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B.1984 Philadelphia, PA.
MFA- University of Pennsylvania
BFA- University of the Arts

Ted Carey makes object poetry for unnoticed spaces. He plays off the cuff, improvising, often without the framing of an exhibition or institution.

Carey currently resides in Western Massachusetts, where he DJs a free form radio show and pilots sail planes.

exhibitions with Northern-Southern

FROM (2023)
TO and TOO (2021)
LEFT IN LEAVES
REBRIS with Virginia Fleck

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To learn more about Ted Carey email hello@northern-southern.com.

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“At odd moments, like a brief bird, a sudden and enchanting obsession has flown into my mind and sat there for a while in the branches of my intelligence staring at me with a happy expression on its face and then flown away to return again for short visits later on. It always keeps coming back.”

– Richard Brautigan, The Tokyo Montana Express

“Carey works with the drastic insightfulness of an absurdist poet. His elegantly distressed objects, funny and sad and oddly exquisite, undermine varied sacred cows of culture and commerce. More, they affirm the vitality and importance of the mindful eye and heart in a world that overlooks beauty and numbs the senses.”

– Matt Freedman