Education
2007 MFA - Sculpture, California College of the Arts
2000 BS - Visual Arts with Distinction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA - Psychology with Distinction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1998 Art History, Painting, Italian language, Istituto Lorenzo de' Medici Florence, Italy
Continuing Education
2022 Artist Working Group, Andrew Simonet, ArtistsU (online)
2022 Wearing All the Hats: Professional Practices for Visual Artists (online)
2018 Blacksmithing 101, Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum
2010 Introduction to Machine Woodworking, Cabinet & Furniture Technology, Palomar College
2010 Welding & Metal Fabrication, San Dieguito Academy ROP Program
Selected Exhibitions
•denotes solo show
2023 A Necessary Departure San Diego International Airport, San Diego, California. Curator: Daniel Dennert
2022 Syntax Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, California. Curator: Michelle Montjoy
Small Acts: The Craft of Subversion City Gallery, San Diego City College, California. Curators: Kerianne Quick & Adam John Manley
2021 In Good Company Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, California
2018 *THIS Hill Street Country Club & Linksoul Lab, Oceanside, California. Curator: Dinah Poellnitz
*Curious Objects Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, California
2017 Rooted Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California. Curator: Yevgeniya Mikhailik
Arsenal Arts + Literature Library, Madison, Wisconsin
2017 Juried Biennial Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California. Jurors: Yevgeniya Mikhailik & Ginger Shulick Porcella
2016 2016 Southern California/Baja Biennial San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, California. Juror: Anthony Graham
Unrest Hill Street Country Club with Linksoul Lab, Oceanside, California. Curator: Dinah Poellnitz
You Can’t Take It With You Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
2011 Summer Salon Series San Diego Art Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
Birds + Bees Linksoul Lab, Oceanside, California
2009 The Art Studio as a Laboratory: Invitation to Collaboration California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
2008 The Water Project Thoreau Center Gallery, The Presidio, San Francisco, California
Admirans Upstairs at the Market Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 Look Forward to Seeing It: Annual Juried Exhibition The LAB, San Francisco, California
Through the Eyes of Strangers Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, Oregon
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California
Remnants II, Juried Exhibition Cellspace Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Place, Space, Location P. Long and S.Pollack Art Community Experiment, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Copenhagen Alternative Art Fair 2006 Koh-i-Noor Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 Insight East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2003 Scapes Berliner Kunstprojekt, Berlin, Germany
Translatability Broadway Gallery, New York, NY & Berliner Kunstprojekt, Berlin, Germany
Teaching
2016 - 2017 Lecturer - California State University, San Marcos, California
Visual Arts Fundamentals
2014 - 2017 Instructor - MiraCosta College, Oceanside, California
2D Design & Color
3D Design
2009-2016 Instructor - Palomar College, San Marcos, California
2D Design & Composition
3D Design
Introduction to Art
History of Art II: Survey of Western Art
History of Modern Art
Sculpture I & II
Residencies and Workshops
2006 Contemporary Art History Lecture Series with Rose Shakinovsky, San Francisco, California
2004 South African Workshop of Cultural Interchange & Natural History, Johannesburg & Northern Province, South Africa
2003 Resident Artist, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
2002 South African Workshop of Cultural Interchange, Cape Town, South Africa
2000 Resident Artist, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine
1999 Resident Artist, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
1998 Resident Artist, La Cipressaia, Montagnana, Italy
Awards
2017 Juror’s Choice Award, 2017 Juried Biennial, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2017 Peoples' Choice Award, 2nd Place, 2017 Juried Biennial, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California
Bibliography
2018 San Diego Union-Tribune, “The Irresistibly Curious Art of Carrie Minikel” May 31, 2018
2016 Modern Luxury, San Diego, California “Curated Up-and-Comers” December 2016
2006 North County Times, San Diego, CA “For Oceanside Couple, Memorial is Interactive Art”, May 21
2006 Artseen Journal, London, England ; Florence, Italy “Please Touch”, January issue
2004 KTLA News, segment documenting “Fence Memorial” in Oceanside, California
2004 North County Times, San Diego, CA “Memorial Grows in Oceanside”, Nov. 19th
2003 Berliner Morgenpost, “Nuz Bu Leckbrei” Ein Touch von Trodelmarkt: Kunstler aus Berlin und New York im Kunstprojekt, July 13th Berlin, Germany