ABOUT

Mary Carter Taub is an artist living and working in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She makes site-specific and community-engaged art. She holds an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University, and a BA from Meredith College.

Carter Taub’s career is defined by a series of permanent public art “firsts." She created the inaugural artwork for Chapel Hill Transit’s bus wrap program, a medium that has since become a staple of local public art. In Carlsbad, California, Carter Taub designed the first architectural glass public artwork in the city’s public art collection. In North Carolina, she broke new ground by creating the state’s first public art installations for park restrooms at Carpenter Fire Station Road Park, and the first rubberized ground-surface mural for a playground at Umstead Park.

Her playful and vibrantly colored art connects people to the spaces they inhabit. Carter Taub’s work spans across the country with public commissions for the New York City Department of Transportation, Nashville International Airport, and the Bay Area Discovery Museum, with exhibitions at the Islip Art Museum and the 92nd Street Y. Closer to home, Carter Taub has activated spaces for the cities of Charlotte, Raleigh, and Durham, as well as Duke University, UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest University, TEDx, and Red Hat headquarters.

Carter Taub has held art residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Parsons School of Design, and the North Carolina Arts Council. Her work has been highlighted in publications including The New York Times, The News & Observer, Vogue, and Qué Pasa Periódico.