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Allen-Golder Carpenter (b. 1999, Washington DC), lives and works in Washington DC. Carpenter is a gender non-conforming interdisciplinary artist, designer, poet, and author whose work explores the multifaceted nature of identity and its interaction with the world, challenging our understanding of space by transforming social conventions into a form of architecture. Carpenter's work interrogates memory, systemic violence, and cultural erasure—especially as experienced by
Black communities in the United States, integrating various media, images and found objects to delve into the dynamic interplay between hip hop culture and the judicial system, censorship, and personal identity and the internet.
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS*
2025
Same Things Make Us Laugh Make Us Cry pt. 2 Witness act 1, Derosia, New York, New York
Sojourn, Schinkel Pavillon, curated by TICK TACK & 032c, Berlin, Germany*
Sojourn, TICK TACK, Antwerp, Belgium
Same Things Make Us Laugh, Make Us Cry, 032c Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Cost of Confinement: Cell 72 with Emmanuel Massillon, Harlesden High Street, London UK
YEAR13AT, Förderverein Aktuelle Kunst, Münster, Germany
2024
To Dream of Smoke, No Gallery, New York, New York
2023
Water Memory, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
Ghetto Body Surrogate / My Body My Song, Screw Gallery, Leeds, UK 2022Afotèz: Paper, Cotton, Stone./ SAMSARA , von ammon co, Washington D.C.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS*
2025
Systems of Subversion, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
Prison Times Flashback, Drop City Centre for Architecture & Design, Milan, Italy
Museum at Risk - Save M HKA, TICK TACK, M HKA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
I TRUST PAIN, Camden Art Centre, London, UK*
Sojourners, TICK TACK, Antwerp*
Polyphonic Views, Passage Art in the context of Spatial Festival at Funkhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany
In Media Res, Derosia, New York, New York Arrival Art Fair, North Adams, MA
To Be Seen By Heavy Eyes, Silke Lindner, New York, New York
I Don’t Want A Nation of Thinkers, I Want A Nation of Workers, Mery Gates, Brooklyn, NewYork
Prison Times: Spatial Dynamics of Penal Environments, Drop City Centre for Architecture & Design, Milan, Italy
Content Industrial Complex, 032c Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2024
PRIVATE ACCESS, TICK TACK, Antwerp, Belgium
Nexus, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany
STREET SPACE BANGER curated by TICK TACK, Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany
2023
NADA, No Gallery, Miami, Florida
Very Friendly curated by Agnes Gryczkowska, HOUSE, Berlin, Germany
Armory Off-Site at the US Open, No Gallery, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Queens, New York
NADA, No Gallery, New York, New York
FOCUS GROUP 4, von ammon co, Washington D.C. Dwelling, White Columns (Online), New York, New York Pedagogy as Self, HOUSING, New York, New York 20/92, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2022
Before Black Had A Name, SHUNGU, Frederick, Maryland
Unveiling Resistance, Galleries at CCBC Essex, Baltimore, Maryland 2021February Install, Dupont Underground, Washington D.C.
RESIDENCIES
2025 Artist-in-Residence, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna Artist-in-Residence, TICK TACK Antwerp
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Sojourners, TICK TACK, Antwerp
DIRECTED FILMS
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Black Cell |
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North Sea Calls |
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Black Noise |
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Sojourn |
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Black Internet |
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Alive In The Living Room |
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Kites |
PERFORMANCES
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2025 |
Jazz Window, ConcertSeries1, Landhus Saal, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Sojourn, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany |
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Thug Cube, Drop City Centre for Architecture & Design, Milan, Italy |
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KIDZ Publication Launch, Printed Matter, New York, New York |
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Sojourn w/ Blackhaine, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany |
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THIS IS NOT AN OPERA, w/ Richie Culver, Galerie Kandlhofer (off-site), Vienna, Austria |
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Dreams and Nightmares, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria |
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My Body My Song, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
LECTURES & TALKS
2025 Visiting Artist Program, New York University Tisch School of the Arts
Subject vs. Environment, Kunstakademie Münster, Germany
2022 Afotèz: Paper, Cotton, Stone. In conversation with Daniel Adegbesan, von ammon co, Washington D.C.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Allan Gardner “Sojourn” Emergent Magazine”, August 20
Eddy Frankel, “‘My biggest fear’: the artist spending three days banged up in a jail cell” The Guardian, June 5
Thomas McMullan, “What to See During London Gallery Weekend 2025” Frieze, June 3 Ben Luke, Louisa Buck, “London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows”
The Art Newspaper, June 3
Jard Lerebours, “Black Internet: Allen-Golder Carpenter and the Parable of the White Folding Chair”, 032c, March 18
2024 Fionn Adamian, “‘Streetspace Banger’ at Kunsthalle Recklinghausen”, Berlin Art Link, Sept. 11
Mekala Rajagopal, ““You Can’t Teach Sauce”: Allen-Golder, Carpenter Examines Rap Culture at No Gallery, Interview Magazine, March 22
Jard Lerebours, Allen-Golder Dreams of Smoke”, Office Magazine, March 22 Annalisa Fabbrucci, “Conceptual Audacity”, Nasty Magazine, March
Mary Jones, “Allen-Golder Carpenter: Winter in America”, Two Coats of Paint, March 12 2023 Jard Lerebours, “Allen Golder Wears Black Foamposites”, Office Magazine, June 8
Mark Jenkins, “In the galleries: Artists imagine red in images from brutal to banal” The Washington Post, May 26