Carrie Able is a New York-based musician and multidisciplinary artist whose work defies any one genre. As disciplines meet and transform, Able positions herself within the realms of music, live performance, and virtual reality, yet there remains an inherent sense of an artist whose roots stem from a continuous evolution of traditional media.
Able's work is three-dimensional with an open invitation to discovery and connection. Within Able's worlds there is a physicality not always present in decentralized virtual spaces — a human element that calls viewers back to themselves.
Starting with sound, followed by a brushstroke or choreographed movement, an environment unfolds — building on a lifelong artistic practice that, while unique, resonates beyond the individual.
The strength of creative amalgamation emerges where digital lines drawn in mid-air align with oil on linen. A guitar riff emerges through the same intuitive process as a brushstroke or choreographed movement. As figures float and interact with a virtual version of Able, surrounded by dancers, a song, a melody, a poem, a color, a movement, a glow, an edge, a horizon meld into each other.
In this, Able has succeeded in building a unique axis — one that transforms and transports the viewer into color, chord progression, and most importantly, a feeling. Boundaries dissolve for both artist and viewer as the ability to be grounded in one's own reality holds true.
- Sam Light
Oil Paintings · Series
Six small-format oil paintings on canvas, 12 × 9 in.
BOX · Volumetric VR painting, VR film, dance,
original music.
Vr Painting, all elements of sound by Able. Choreography by Pink Supakarn and Kate Griffler. Full visual album available as a VR app download in collaboration with AetherealStudios. Limited edition prints in collaboration with Turner Carroll Gallery, USA
G.A.M.E. · Interactive
The Guided Arts Media Experience — Virtual Reality, live global multi user single instance interactive art and music experience; available for download worldwide. G.A.M.E. development in collaboration with Seth Gibson.
Forme Able · Sculpture
3D printed sculpture. Hand-sculpted in VR; fabricated via 3D printing
Live Performance
Choreography by Kate Griffler and Pink Supakarn. Original music performed by Carrie Able and the Aura.
Album · Fall 2026
A full-band vinyl album. Paint the Silence — Carrie Able and the Aura. To be released in the fall of 2026.
Paint the Silence
Series
12 × 9 inches each
White wood frames
Series of 6, 2026
Six small-format oil paintings constitute the physical core of Paint the Silence. Each work begins not with an image but with sound — a note, a chord, a passage of silence — and unfolds through biomorphic forms and geometric fragments that resist easy reading.
The figures are not self-portraits. They are as much the artist as any abstract element or brushstroke — embodiments of a world being built rather than a self being pictured. Distinct in emotional register but unified in visual language, the series grounds an exhibition of extraordinary technological scope in the most direct of materials: oil, canvas, and time.
For inquiries regarding the paintings, contact hello@carrieable.com
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
No. 5
No. 6
BOX
A 360° painted world
Visitors to Palazzo Mora step inside a VR headset and enter a fully hand-painted, 360-degree environment — a world built from painted air and imagination, made navigable through technology.
Enter the painted world of BOX via a headset — surrounded by Able's VR environment and by the three performers moving within it, while Able's original music is her solo version of her songwriting, where she is writing, producing, and performing every instrument. Able records each layer of herself performing and layers them on top of one another until creating a final, produced version of the song. Kate and Pink then choreograph the dance, while Able crafts the VR visuals, before they are filmed volumetrically inside the painting. A full 6-song VR visual album is available for download in collaboration with VR AetherealStudios
G.A.M.E.
Guided Arts Media Experience
G.A.M.E. takes the mechanics of a game but without a correct outcome. Developed as a framework for total sensory engagement, it collapses the distance between artist and audience and allows visitors connect in real time with viewers around the world, inhabiting the same visual space while separated by continents to experience a single instance immersive art at the same time.
The term G.A.M.E. - Guided Arts Media Experience was developed by Carrie Able to describe not just this work but a philosophy of making: art as inhabitable world, experience as medium.
Limited Edition
VR Prints
A selection of limited edition prints from the Paint the Silence series are available in collaboration with Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Each print captures a still from the painted virtual environments — frames from within the 360° worlds of BOX, translated from digital space into physical form.
These works bridge the two poles of Able's practice: the immaterial space of virtual reality and the material weight of an object you can hold. They are the silence, made visible.
Turner Carroll Gallery has represented significant artists working at the intersection of technology, landscape, and abstraction for over three decades. The collaboration situates Paint the Silence within a rigorous tradition of printmaking and editions.
