The art room has been my home since I was a little girl. I am an artist and a daughter, sister, mother, wife, friend. I worked as an elementary art teacher for 23 years. I was born and grew up in Dallas Texas. Austin Texas was home from 1977-1986.I moved with my husband to Philadelphia in 1986 where my daughter was born .We moved back to Dallas Texas in 1993 .We have lived in the same house for 30 years .During the summers starting in 2013 we started renting a house in Fairfax Ca.In 2016 we built a home with a studio there . We now split our time between the two very different states.The drive between the California and Dallas provides a lot time for wandering thoughts and beautiful views. The stories in my art work come from these identities and experiences.
Carroll Swenson-Roberts Website-www.cswenson-roberts.org Email-lala34@swbell.net Born in Dallas Texas1957 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting University of Texas at Austin 1980 Elementary Art Teacher. Lumin Education Dallas,Texas 1997-2020
Gallery Representation Ft. Worth,Tx. Artspace111 Gallery-111 Hampton Road, Ft.Worth ,Texas-76102 Artspace111.com -817 692 3228 Dallas,Tx. Ro2 Art-1501 S. Ervay St. Dallas Texas 75215 Ro2art.com-214 803 9575
Solo Exhibits Dec.2021-January 2022 - Wish You Were Here - Artspace111 Gallery - Ft.Worth,Tx 2019- Garden of Earthly Delights - Ro2 Gallery - Dallas,Tx 2017- Temple of Small Wishes - Ro2@The Magnolia - Ro2 Gallery - Dallas,Tx 2015- Memory Palace - The Ant Colony Gallery – Dallas,Tx 2011- Outside the Back Door Texas Discovery Garden Gallery - Curated by Janet Reynolds – Dallas,Tx 2010- The March Show - the J. Erik Jonson Branch of the Dallas Public Library – Dallas,Tx
Selected Juried Shows 2017– Fourth Annual Artspace 111 Regional Juried Exhibition – Juror Shirley Reece-Hughes (Curator of Paintings and Sculpture ,Amon Carter) Museum - Artspace 111 - Ft. Worth,Tx 2016- Fourth Annual Juried Regional Show – Artspace 111 Gallery - Curator-Eric M. Lee director of the Kimball Museum - Ft. Worth,Tx 2016- Hecho En Dallas - Latino Cultural Cente - Curator -Benjamin Espino – Latino Cultural Center – Dallas,tx 2015- New American Talent XXII - Jurors-Terri Provencal and Barry Whistler – Craighead Green Gallery – Dallas,Tx 2015- I am You are - Art7Gallery - Crockett Community Art Gallery - Curator Ariel Davis - Ft.Worth,Tx 2014- Art in the Metroplex - Ft Worth Community Arts Center - Juror Sara-Jayne Parson (Director of The Art Galleries at TCU) - Fort Worth,Texas 2014- Hecho en Dallas - Latino Cultural Center - Jurors-Kayla Escobero, Lucas Marltell, Francisco Moreno, Arthur Pena, M. Giovanni Valderas - Dallas,Tx 2014- Expo 2014 - 500x Gallery, - Curator-Gabriel Ritter, Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art Dallas Musuem of Art - Dallas,Tx 2010 -Art in the City - Creative Arts Center - Juried Membership Show - Jurors Frances Grinfelder, Nancy Cohen Israel, Vicki Meek – Dallas,Tx 2010 -Fictional Exhibit-Bath House Cultural Center,Dallas, Texas.Curated by Enrique Fernandez Cervantes
Selected Group Shows 2022-Assemblage:Selected Works by Barry Krammes and Carroll Swenson-Roberts,Addison,Tx 2022-A Journey in Color and Line:Drawing the Metroplex- Artist Out and About -Bath House Cultural Center-Curators-Jan Dreskin-Haig and Lynn Smiser Bowers 2021 -Women at Work-CADD - Space@SieMatic -Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, Dallas,Tx 2020 -Included in the Covid Quarantine Group Shows Series @ Ro2 Art : My Corona &From a Distance&Back to the Future - Ro2 Art - Dallas,Tx 2019 -Group Exhibits presented by Office of Cultural Affairs - Art 214-Latino Cultural Center and Art 214 Oak Cliff Cultural Center – Dallas,Tx 2018- Women of Ro2 - Group Show Curated by Susan Roth Romans - Ro2 ,Dallas Tx. 2016- Ladies Night - Small Gallery – Curator Rita Bernard – Dallas,Tx 2014-Vanished - Frisco Discovery Center – Curators Leigh Starkey,Travis Veselka, - Frisco Tx 2014- Spoon !One Humble Utensil ,20 Artist - Agave Print - Curators Lauren Jabon, Elena Eidelberg, Austin Texas 2013- Work Included in the Artist Wall Mural - NlC Gallery - Northlake College - Irving Tx 2013- The Ordinary and The Everyday - Re Gallery – Curated- -Wanda Dye - Dallas Tx 2013- \\Doing Lines// - Continental Gin Loft - Curated Liz Trosper – Dallas, Tx
Collection-Publication- Art Fairs-T.V. shows 1993- 2014 - Art work included in the Belo Collection of Texas Art - Curated by Judith Seguro and Murray Smithers – Dallas ,Tx 2018- Friend of the Artist Volume 6-Artwork included in curated art publication. 2017- Dallas Arts Fair, Ro2 Gallery, curated by Jordon Roth, Susan Roth Romans 2017- Austin Arts Fair. OFG.xxx gallery, Curated by Kevin Rubén Jacobs 2012- Artwork included in the TV series Blue Blood - The art was playing the part of the art of a murdered children’s book illustrator 1980-1993 included in various group and one women shows at public places and private galleries in Texas ,Connecticut and Alabama