Artwork
The Gray Album
Voids

Paradise
10-Step Art Career
Perfect Disaster

Words
Three Way Tie for Last
Everything Must Go

Contact High

Exhibitions
Daniel Cooney Fine Art
St Anthony's Basement
Lobo Del Mar
Vox Populi
Feature Inc

Bronx Museum
Envoy
Kathleen Cullen
Group exhibitions

Bio
CV
Shows
Links
Contact


Education
MFA Brooklyn College, 2006
MSW Columbia University, 2024

Representation
Daniel Cooney Fine Arts, New York, New York

Grants, Awards and Fellowships
2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 
2013 Workshop Grant, Millay Colony 
2012 Printmaking Residency, Gowanus Studio Space 
2011 Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant
Millay Colony Residency Fellowship
2010 Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts
Artist in Residence, Wilson College, PA

Solo Exhibitions
2024 The Love Parade, Daniel Cooney Fine Arts, New York
2022 Lobo Del Mar, Philadelphia
2019 St. Anthony’s Basement, Brooklyn
2012 The Perfect Disaster, Vox Populi, Philadelphia 
2011 I See You In My Head, Feature Inc., New York
2009 Excerpt, Envoy Enterprises, New York
2006 3-Way Tie For Last, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, NY 

Group Exhibitions 
2024
‘I’ll Be Your Mirror’, Mighty Real/ Queer Detroit, Detroit
●  Anton Art Center, Mount Clemens
●  Hatch Art, Hamtramck
●  The Carr Center
2023
Feed Me, Lobo Del Mar, Philadelphia 
2019
Adam’s Nest, Provincetown, MA 
Velvet Ropes NYC, Sargent’s Daughters, New York
2018
Carl Ferrero and Molly Crabapple, The Owl’s Head, Brooklyn 
Velvet Ropes CPH, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen 
2017
GIFC, 0-0 LA, Los Angeles 
Velvet Ropes, NADA New York
2016
Like Smoke, Equity Gallery, New York 
2014
Let’s Go Let Go, 33 Orchard Gallery, New York 
Vantage Point, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY 
Reimagining Rosa Parks, Prince George’s College, MD 
Expanding Mode, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY 
2013
Dot.–Dash, Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn 
Untitled, Gallery Gris, Hudson, NY 
Bushwick Film Festival, Brooklyn 
2012
Up Against It, Munch Gallery, New York 
NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY 
2011
The Bronx Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts 
No Longer the Property Of, Lost Coast Culture Machine, Fort Bragg, CA 
View of Outer Space from an Aquarium, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn 
2010
Summer Camp, Exile, Berlin 
Tom of Finland and then some, Feature Inc., New York 
Tide Pool, Sara Meltzer Projects, New York
Smoke & Mirrors, University of Oklahoma
Artists in Residence, Wilson College, PA 
Cool & Collected, Kenise Barnes, Larchmont, NY 
Power to the People, Feature Inc., New York 
2009
What’s Bin Did and What’s Bin Hid, 106 Green, Brooklyn 
Arte3, Palazzo Mazzancolli, Terni, Italy 
Artists Who Use Text to Say Nice Things, 206 Rivington via Aaron Krach, NYC
The Gaze, The Production, Amsterdam 
2008
Artist as Publisher, Center for Books Arts, New York 
The Other Side, 58 Gallery, Jersey City 
Everything Must Go, Flux Factory, Queens
Dream Therapy, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York 
2007
Aporia, LACE/Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 
Intercourse, Platform Gallery, Seattle
Works On Paper, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts 
2006
The Mind/Body Problem, Artists Space, New York 
Metaphysics of Youth, Artenova / FuoriUso, Pescara, Italy 
Aporia, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York 
American Seven, WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA 
Repeat After Me, Flux Factory, Queens 

Bibliography

Press

Artforum, September 2024
Linda Simpson. REVIEWS, NEW YORK: Carl Ferrero.
www.artforum.com/events/linda-simpson-carl-ferrero-daniel-cooney-fine-art-2024-557759

Filthy Dreams, Dec. 12, 2016.
Danielle Wu. “Blow by Blow: ‘Like Smoke’ At Equity Gallery,” review. https://filthydreams.wordpress.com

The New York Times, July 30, 2014
Julie Klam. “Finding Art That Speaks to You.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/garden/finding-art-that-speaks-to-you.html?smid=pl-share

BRIC Arts Blog, Friday, June 21, 2013.
Joe Wolin. “Short List Curator.”
https://archive.bricartsmedia.org/short-list-curator-joseph-wolin  

Frieze, August 2010.
Sam Williams. “Summer Camp,” review.
https://exilegallery.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Exile_Frieze_SummerCampsm.pdf

Art 21 blog, September 2010.
Ali Fitzgerald.
"Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile,” review.
http://magazine.art21.org/2010/09/02/head-shoplost-horizon-at-exile/

A Shaded View of Fashion by Diane Pernet, July 2010.
Sameer Reddy. “Lost Horizon and Head Shop at Exile Gallery's Summer Camp,” review.
https://exilegallery.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Exile_SummerCamp_DianePernet_sm.pdf

ARTnews, September 2007.
Michelle Falkenstein. "City to Sudents: We're Sorry."
National News, p.72
Reproduction.

