About

Carter Tam is an artist, born on October 23, 2002, and raised in Markham, Ontario. He is currently attending university at UAL Chelsea in London, United Kingdom for a BA in Fine Art. His practice revolves around ideas ranging from identity, self, sex and love encompassing our hyper digitized world. He investigates, contests, and documents the Asian/Chinese queer experience through ritualistically making. Carter’s body of work is theatrical and with grandeur shown through some of his paintings, as oil paint is his most practiced medium, but his practice extends to include sculpture, performance, video art and more etc. Taking a conceptual and experimental approach towards working, Carter’s work is not only extremely personal to self but attempts to engage with the public assertively as he continues his exploration in performativity with presentation. As Carter’s work deals with themes of love, this extends and parallels with representations of nature and the Earth, but more namely its conflict with the dichotomous nature/culture divide. This dissection of dichotomy extends to investigations of binary impositions such as male/female, active/passive, dominant/submissive and our human cultural interventions with technologies for practice of power and control.