Courtney Lynne Carter

Courtney Carter is an arts educator, curator, and administrator with over nine years of experience in the arts and culture industry. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Southern California and a recipient of the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. Her research interests include photographic manipulation, intermedial experimentation, gendered labor, and the performativity of process. She was selected as the 2024-25 Kenneth J. Botto Research Fellow at the Center for Creative Photography, the 2024-25 Davidson Family Fellow at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and a 2022-23 Graduate Fellow for the NEH-funded Humanities Initiative titled “Images out of Time: Visual and Material Culture in a Digital Age.” Prior to graduate school, she completed fellowships at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities at Haverford College. At Yale-NUS, she spearheaded an inaugural symposium about disability culture in Southeast Asia with a team of scholars, artists, and activists. At Haverford College, she curated three contemporary art exhibitions, entitled "Riva Lehrer: Consent to Be Seen," "Your Special Island," and "We're Sorry, This Item is No Longer Available," and contributed to several other exhibitions, including "The Legacy of Lynching" in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative and "Symbiosis: Art, Science, Community" in partnership with the Center for Creative Works. She has held internships at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and is an alumnus of the 2019 ICI Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans. Courtney received her B.A. in English Literature from Haverford College.