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Carrie Hott is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator based in Oakland, California.

Background
Hott’s multidisciplinary projects often take the form of multi-media installations that incorporate drawings, prints, books, sound, video or performance in sculptural settings. Deeply informed by a self-described “roving research practice,” her work documents and dissects technological systems such as artificial lighting, the electrical grid, web-based platforms and the Internet itself.

Hott is a co-founder of Oakland’s Royal NoneSuch Gallery, an alternative art and community event space; she also helped co-found the Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run exhibition space in Bushwick, New York. Active as an arts administrator, curator, and educator, Hott is an assistant professor at the University of San Francisco and is also on the board at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California.

Early Life
Hott was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, and grew up in Arizona, Colorado, and California. She received her BFA in Painting with a minor in Psychology from Arizona State University in 2003, and her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007.

In addition to her studio practice, Hott is a faculty member in the University of San Francisco’s department of Art + Architecture and is a lecturer in the Art Practice Department at UC Berkeley.

Exhibitions
Hott's work has been presented in exhibitions across the country, including Southern Exposure, the Oakland Museum of California, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, the Museum of Capitalism, and the International Symposium on Electronic Arts in New Mexico. Hott was also part of the Bay Area Now 8 exhibition at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and her project, The Key Room, is a permanent installation at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Hott has been an artist-in residence at Recology San Francisco and at Mills College. She is currently working on a long-term web-based collaboration with The Lab, an experimental art and performance space in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Awards
Hott was a recipient of the 2017 Artadia Award in San Francisco, and was named one of 24 Artists to Watch in 2015 by Modern Painters Magazine. Her work has been reviewed in Art Practical, Artslant, and Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art.