If my body were bound between two sleeves of a book jacket/ what would it say?/ would it perform out of the page?/ or would it remain stitched between the sleeves/ hoping to reach prosperity/ stamped in different languages redefining our story?

Biography

Carron Little is an international artist who lives and works across the United States, United Kingdom, and Europe. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she specialized in Fiber & Material Studies and Digital Video Animation and taught in the Performance Department from 2014 to 2018. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Textile Art from Goldsmiths College, University of London, graduating with First-Class Honors.

Throughout her career, Little has received numerous prestigious awards and grants, including a British Arts Council residency at Barnett College, London (2000-2001), the Propeller Grant from Gallery 400 and the Andy Warhol Foundation (2015), and the Chicago/Swiss artist residency (2016) supported by the Swiss Benevolent Society of Chicago and Chicago Sister Cities International. Her recent accolades include the Hyde Park Art Center Artist-Run award (2023), the Prince Bernhard Culture Award (2023), and the Mondrian Fund (2023) for the Intercity Project. She was also a second-round finalist for Creative Capital in 2022.

Little has presented her performances and artwork extensively throughout the United States in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, and Oklahoma, as well as internationally in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, England, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. Her significant community engagement projects include Dream Minds (2012-2013), City Alive with Dreams (2014-2015), Neighborhood Magic for Beverly, Chicago (2015-2016), Spare Rib Revisited in Lucerne, Switzerland (2016-2018), Gie Ben Ilka Gill | To Give In Each Measure (Spring 2021)—an online interactive public performance project for the community of Ludington, Michigan—and Eight Acts, a live-streamed poetry performance written in response to the 2020 US election. Her most recent solo exhibition called four corners that took place at General Practice in Lincoln, UK, curated by Andrew Bracey, featuring an interactive work called Wall of Truth and four public performances throughout the city.

As a Cultural Producer, Little works with the outofsite_chi artist collective, founded in July 2020 by artists who have participated in outofsite_chi since 2011. The collective organizes Flow • embody in site, a public performance symposium, facilitates Artist Focus conversations about public performance practice, creates public performances, and organizes spontaneous projects like Intercity, inspired by their collective conversations.

Little regularly presents her work and outofsite_chi's projects at universities, conferences, and museums. Following the pandemic, she was invited to present at Intimate Bridges by Theater Entropia in Athens, Greece (funded by the European Union), at the University of Darmstadt, Germany, and at a symposium organized by Daniela Ehemann, Ieke Trinks, and B Ajay Sharma at Chandigarh Museum, New Delhi, India. She also writes policy authoring the 50|50 Initiative that was successfully implemented at the College Arts Association in 2020. As a creative practitioner, Little believes in the transformative power of art to facilitate diverse conversations with diverse communities and publics.