John Michael Carter

John Michael Carter was born in Chicago, IL. He began his first studies in drawing at the age of 16 with his father, E.L. Carter, a commercial artist. In 1968 he attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

In 1970 Mr. Carter moved to Los Angeles where he attended the Art Center College of Design. There he received a background in the major classical schools of painting and graduated with a BFA degree in 1972.

For ten years Carter taught drawing and painting for the University of Kentucky at Jefferson Community College. He also has been a frequent guest at art workshops across the nation including the Scottsdale Artist School, the Dallas Arts League, and the Arts Club of Cincinnati.

Since 1975 he has 36 one-person shows and participated in many group exhibitions and national competitions. He has exhibited with Grand Central Gallery in New York, the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, and Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe among others. In 1988 Carter was one of the four top award winners at the Arts for the Parks competition and he was one of fifty artists selected to show at the 1991 Hubbard Museum Award for Excellence. He is also a participant in the Artists of America show in Denver.

Mr. Carter's portraits include governors, senators, and university presidents as well as corporate and civic leaders. His paintings hang in the collection of the Phillips Petroleum Corporation, TRW Corporation, Bartlesville, OK, J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY, the McDonalds Museum in Des Plains, IL, the Patton Museum in Fort Knox, KY, the State Capitol Museum in Frankfort, KY, and in many other corporate collections.

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