About
Carter Shocket (he/him) is a trans and queer interdisciplinary artist from North Carolina living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work includes woven sculpture, installation, tapestry, and other process-based textile art.
Statement
My work explores queer theory and trans experience through woven sculpture, tapestry, and installation. I'm interested in how transness breaks what we think is fixed, and what can form in the openings of those breaks. I think about those formations as the "trans supernatural."
I create sculptures of non-linear timelines, clocks based on the half-life of Testosterone, and calendars made from communal care schedules. I also love to explore mythology and memory in my work, and I create tapestries depicting transformation, apparitions, and rebirth.
By making physical art about my trans experience of life, I make real those moments of the trans supernatural, and connect myself to my community in the past, present, and future.
Interviews
May 2025 - Studio Visit - Carter Shocket, Art Hag NYC - Read
"I think weaving is so beautiful, the idea of all these strips coming together to create a whole cloth, just never gets old for me," he muses. "I find it to be so inspiring, beautiful, and a reminder of how I want my life to be in terms of found family and community."
March 2024 - Textile Arts Center AIR Feature Carter Shocket - Read
"I have an understanding of experiences that happen in my life that are outside the realm of society. These kinds of magical experiences I think are what connect a lot of trans people who don’t actually know each other."
Studio Visits
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