BIO

Larry Carlson is a visionary multi media artist. Working with computers he creates artwork that is completely mind blowing. G4Tech TV called him "The Salvador Dali of the Next Century", and High Times magazine labeled him an "artistic mastermind". Working in the mediums of web art, digital art,animation, video art, collage and sound he presents us with the mystical dimensions of consciousness,coaxing us into sweet spiritualized epiphanies one moment then plunging us into completely bizarre surreal frenzies the next. Internationally recognized as one of the most original digital artists in the world today, his websites are at the vanguard of taking the internet to the next level.

A pioneer in multimedia experimental web-art, he first started exhibiting his artwork online in 1997. For the past five years Yahoo! directory has ranked Larry Carlson as the number one computer artist in the world. Newspapers around the world like London's Guardian, Montreal's Mirror, and Istanbul's Vatan News have done features on his awe-inspiring artwork.

Larry Carlson has exhibited his artwork in museums and galleries in the U.S., Brazil, Sweden, France, and Germany. He has also provided live visuals for major electronic music events in New York City,Las Vegas, Toronto,and Los Angeles,as well as mixing video live on tour with musical group, The Kottonmouth Kings.

 

IN THE NEWS

VICE MAGAZINE: "Larry Carlson decided to set the bar to new heights on his website"

JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE: "Interesting interactivity.! Plops you into a photo-surreal landscape and allows you to chose your own really odd adventure."

HIGH TIMES: "Larry Carlson is an artistic mastermind"

BOING BOING: "Larrycarlson.com is Web Zen"

G4 TV: "Larry Carlson is "The Salvador Dali of the Next Century!"

ALTERATI: "The realities visioned in these images are so strange and crazy, but seem more tightly harmonious and divinely ordered than our kitchen sink world."

NOW TV: "Wow! It like totaly freaked me out!"

LOYAL MAGAZINE: "The skill and simplicity of his work crackles with imagery that makes you feel as though you've gotten a glimpse into the future using a 1980s time travel device."

MONTREAL MIRROR: "Larry Carlson’s web site is pretty amazing and hilarious!"

VATAN NEWS, Istanbul: "Digital Ecstasy!"

 

PRESS

NY Arts | Larry Carlson talks to Ry Fyan 2007

Someones Garden, Japanese book, 2007

Vice magazine , 2007

Juxtapoz magazine, 2007

Seven Days, Vermont newspaper, front page 2005

High Times magazine, artist feature 2004

Drunken Boat, Columbia University , artist profile, Spring 2004

Q and A with Larry Carlson 2005

Vatan Newspaper, "Dijital Ecstasy", Istanbul, Turkey, 2003

Grrl-e-Grrl, " What a Mind Fuck", 2002

High Times magazine, "Morsels for the Mind", 12/2002

Internet Art, featured artist, Paço das Artes Museum book, 2002

Shift, Interview, Aug. 2001

Blue Arts , Interdimensional cyber chat with Larry Carlson, 2001

Featured artist of the month interview with Larry Carlson from PixArt magazine, 2000

 

TV Segments

G4 Tech TV feature 2002

NOW TV interview 2001

EPIC-FU TV feature 2007

 

 

EXHIBITIONS

Larry Carlson at Other Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.

Larry Carlson at Galleri Loyal,Stockholm,Sweden.