List of Shows
2019
•Nature in Fiber, VALA Arts, Kirkland, WA
•ARTQUILTSdreams, Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC
•Sacred Threads, Floris United Methodist Church, Herndon, VA
2018
•ArtQuilts Elements 2018, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
•18th Artist as Quiltmaker, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
•ARTQUILTSpassion, Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC
•Dusk to Dawn, SAQA, Traveling Exhibition
•It’s All Relative, The Wilder Building Gallery, Rochester, NY
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Moments in Fiber, PAQA-South, Cape fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
•2018 Quilts Unlimited, View, Old Forge, NY
•Art Quilts XXIII: Artistic Ecologies, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
2017
•Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
•Evolutions 2017, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
•Interpretations: Conversations, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA
•Everything In Between, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, Utah
•ARTQUILTSrespite, Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC, Lisa Ellis Juror's Award
•With These Hands, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH
•State of WA(ter), Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, LaConner, WA
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Moments in Fiber, PAQA-South, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
•2018 Quilts Unlimited, View, Old Forge, NY
2016
•My Corner of the World, SAQA, Stratford Perth Museum, Stratford, Ontario
•Fantastic Fibers 2016, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
•Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
•Tranquility, Studio Art Quilt Associates Traveling Exhibition
•Fiber Fusion, Surface Design Travel Exhibition
•Erika Carter: Contemporary Silk Art, Gallery Belltown Condominium, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Lasting Impressions, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2013
•Earlville Opera House Multi-Arts Center Gallery, Earlville, NY
2012
•Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
2011
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Art Quilts XVI: Something to Say, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
•National Fiber Directions Exhibition 2011, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
•The Art Quilt Experience, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
•The American Art Company 11th Contemporary Quilt Invitational, Tacoma, WA
2010
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Art Quilts XV: Needleplay, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
2009
•Transitions, Revolution Gallery, Issaquah, WA (SOLO)
2008
•10th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational; American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2007
•Animalia, Allied Arts, Richland, WA
•Perspective: Evidence of Time, Festival of Quilts, National Exhibition Center, Birmingham, England (SOLO)
2006
•Focus on Form, Esveld Gallery, Columbia Basin College; Pasco, WA
•Looking Forward, Glancing Back, Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50; Bellevue Art Museum; WA
•9th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational; American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Artist Trust Exhibition; Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA
2005
•The Art Quilt; The Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
•A Contemporary Art Quilt Exhibition; Moses Lake Museum & Art Center; Moses Lake, WA
2004
•Redefining Quilts; Bruce Gallery; Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Edinboro, PA
•Visual Verse: Collaborations in Poetry and Cloth, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
•Looking Forward, Glancing Back: Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50, Whatcom Museum of History &
Art, Bellingham, WA
•Material Evidence: Clay, Fiber, Glass, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•The Quilted Surface, Ronald L. Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
•Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA
•Art Quilt Show XI, Alegre Retreat 2004, Sweeny Center, Santa Fe, NM
•Quilt Show at Edinboro University, Edinboro, \PA
•Allied Arts of Richland NWDC Exhibition, Richland, WA
•Pacific Northwest Quiltfest, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
2003
•Art Quilt Show X, Alegre Retreat 2003, Sweeny Center, Santa Fe, NM
•Quilt National “03, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Branching Out, Northwest Fine Woodworking, Bellevue, WA
•Quilts = Art = Quilts 2003, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Inspiration – Improvisation – Interpretation, Quilt & Art, Muhlhein am Main, Germany
•7th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2002
•Fiber and Clay in the Year of the Horse”, Triad Gallery, Seal Rock, OR
•The Quilted Surface: International Comtemporary Art Quilts; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
•Art Quilt Show VIII, Alegre Retreat 2002, Sweeny Center, Santa Fe, NM
•Summer Breeze: Northwest Fiber Arts Invitational, The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
•Erika Carter: New Art Quilts/Discharged Textiles, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO)
•Fiber Transitions, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA (SOLO)
2001
•NWDC: Evidence of the Body; Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
•6th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Living Tradition: Contemporary American Quilts, Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
•Colores Del Mundo, Museo De La Nacion, Lima, Peru
•Quilt National ‘01, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Invitational, City Arts Gallery, Wichita, KS
