Carrie Marill

B. 1976
Lives & works in San José del Cabo - Baja, Mexico.

EDUCATION
2004 - Master of Fine Art, Painting and Drawing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2002 - Bachelor of Art, Painting, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

ABOUT
Carrie Marill draws inspiration from a vast body of research - from folk art quilts and Persian miniatures to architecture and industrial design.

Born in San Francisco, CA, Marill graduated from San Francisco State University in 2002 with a BA in Painting and received an MFA in Painting from Cornell University in 2004. In addition to displaying her work at galleries and institutions internationally, Marill’s practice includes developing large-scale outdoor murals for public and private clients.

Her artwork has been exhibited throughout the United States and published in New American Paintings, Wired Magazine, Southwest Art, The New Times, The Wall Street Journal, Modern Painters, LA Weekly, and the LA Times. Her work appears in the collections of Todd Oldham, Missoni, Disney, Tiffany’s, and the Hallmark Collection, among many other notable collectors.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My paintings investigate the dialogue between Modern art and the traditions of craft and folk practice, drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Islamic design, Japanese scroll paintings, and American quilt patterns.

I weave together textile motifs and quilt geometry with the clean lines of architecture, the organic rhythms of nature, and the discipline of abstraction. In so doing, I question Modernism’s dismissal of ornament, instead embracing the sensory pleasures of color, pattern, and form.

Playful yet contemplative, my work probes the triumphs and shortcomings of recent art history in search of new possibilities and meanings.

Upcoming Shows

The World Is Too Much With Us
Lisa Sette Gallery
Exhibition Dates:
October 17 – December 30, 2026

Opening Reception with artists:
Saturday, October 17, 2026
1:00 - 3:00pm

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…

In the early years of the Industrial Revolution, Wordsworth’s 1802 sonnet laments humanity’s sudden turn toward novel technologies and meaningless commerce, a shift of human attention away from the unknowable systems and fierce beauty of the natural world. As a contemporary response, The World Is Too Much With Us at Lisa Sette Gallery features new works by Binh Danh, Ala Ebtekar, Timothy Horn, Alan Bur Johnson, Mayme Kratz, David Kroll, Carrie Marill, Marie Navarre, Beverly Penn, and others; whose works examine the parallel changes taking place in our own era.

Lisa Sette Gallery’s timely and stunning collection of contemporary nature-inspired works recalls Wordsworth’s message that it is to our benefit to remain intimately connected to the primordial forces that shaped us, the “Sea that bares her bosom to the moon/The winds that will be howling at all hours.” Centuries removed, the sonnet’s message remains urgent and clarifying, and the artists of The World Is Too Much With Us express it through a variety of conceptual and material modes.

Selected CV

2004 Master of Fine Art, Painting and Drawing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2002 Bachelor of Art, Painting, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2026 The World Is Too Much With Us, Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2025 Intentional Beauty, Carrie Marill and Macarena Miranda, Pez Gordo Gallery, San Jose Del Cabo, Baja California.
2025 Shaping a life of Curiosity, 40 year anniversary exhibition: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2024 Transcendent Geometries - Ato Ribeiro, Carrie Marill, and Andy Burgess: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2023 Diversity in the Desert, Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix AZ.
2023 Sea Folk: Solo Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX.
2023 Kim Kridler, David Kroll, and Carrie Marill: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2022 Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition, Legend City Studios, Phoenix AZ.
2022 Wear Your Love Like Heaven: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2022 Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2022 Global Entry: Group Exhibition, Oolong Gallery’s Inaugural Exhibition, Solana Beach CA.
2020 Wordless Communication: Solo Exhibition, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX.
2020 Blue: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2019 Subversive White: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2019 At the Doors of Perception: Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2019 Inspired by History: Group Exhibition, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler AZ.
2019 Close Observation of Inanimate Objects: Scottsdale Center Space Gallery, Scottsdale AZ.
2019 Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition Downtown, Phoenix AZ.
2018 Object Inspiration: Group Exhibition, Chandler Museum of Art, Chandler AZ.
2018 Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition, Downtown Phoenix AZ.
2018 Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami FL.
2017 Tell Me Why, Tell Me Why, Tell Me Why (Why Can’t we Live Together?): Group Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2017 Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition, Downtown Phoenix AZ.
2017 Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami FL.
2017 Imbalance: Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2016 Get up Get Down, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2016 Art Miami, Lisa Sette Gallery, Miami FL.
2016 Expo Chicago, Lisa Sette Gallery, Chicago IL.
2016 Chaos Theory: Group Exhibition, Downtown Phoenix AZ.
2016 Sculptural Paintings, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX.
2016 Get Up Get Down, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix AZ.
2020 Denis Diderot Grant, Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist Residency, Chateau d’Orquevaux, France
2016 New American Paintings
2005 Contemporary Forum of Phoenix Art Museum Artist Grant,
2004 The Charles Baskerville Painting Award, Cornell University.
2003 CCA Grant, Cornell Council on the Arts, 2003.