Carrera is a west coast artist and independent curator working in installation, mixed-media and painting.  Trained at Rutgers University, Carrera furthered her education at the Atlin Centre for the Arts in British Columbia, and was mentored by Philadelphia artist Dan Wittels, a protégé of Grace Hartigan. Carrera left the East Coast to pursue a Ph.D. in behavioral medicine in San Diego.  In 2002 Carrera changed careers to pursue visual art professionally.  Carrera was the recipient of a fellowship at the Atlin Centre for the Arts in British Columbia and nominated for the San Diego Art Prize as one of the “New Contemporaries” after she mounted a 4,000-square foot art installation, Museo du Profundo Mundo: Specimens and Renderings from the Carrera Expedition, exploring the world of museum collections, cabinets of curiosity and the role of the scientist/artist. Additional installations include the San Diego Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, Mesa College, , Grossmont College, The Monterey Museum, Portland’s Bldg 5, and the Newport Visual Arts Center, hosts for a mid-career retrospective supported by grants from the Ford Family Foundation and the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts.

Carrera’s installations and paintings often explore the nexus between science and art and humanity’s complex interactions with the natural world. Carrera currently resides and has a studio in Portland’s Northwest Marine ArtWorks.

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