Mark Maurangi Carrol
b. 1995

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Mark Maurangi Carrol is a Sydney-based artist whose practice explore the entanglements of memory, identity, and diasporic experience throug expanded modes of painting. Rooted in his upbringing between Australia and the Cook Islands (Rarotonga), Carrol interrogates the slippage between place and belonging, using personal and familial history as a lens to examine cultural narratives shaped by colonialism, migration, and dislocation.

Central to Carrol’s practice is a distinctive reverse-painting technique, informed by his background in printmaking and traditional Cook Islander textile practices, including Tīvaevae and Pāreu. Carrol holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National Art School, Sydney (2017). He was awarde the Mosman Art Prize, 2025, and the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship, 2023, which included a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. He has been a finalist in major national awards including the Sir John Sulman Prize, 2024, The Wynne Prize, 2025, the Mac yapang Art Prize, the Arthur Guy Memorial Art Prize, 2023, the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, 2024, and the Bayside Painting Prize, 2025.

His work has been exhibited widely across Australia and internationally with presentations in Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland, Rarotonga, Shanghai, and Singapore. Carrol has held solo exhibitions at Sydney Contemporary (Carriageworks), Lismore Regional Gallery, Nasha Gallery (Sydney), and the Melbourne Art Fair, and has been included in group exhibitions at institutions and art fairs such as the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Aotearoa Art Fair (Auckland), ART021 (Shanghai), and Gillman Barracks.