The Seattle Times, February 2007.
Shelia Farr. “The paintings are only part of the show,” review.
https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/the-paintings-are-only-part-of-the-show/

Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 15, 2007.
Regina Hackett. “‘Intercourse’ looks at the way we get in touch,” review.
https://www.seattlepi.com/entertainment/article/intercourse-looks-at-the-ways-we-get-in-touch-1231226.php 

The Stranger, “Recommended Art Events.” The Stranger (Seattle), February 15, 2007.

Bonzano, Paolo. “Metaphysics of Youth,” review. Exibart (exibart.it), May 15, 2006.

Buiso, Gary. “Too Hot to Handle.” Reproduction and interview. Brooklyn Courier-Life, May 11, 2006.

Colasante, Francesca. “Flash Art News,” Flash Art Italia, May 2006.

Framework, May 2006.
Marco Enrico Giacomelli, “Canons of Youth,” review.

MetroActive, San Jose, California, Sept. 6, 2006.
Michael S. Gant. “By the Numbers,” review.

Kennedy, Randy. “Brooklyn Art Exhibition Comes Down Amid Protest.” The New York Times, May 9, 2006.

Time Out New York, Issue 551: April 20–26, 2006.
Elisabeth Kley. “Aporia,” review.

The Brooklyn Papers, June 3, 2006.
Kunztman, Gersh. “You call this art.”

The Brooklyn Rail, May 2006.
Marcus, David. “Aporia,”

The Village Voice, May 17, 2006.
Matamas, Nick. “C is for Censored,”

Rhodes, David. “Art, Censorship and Courage.” AIGA Journal of Design, May 23, 2006.

Robinson, Andrew Cornell. “Serial Misadventures,” Gay City News, July 13–19 2006.

Rymar, Yukari. “Just a Thesis Show.” Reproduction, interview. Brooklyn Rail, June 2006.

Tema Celeste, “News.” Tema Celeste 115, May–June 2006.

The New York Times, February 27, 2005.
Zeidner, Lisa. “Have You Lost Weight?”

Publications

Carl Ferrero, Words and Pictures, 2025. Billy Miller, ed. STH Press, New York. (Forthcoming).

Carl Ferrero. If you don’t believe me, I don’t really care because I know what really happened: Collected writing, 2025. Superfly Press, New York. (Forthcoming).

Come Frute, Come Yo. Philadelphia: Charlie Welch, 2022. https://charliewelch.com/Come-Fruta-Como-Yo

Exquisite Corpse. Philadelphia: Charlie Welch, 2020.
https://charliewelch.com/  

A Queer Anthology of Sickness. 2019. Porter, Richard, ed. Pilot Press, London.

A Queer Anthology of Rage. Porter, Richard, ed.
Pilot Press, London.
https://magazine.tank.tv/tank/2019/01/raging-queer

“Carl Ferrero: Words & Pictures.” Tarpaulin Sky Press Magazine. August 2015
https://tskymag.com/2015/08/carl-ferrero/

LIT Magazine, The New School, New York. Cover artwork, Spring 2012.

BOMBblog, reproduction. bombsite.com, February 2012.

"Bronx Calling", catalog. Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2011.

Stigle, Elinor. “Artist in Residence,” Claph Magazine, December 2010.

Heffernan, Virginia. The Medium, New York Times Magazine, May 30, 2010.

Albo, Mike. “Born Knowing,” reproduction. Spankzine Number 9, illustration 2010.

FFFFOUND! ffffound.com, reproduction. February 2010.

Proietti, Leonardo. Arte3, catalog essay. Terni, Italy: Cavourart. 2010

Byrum, Greta (ed). The Disarmory Newspaper. New York: The db Foundation, 2008.

Onnen, Serge (ed). Drawings On Writing. New York and Atlanta: J & L Books, 2008.
https://www.drawingsonwriting.org

Miller, Billy (ed). No Milk Today, Number 1, 2008

Byrum, Greta and Daou, Annabel. Impossibility Made Easy, catalog essay. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Contemporary Editions, 2007.

Hudson, editor. Untitled publication (Red Square). New York: Feature Inc., 2007.
https://specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?object_id=15924

Alessandrelli, Irina Zucca and Fassi, Luigi. Metaphysics of Youth, catalog essay. Pescara, Italy: Fuori Uso, 2006.

Byrum, Greta and Daou, Annabel. Aporia Heuristics, catalog. New York: Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, 2006.

Duckworth, David. American Seven, catalog essay. San Jose: WORKS/San Jose.

Albo, Mike. The Underminer, illustrations. New York: Bloomsbury USA, 2005.

Duckworth, David. Queer Packaging/Body Commodities, catalog essay. San Jose: WORKS/San Jose.

 

They're Winning, 2007
Watercolor, painted paper flags attached with string and pins;
4 parts, 40 x 50 1/2"