Steve Carr was born in Gore, New Zealand in 1976, and graduated with an MFA from the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts in 2003. He was the co-founder of the Blue Oyster Gallery in Dunedin, a board member of Auckland’s Artspace (2002-04) and a board member of Christchurch’s The Physics Room (2016-19).
Steve Carr currently lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand and is represented in New Zealand by MICHAEL LETT (Auckland) and in Australia by STATION (Melbourne/Sydney). He has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury’s Ilam School of Art since 2016.