Kamari Carter and Faith Holland join Microscope Gallery

Microscope Gallery is very pleased to announce the representation of artists Kamari Carter and Faith Holland, following their respective solo shows “Phantom Power” and “Death Drive” at the gallery this Spring.

Kamari Carter’s (b. 1992) practice - which primarily includes sound, video, installation, and performance - confronts the viewer with the reality and urgency of current threats to our society, as well as those in our history that many would prefer to ignore or forget. Driven by the question of whose voices are heard, Carter circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques as well as found objects to investigate systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance.

Carter’s use of broadcasting technologies, magnetic tape, and other elements in his sound installations find new ways to bring to the forefront a medium that - perhaps more subliminally than others - influence our psychologies providing a physical manifestation to its ephemerality.

Prior to his solo exhibition at Microscope, his work has been exhibited at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, Providence, RI; Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ; Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY; Wave Hill, New York; Fridman Gallery, New York; and Automata Arts, Los Angeles, among others. His work has been featured in publications including Artnet, Flash Art, Precog Magazine, and Whitewall, among others. Carter holds a BFA in Music Technology from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University.

Faith Holland's work presents the unusual blending of the digital and the corporeal, the visual and the haptic, the timeless and the transient, solemnity and humor, in works across varied mediums - including sculpture, video, animated GIFs, performance, digital and net art  - that often focus on gender, intimacy, and our relationships to technology. In her recent works, Holland also addresses the environmental impact of our discarded personal devices, and proposes speculative solutions including machine learning, among others.

Her work is currently on view in the exhibition “Shouldn’t You Be Working” 100 Years of Working from Home” at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Musuem, East Lansing, MI. Prior to her solo exhibition at Microscope, her work has previously exhibited at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, TRANSFER, New York, NY; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA; TRANSFER, Los Angeles, CA; L’Unique, Caen, France; NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, DAM Gallery, Berlin, Germany, and Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, among others.

Her work has been discussed in Artforum, Elephant, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Sunday Times UK, The Observer, and numerous other print and online publications. Awards and residencies include Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Harvestworks, and a 2021 New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant. Faith Holland holds a BA in Media Studies from Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY and a MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY. She lives and works in New York, NY.