Ellen Carpenter’s multimedia practice explores the overlapping realms of the domestic space and the body, and the inherent contradictions both contain. Her work presents an understanding of home and body as sites that can simultaneously sustain and destroy one’s life. Beginning in 2024, her performance and installation projects have specifically addressed anger as an emotion that is either expressed or repressed through the body within domestic settings.

Carpenter received her MFA in Fine Art from the School of Visual Arts in 2022, and her BA in Literary Studies from Eugene Lang, The New School in 2016. She has exhibited work in New York, San Francisco, and Colorado. In July 2023 she curated the performance show A Labor Party with fellow artist and collaborator, Flora Wilds, at Trestle Artspace, Gowanus. Most recently she will perform her durational performance piece, Hair Care, at ModA Curations as part of their exhibition, Love, June 2025.