Carl Grauer

Grauer explores the construction of identity, and how to memorialize objects and individuals through a contemporary documentarian approach to painting. Examples of the present becoming the past so quickly, he focuses on the documentation of time, memory, and imagination and how he may occupy the past, present, and future through these aspects. He is interested in the observation of that evolution of time and how it affects the artifice of the presentation of self, and finally, how by creating a painting, the art acquires an identity and timeline of its own.

Grauer has garnered success showing work internationally, including being awarded residencies at Saltonstall, Jentel, Blue Mountain Artist Residency, and shortlisted for the Wells Art Contemporary Award. Grauer has exhibited with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters at the Mall Galleries in London and the Salmagundi Club in NYC. He is showing with several galleries throughout the Hudson Valley and continues his practice of art and happiness.

Master of Fine Arts, Medical and Biological Illustration, University of Michigan
Bachelor of Arts, Biology, University of Kansas,

Solo Exhibitions:
2022 120 MINUTES, Mildred I. Washington Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2019 The Lavender Temple of Their Most Fabulous, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 Recollections, Point Gallery, Denver, CO

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 All Figured Out, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023 Qu(i)e(t)er Interiors, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2023 Window, Table, Mirror, Stairs, Bed, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2022 Body Beautiful II, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021 Fragmented Time and Space, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
2021 TIMELAPSE, Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY
2021 Who Really Cares?, The Samuel Dorksy Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2021 Sunrise/Sunset, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY
2021 88th Annual HHAA Juried Exhibition, Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT
2021 Up Close and Personal, The Art Effect at the Trolley Barn, Poughkeepsie, NY
2020 TIME, Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY
2020 INTERIORS, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA
2020 Providence Art Club National Juried Show, Providence, RI
2020 Margins, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2019 Body Beautiful II, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2019 FROM MEMORY, Queen City 15 Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2018 Lights Up!, Queen City 15, ...