Nathan Eugene Carson

Nathan Eugene Carson’s interdisciplinary artistic practice exemplifies the creative potential of free-form play and experimentation. Integration of expressive gestures, bold forms, and vivid colours emerge as defining characteristics across a vast array of media and creative processes that he engages including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, collage and printmaking. Animals and portraiture have become frequent subjects of his visual investigations

In regards to printmaking, Nathan has a long-standing history with various print disciplines since his early days as a student at the Ontario College of Art and Design (presently OCAD University). Entering his undergraduate degree with the intention of focusing his studies in black-and-white photography, an introduction to printmaking during his first year became a defining moment that redirected his artistic endeavours. In his own words,

“I didn’t even know printmaking was a thing. But after taking an introductory course in my first year I was hooked. I thought this is where I need to be.”

Nathan has worked with Smokestack’s Master Printmaker, Laine Groeneweg, several times over the course of his professional career. Their most recent collaborative work was produced during Nathan’s time as a printmaker-in-residence with Smokestack’s 2022 Analog Print Residency. The resulting series of monoprints created in residence became the most extensive body of prints Nathan has produced to-date.  

Nathan Eugene Carson (b. 1980) holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ontario College of Art and Design. His drawings and paintings have been featured in several solo and group exhibitions across Ontario including presentations at Verso Gallery (2013) and The Drake Hotel (2014) in Toronto; Free Fall (2016) and Worked Over (2017) both at Oswald Gallery, Hamilton; 100 Paintings (2019) at The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas; and Pansies (2021) at Paul Elia Gallery, Hamilton to name a select few. Carson’s recent travelling solo-exhibition, Cut From The Same Cloth (2020-2021), was presented at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and the Meridian Arts Centre, Toronto. He is currently the RBC Artist-In-Residence at the Art Gallery of Hamilton.