•Inside Looking Out, Solo Show, Oak Hollow Gallery, Yakima, WA (SOLO)
2000
•Inspirations, Improvisations, Interpretations, Traveling Show, Germany
•Art Quilt Show VIII, Alegre Retreat, Santa Fe, NM
•Group Show, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fee, NM
•LightHEARTedly Speaking, BKB & Company, Tacoma, WA
•2nd Annual Textile Exhibit, Bradiggins Art Gallery, Hillsborough, NC
•Art Quilt 2000, ONDA Gallery, Portland, OR
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Exhibit, Allied Arts, Richland, WA
•Erika Carter, American Visions, St. Louis, MO (SOLO)
•Inner Momentum, Bradiggins Art Gallery, Hillsborough, NC (SOLO)
•Art Quilts by Erika Carter, Mercer Island Gallery, Mercer Island, WA (SOLO)
1999
•5th Northwest Contemporary Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Quilt National '99, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Alegre Retreat Art Quilt Show VI, Santa Fe, NM
•Quilts in Bloom, Mainau, Germany
•Materials: Hard & Soft Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•Fourteenth Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Warensburg, MO
•Pajaro Valley Quilt Show, Santa Cruz, C
•Erika Carter, Plaza 600, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
•Erika Carter, Attachmate, Bellevue, WA (SOLO)
1998
•Muse of the Millennium, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA
•More than Surface, Hill County Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX
•4th Northwest Contemporary Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•A Celebration of Women, Janet Laurel Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Artists for Colorado's Youth Art Auction, Colorado History Museum, Denver, CO
•Variations in Oil, Wood, Fiber, Mercer Island Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
•VISIONS: Quilt Expressions, Museum of San Diego History, San Diego, CA
•The Great Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA (Judge's Choice Award)
•The American Quilt: From Craft to Finc Art, Davison Art Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, NY
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Allied Arts Center, Richland, WA
•Form and Freedom, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
1997
•Quilt National '97, Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
•Greater Midwest International Exhibition XII, CMSU Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO
•Patterns of Progress, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA
•On the Edge: Northwest QuiltArt, Museum of the American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY
•Clay and Fibers, North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Best of APNQ - Latimer Quilt and Textile Center Special Exhibit, Tillamook, OR
•Hanging By a Thread, Northern Arizona University Art Museum and Galleries, Flagstaff, AZ
•Small Works, The Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster, OH
•Reflections, Gilmartin Gallery, University Unitarian Church, Seattle, WA
•Erika Carter, Contemporary Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, Wa (SOLO)
1996
•Materials: Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•1996 Fiber Arts Competition and Exhibition, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
•1996 Great Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA (Award)
•Visions 1996: QuiltArt, Museum of San Diego History, San Diego, CA
•Hats, Shoes, Gloves, NWDC, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
•3rd Northwest Contemporary Quilts Invitational, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•The Contemporary Quilt, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
•Group Show, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend, WA
•Spur of the Moment: Contemporary Quilt Art, Mesolini & Amici Glass Showroom, Seattle, WA
1995
•Contemporary Northwest Quilts, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
•Quilt National '95, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH (Award of Merit)
•Northwest Art Quilts, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
•Quilts: Cutting Edges, Jacobs Gallery, Hult Center, Eugene, OR
•Quilts by Members of SAQA, Museum of the American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY
•Northwest International Competition, Allied Arts of Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
•Celebrate Art Quilts: Oregon & Washington, The Garret Gallery, Lancaster, OH
•Soft Cuts, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
•SAQA/NW 1995, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
•Nonstop Northwest, American Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
1994
•Materials: Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•Visions: Quilts, Layers of Excellence, Museum of San Diego History, CA (Traveling Exhibition)
•Artist As Quiltmaker VI, FAVA, Oberlin, OH
•Erika Carter, Parameters, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO_
•New Work: Makers, Methods, Meaning, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
•Quilts: Piecing It All Together, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
•PNNAG 1994 Annual Juried Fiber Show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Best of Show Award)
•Artist Trust 6th Annual Art Auction, Seattle, WA
•NWDC Show, Janet Huston Gallery, La Conner, Wa •World of Quilts XV, John F. Kennedy High School, Somers, NY
•American Quilter's Society Tenth Annual Quilt Show, Paducah, KY
•Great Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Seattle Center, WA
•Portals, Doorways, Openings, Allied Arts, Richland, WA
•Fiber Arts Show, North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Washington Quilt Artists in Washington D.C., Senator Patty Murray's Office, Washington D.C.
1993
•Crafts America - The Northwest, Renwick Museum Shop, Washington, D.C.
