Education

2020

Master of Fine Arts, Photography and Related Media | Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

2018

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art (Photography) | Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Summa Cum Laude

2015

Associate in Arts, General Studies | Mesa Community College, Mesa, Arizona

Teaching Experience

August 2020-Present | Assistant Teaching Professor | Arizona State University

January 2021-May 2021| Adjunct Faculty | Rochester Institute of Technology

October 2020-February 2021 | Visiting Artist | Flower City Arts Center

August 2018- August 2020 | Graduate Teaching Assistant | Rochester Institute of Technology

Artist Residencies

2021

Project Space Residency, Visual Studies Workshop (VSW), Rochester, NY

Exhibitions

2024

Arizona Biennial 2024, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (upcoming)

Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe Arizona

Into Act!on 2024, Resolution Studios, Chicago, IL

Breakthrough: Arizona’s Emerging Visual Voices, Museum of Arizona Artist, Phoenix, AZ

Myth-Science of the Gatekeepers, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Art Bridging Borders, Ubuntu Project, Virtual

Alchemy of Light, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY

Sun and Moon, Tower Fine Arts Center, Brockport, NY

CPA Artist Grant Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA

2023

Night Vision, Phoenix Airport Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Memento Mori III, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ

Of Dawn, Illges Gallery, Columbus, GA

Learning Social Justice, Tower Fine Arts Gallery, SUNY Brockport, NY

dust to dust, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

Imminent Existence: Critical Mass 2022 Top 50 Exhibition, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

Amplified Voices, Odessa College: Phillips Goff Gallery, Odessa, TX

Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN

(Solo) A Vision of Spirituality in the Afrofuturist Universe: The Work of Granville Carroll, The Hurston Museum, Eatonville, FL

2022

Endings and Beginnings, Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ

Bookery Fair, Macau, China

Blue Hour, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, VA

PHX Art Now IV, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa, AZ

F22 Pop Up Exhibition, Chicago, IL

Silver Eye Benefit Auction Exhibition, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

Photoville Fence Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA

5 Years of Aspect at Danforth, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA

Celestial Bodies: Between Heaven and Earth, CAV Gallery, Las Cruces, NM

Unmasking Ourselves: Celebrating Our Differences and Challenging Misconceptions, Pool Art Center, Springfield, MO

2021

Homecoming, JKC Gallery, New Jersey

Naked and the Nude, Northlight Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

Where Were We, RIT City Art Space, Rochester, NY

Memento Mori: Memento Vivere, Northlight Gallery, Phoenix Arizona

Time in Jazz Music Festival, Italy (Gianluca Petrella: Cosmic Renaissance)

Spring 2021: Diaspora Studies, The Curated Fridge

Granville Carroll: Because the Sun Hath Looked Upon Me, Silver Eye Center for Photography

Heart-To-Art, Flower City Arts Center

Inner World, Artdoc Magazine

Explore: Go Boldly, Tempe Center of the Arts, Tempe, Arizona

Explore: Endeavor, Tempe Post Office (TCA), Tempe, Arizona

The 2020 Favorite Photograph Exhibition, Lenscratch

2020

Annus Horribilis, Float Magazine

The Class of 2020, In the In-Between

Back Talk, Photo-Emphasis

Fractured Horizon, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Online due to covid, Rochester, New York

Oracles of the Other, Modified Arts, Phoenix, Arizona

2019

Who Are You?, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado

In Between, Shades Collective,

19 Emerging, Gallery Q, Rochester, New York

2018

MFA Workshare, William Harris Gallery, Rochester, New York

Phoenix First Friday, Skyline Lofts, Phoenix, Arizona (solo show)

Phoenix First Friday, Proxy 333, Phoenix, Arizona (solo show)

Emerge 2018, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona

Internal Exploration, ASU Northlight Gallery-Tempe Campus, Tempe, Arizona

Light Sensitive, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

Diverse Artist Collective of AZ, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona

2017

Undergraduate Juried Exhibition, Harry Wood Gallery (ASU), Tempe, Arizona

Shifting Realities, Gallery 100 (ASU), Tempe, Arizona

Raw Artist Showcase-Savor, The Pressroom, Phoenix, Arizona

Emerge 2017, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ

2016

Art as a Means of Expression to Reinforce Identity, Herberger Theater & University Club, Phoenix, Arizona

2015

Emerge 2015, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona

2014

Emerge 2014, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona

Curatorial

2024

Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions, Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe, AZ

2022

Origin Stories: Personal Cosmologies, NY Photo Curator Online Exhibition

2021

Open Show Pasadena/East LA #39: Between Fact and Fiction 

Proclamations in Black, White, and Red, Flower City Arts Center, Expanding the Field Youth Group

Artist Talks

2024

Myth-Science of the Gatekeepers, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Arizona Photo Alliance, Phoenix Arizona

