Enise Carr (b. 1973, New Orleans, LA) is a conceptual artist. Rooted in geometry, his practice traces the quiet conversation between chance and order. Incidental marks and accidental forms become points of departure—framed, repeated, and reimagined until they gather rhythm, pattern, and meaning. Through this process, abstraction becomes a language of emergence, where symbols surface from uncertainty and structure gives form to the unpredictable.

Carr received his BFA in Painting from the University of Oklahoma in 1997 and his MFA in Mixed Media from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1999. He also completed a program in Architecture at the Catholic University of America in 2012.

Carr has exhibited throughout the United States, most recently serving as the subject of a 2025 solo exhibition, Archaeology of the Accident, at Gallery 42 in Washington, DC. He is the founding director of Prema Projects in Oklahoma City, OK, an experimental art space devoted to emerging artists. From 2021 to 2023 he worked with his mentor, Sam Gilliam, as a studio assistant. 

Carr has shown at Christopher Brodigan Gallery in Groton, MA, Waiting Room Gallery in New Orleans, LA, Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore, MD, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, ME, where he was twice an artist in residence (1999, 2021). In addition, Carr has completed residencies at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Residency, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo, Ireland (2025) and the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia, PA (2022).

He has lectured at institutions including George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, the College Art Association 113th Annual Conference in New York, NY, Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD.

Alongside his studio practice, Carr is a professor of fine art in Washington, DC, where he currently lives and works.

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Painting for Future World Tomorrow (Megalopolis) installation by Enise Carr, 2000-2002