Carrie Moyer

Carrie Moyer is a renowned painter, writer, and co-founder of the public art project Dyke Action Machine! She currently serves as a Professor and Director of the MFA Program in Studio Art at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Moyer has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe, including solo museum shows at the Tang Museum (2013) and the Worcester Museum of Art (2012), and was featured in the 2017 Whitney Biennial. Her work spans painting, agitprop, and graphic design, often exploring themes of feminist art, queer identity, and political activism.

Moyer attended Pratt Institute (BFA), the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (MFA), and the Skowhegan School of Art. Her research interests include contemporary painting, feminist art, queer art, political art, agitprop, graphic design, and the history of acrylic paint, abstraction, modernism, and painting.

Her artistic practice intertwines with cultural critique, drawing from 20th-century abstract movements and pop culture to create socially engaged works. Articles by Moyer have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, and The Brooklyn Rail, focusing on feminist art, abstraction, and political themes. She has received significant recognition through awards from the Guggenheim and Joan Mitchell Foundations, Anonymous Was a Woman, and Creative Capital.

Moyer’s teaching at Yale and Rutgers Universities, alongside her leadership at Hunter College, reflects her commitment to mentoring emerging artists. Her studio practice, marked by vibrant acrylic and glitter works, is complemented by decades of activism through Dyke Action Machine!—a collaboration with Sue Schaffner that subverted mainstream advertising with lesbian imagery.