CPA Artist Support Grant Recipient, Granville Carroll, Center for Photographic Art

2023

Seeing Beyond the Human, Land Art Agency, Online

Of Dawn Discussion Panel, Columbus, GA

Unfolding Universe: Cycles of Creation and Destruction, Alumni Lecture Series, Maine Media Workshops

dust to dust exhibition discussion panel, Houston Center for Photography

Visiting Artist, Phillips Exeter Academy

Studio Topics in Advertising Photo (Photomanipulation), Rochester Institute of Technology

African Futures and Urban Imaginaries (Discussion Panel), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Arts and Humanities Beyond Gravity (Discussion Panel), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

2022

A Night of Afrofuturism, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

Neptune Frost Film Screening+Discussion Panel, Little Theatre, Rochester, NY

Griffin Museum of Photography, Photosynthesis XVI

Rochester Institute of Technology: Visual Communication

Amherst College: Experimental Photography

St John Fisher College: Photography in the Social Moment

2021

Beyond the Veil, George Eastman Museum

First Exposures, Because the Sun Hath Looked Upon Me, In the Finite, Infinitely

University of Iowa: Transcendence and Elements

Open Show Pasadena: In the Finite, Infinitely

Rochester Institute of Technology: Cosmotypes

Chandler-Gilbert Community College: Black History Month -Virtual Living Library

2020

University of Arkansas: Because the Sun Hath Looked Upon Me

SUNY New Paltz: Because the Sun Hath Looked Upon Me

Arizona State University: Faculty Lecture Series

Rochester Institute of Technology: Digital Cameras and Photography

2018

Mesa Community College: Innsaei

Publications/Interviews/Features, Etc.

2024

Vol 4. The Body, Dada Duende Record Club

Of Covid, Humble Arts and +KGP

2023

Space, Issue 8, Guest Contributor, Panorama Journal

Artist Granville Carroll Explores Identity and Representation in Photography, KJZZ Radio

2022

Star Dust, What will You Remember

Dark Matter, VSW Press, Visual Studies Workshop

Blue Hour Artist Feature: Granville Carroll, Candela Books + Gallery

PhotoLounge Presents: Granville Carroll

Issue 155, Project Feature, Fraction Magazine

Figure Studies: Granville Carroll: The Body as Celestial, Lenscratch

VSW Salon Review, Visual Studies Workshop (print)

2021

Figure Studies: Granville Carroll: The Body as Celestial, Lenscratch

Brink Literary Journal, Contributor (print)

Photographers on Photographers: Granville Carroll in Conversation with Lonnie Graham

Black Is Magazine, Artist Interview

The Whole of the Moon, Artist Feature, What Will You Remember?

Granville Carroll: Cosmotypes, Artist Feature, Aspect Initiative

Granville Carroll: Cosmotypes, Artist Feature, Phases Mag

Cosmological Photography as a Symbol of Power, Balance, and Origin Stories, Artist Interview, Humble Arts Foundation

Annus Horribilis, Zine, Float Magazine (print)

Black Serenity, Multimedia Feature, Daylight Books

2020

Granville Carroll, Artist Interview, Catalysts: Interviews

MCC Alum Channels Passion for Art Through Photography, Mesa Community College

Remarkable Images from Critical Mass 2020, Artist Feature, What Will You Remember?

Two Photographers Connect on Afrofuturism: A Conversation with Ohemaa Dixon and Granville Carroll, Humble Arts Foundation

Granville Carroll: Storytellers, Artist Interview, Lenscratch

Artist Short Sesh, Artist Interview, RIT City Art Space

Granville Carroll, Artist Feature, Photo-Emphasis

Philosophy in Art, Artist Feature, Rochester Institute of Technology

Modified Arts: Oracles of the Other, Java Magazine (print and online)

Impact, RIT College of Art and Design: Graduate Viewbook (print)

2019

On Blackness & Afrofuturism with Photographer Granville Carroll, Artist Interview, Shades Collective

Creative Portraiture, Artist Feature, Rochester Institute of Technology

2018

Art & Life with Granville Carroll Art & Life with Granville Carroll, Artist Interview, Voyage Phoenix

Awards and Honors 

2023

CPA Project Support Grant Recipient

2022

Photo Lucida-Top 50 Critical Mass

NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography

JGS Fellowship for Photography Recipient

2021

VSW Project Space Residency

Photolucida Print Collective Initiative

The Silver List

2020

Top 200 Critical Mass, Photolucida

2020 Best in Show: Back Talk Exhibition, Photo-Emphasis

2020 NEPR Scholarship Award, Griffin Museum

2020 Critical Mass MFA Scholarship Recipient, Photolucida

2020 FotoFika All Stars

2020 College of Art and Design Graduate Delegate

2020 RIT Provost's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award Nominee

Greg Barnett Memorial Scholarship

School of Photographic Arts and Sciences Graduate Scholarship