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Carla Edwards (b. Illinois), lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her work examines popular iconography and Americana vernacular through the lens of sculpture, performance, drawing, and video. She received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Edwards is a recipient of the Socrates Emerging Artist Fellowship and was awarded the Lighthouse Works Public Art Commission in 2018. She has been an artist in residence and studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Smack Mellon, and The Fountainhead in Miami. Edwards has exhibited nationally and internationally most notably at The Studio Museum in Harlem, Crystal Bridges Museum, Artist Space, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Volta5, Basel Switzerland, The DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities, District of Colombia, Redline Arts, Denver, Charlie James Gallery and Night Gallery Los Angeles. Her work has been reviewed in The Washington Post, Boston Globe, Colorado Public Radio and Timeout Magazine. Her works are included in numerous private collections and the public collections of Vera Institute of Justice, JP Morgan Chase, ICA Miami and Crystal Bridges Museum.