- Edition Limited edition — size and pricing available on inquiry
- Source Stills from the VR environments of Paint the Silence
- Gallery Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Inquiries hello@carrieable.com
Limited Edition Prints
In collaboration with Turner Carroll GalleryArchival prints from the painted virtual environments of Paint the Silence. Each edition produced in close collaboration with the artist.
Turner Carroll Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
The Guided Arts
Media Experience
G.A.M.E. — a term developed by the artist — describes a total sensory experience. As within a game, there is a level of accessibility that encourages connection, reinvention, and relationship building on a global scale.
Stepping into a VR headset, Able invites guests within the historic palazzo to connect with viewers from around the world, speaking to one another in real time while simultaneously inhabiting paintings. There is nothing to win here — the outcome is feeling.
- MusicOriginal compositions by Carrie Able and the Aura. Vinyl album release, fall 2026.
- VR / BOX360° painted environments connecting visitors across continents in real time.
The Exhibition
Presented as part of Personal Structures: Confluences 2026 by the European Cultural Centre — one of the world's most significant independent exhibitions during the Venice Art Biennale period.
Named by Forbes as a leading pioneer in XR Art, Carrie Able has performed and exhibited across the world, from SXSW and Art Basel Miami to the World's Fair in Dubai and virtual worlds in VR. Her solo exhibitions with the ECC's Personal Structures have linked interactive XR works, music, and traditional media to audiences of 500,000+.
"Carrie Able is the person to bring the Metaverse to the mainstream." — Mike Pell, Global Director of Innovation, Microsoft
Artistic Direction
Text
Technology
Album Recording, NYC 2026
Location
Palazzo Mora
Strada Nova 3659
Cannaregio, Venice, Italy
Personal Structures: Confluences 2026
European Cultural Centre
Dates
May – November 2026
During the Venice Art Biennale period.
Vinyl album release
Fall 2026
Contact & Inquiries
For all inquiries regarding the project, artworks, and related works:
Limited edition prints in collaboration with
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA
PAST EXHIBITIONS in Venice
April - November 2022
AMERICAN ARTIST, CARRIE ABLE, DEBUTS AT VENICE BIENNALE
WITH MULTIMEDIA, INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION
From NEW YORK CITY, USA to VENICE, ITALY—American artist Carrie Able (she/her) announces first large-scale European, solo-exhibition, DALL’ANIMA, premiering at the 59th Venice Biennale during the sixth edition of Personal Structures: Reflections.
Invited by the European Cultural Centre (ECC), Able’s exhibition will be on view in the historic 15th Century palace, Palazzo Bembo, steps away from the Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.
DALL’ANIMA, ‘of the soul’, represents the full capacity of Able’s multidisciplinary practice, exploring themes of simultaneous joy and pain of the human experience. On view for seven months, an anticipated 200,000+ guests will view Able’s exhibition, which is a testament to her cross-media vision and a cultimation of experimentation and form.
“Able is our first exhibiting multimedia artist to simultaneously bridge the worlds of music, dance, traditional oil painting, poetry, and mixed reality with all of her works. She weaves disciplines together to build a world of her own, which she invites us to step inside," says the ECC.
“Referencing identity and experience through an inherently layered process, Carrie Able’s works can be viewed as the convergence of the Metaverse and Web3 within international gallery spaces. Able’s consistent vision within both art and tech has built a unique link to the experiences of creation, exhibition, and collection,” says curator, Sam Light.
A pioneer in the expanding discipline of digitally native works, Able positions new metaverse technologies against the context of Personal Structures, informing global audiences about how immersive art can increase accessibility and cross-cultural communication. The nuances of mixed reality have yet to break through into widespread fine art adoption.
The works on view in DALL’ANIMA highlight the integration of technology through all stages of creativity—the visual components of this exhibition include the premier of 8 large-scale oil paintings, which act as Augmented Reality-markers, volumetric, SLS 3D printed sculptures, fully immersive VR digital paintings and a holographic installation of a choreographed music performance. Components of the exhibition in-person and remotely will be interactive with Able’s new custom app, such as a physical art-book.
Selected works will be available for collection as NFTs through a verified drop on Nifty Gateway on April 20, 2022, with subsequent drops following the exhibition opening.
On April 22 at 7:30pm / 19:30 at Palazzo Bembo, Able will perform live. The 30-minute show will include original music and arrangements by Able and original choreography by Pink Supakarn. Together with Able and Supakarn, dancer Kate Griffler will perform a version of what appears as a hologram within the exhibition.