Caroline Burton (she/her b. Detroit, Michigan) received her MFA in painting and sculpture from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers and a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art. Her process-driven work draws on her Finnish heritage, the Bauhaus, architectural and agricultural forms, film, and elements of chance for inspiration. Recent solo exhibitions include Obey the Moon at 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY and The Back of the Moon, a traveling exhibition at Murray State University, Murray, KY, and LHUCA, Lubbock, TX. Burton’s work has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY; Garage Gallery, Beacon, NY; Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY; Accola Griefen Gallery, New York; PDX Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Real Form Project Space, New York; New Jersey City University, NJ; Johnson State College, VT; Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ, Cooper Gallery, Jersey City, NJ; and Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH. Burton was recently included in Primeval Ground at Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY. Her work has been featured in museum exhibitions including Thread Hijack at the Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ; New Directions in Fiber Art at the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; The Feminine Mystique at the Jersey City Museum, NJ; and Pencil Pushed at the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts and elsewhere. She is the recipient of three New Jersey State Council on the Arts grants, three Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation grants, and a Pollock-Krasner fellowship. Burton has attended residencies at Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts. Selected collections include the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Montclair Art Museum, NJ; the Morris Museum, NJ; the New Jersey State Museum, NJ; and the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ. Internationally, she is represented in the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderno, DR. Burton lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.

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