24, 2022. Whitewall Magazine. Huff, Andrew. Interview with Drake Carr. Online, August 19, 2022 Artforum.Vol. 60, No. 5. Díaz, Devan. “Openings: Drake Carr.” Interview with Drake Carr. Pages 141, 142, 143, 144. January 1, 2022. Big Joe (novel) by Sam Delany, Inpatient Press, February 2020, (illustrations by artist) Malibu Mondays (publication) by Linda Simpson, Façadomy New York, February 2020 (illustrations by artist) Butterfly Book (publication) published by Verluxe LLC, November 2018, p 28-35 “Closing Ceremony.” Samepaper Magazine, Issue 2, Pages 6, 7, 11, 147, 148 UOOYA Zine. Issue 2. “Gulp,” p 48-63 Editorial Magazine. Issue 17. Whittick, Olivia. p 12-15.