•Quilt National '93, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH (Traveling Exhibition)
•Kansas Fiber Directions '93, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS (Best of Show Award)
•Erika Carter, Art Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Invitational '93, The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
•NWDC Show, Art Center Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, WA
•Textiles, Metal and Wood, King County Arts Commission Gallery, Seattle, Wa
•Textile, Clay & Metal, Arts West, Seattle, WA
•Erika Carter, Exterior Wall Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
•The Art Pillow: Removing the Tag Under Penalty of Law, Kirkland Art Center, WA
•Contemporary Pictorial Quilts Exhibition, Kimball Arts Center, Park City, UT
•Chesapeake Quilt Festival, Towson, MD (Award)
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Exhibit, Bellevue Community College Gallery, Bellevue, WA
•Award Winning Quilts, Marymoor Museum, Redmond, WA
•Artsplash '93, Redmond Senior Center, Redmond, WA
•Keep the Pot Hot, Teahouse Kuan Yin, Seattle, WA
•Quilts: Covering the Earth, BASCC, Birmingham, MI
•Needle Expressions '92, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (Traveling Exhibition)
•Erika Carter, Art Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO)
•Erika Carter, Exterior Wall Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, WA (SOLO)
1992
•Kansas Fiber Directions '92, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS (Award)
•Artist as Quiltmaker V, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH
•PNNAG 1992 Annual Juried Fiber Show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Juror's Choice Award)
•Quilters' Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA (Juror's Choice Award, First Place)
•American Quilter's Society Eighth Annual Show, Paducah, KY
•Quilts: Out of the Mainstream, Red River Revel Arts Festival, Shreveport, LA
•Art Splash 92, Redmond Senior Center, Redmond, WA (Juror's Award)
•NWDC Show, Arts Council Gallery, Everett, WA
•NWDC Show, Ellensburg Art Gallery, Ellensburg, WA
•NWDC Show, Allied Arts Council, Richland, WA
•Mercer Island Visual Arts League 25th Summer Arts Festival, Mercer Island, WA (Second Place)
•Bellevue Art Museum Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue, Wa
•10th Annual Asheville Quilt Competition & Exhibit, Asheville, NC (First Place, Judges Choice)
•Voices, Tacoma Little Theater, Tacoma, WA
•Fiberarts Competition and Exhibition, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
1991
•Erika Carter: Modern American Art Quilts, Galleri Bennetter, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
•Quilt National '91, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH (Traveling Exhibition)
•14 Hands, The Quilt As Art, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
•By Design: The Quilt as Art, 20th Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle, WA
•Second Northwest Contemporary Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Fragments, 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza, Seattle, WA
•PNNAG 1991 Needle Arts and Fiber Show, Peter Kirk Gallery, Kirkland, WA
•Patterns of Identity, University of Washington, Bothell, WA (Award)
1990
•The Definitive American Contemporary Quilt, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NY, NY (Toured USA)
•Fabric Gardens, Osaka, Japan, (Bronze Award -- Tours Japan and USA)
•Visions - A New Decade, Museum of San Diego History, San Diego, CA
•Visual Arts Show, 44th Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•Artist as Quiltmaker IV, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Group Show, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
•Northwest Contemporary Fiber, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, MT
•Flight of Imagination: Quilts as Art, The Artworks, Ephrata, PA
•PNNAG 15th Annual Juried Fiber Show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Juror's Choice Award)
•Contemporary Quilt Association Show, New Pieces Gallery, Berkeley, CA
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Show, Allied Arts Association, Richland, WA
•Erika Carter: Contemporary Art Quilts, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO)
•Visual Textures, Cunningham Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
1989
Breaking New Ground, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
•American Quilter's Society Fourth Annual Show, Paducah, KY (Second Place)
•The Personal Icon, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
•Currents '89, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
•Galex 23, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
•Washington Crafts: Then and Now, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
•Paper/Fiber XII, The Arts Center, Iowa City, IA
•Piece by Piece: Contemporary Quilts, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Quilters Heritage Celebration, Sheraton Lancaster Resort, Lancaster, PA (Honorable Mention)
•Block Party Quilters Show, Bellevue, WA (Artist in Residence)
•Edmonds Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA
•Crafts 23 Exhibition, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, PA
•Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham, WA
•Mercer Island Visual Arts League 22nd Summer Arts Festival, Mercer Island, WA (Second Place)
•Visual Arts Show, 43rd Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•Northwest Contemporary Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•West Coast Quilt Show, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
•Silver Dollar City's 7th Annual Quilt Show, Branson, MO (First Place)
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY (Second Place)
1988
•The Wichita National 1988, Wichita Art Association, Inc., Wichita, KS (Second Place; Jack Lenor Larson, Juror)
•National Standards Council of American Embroiderers' Needle Expressions '88, Traveling Show
•Visual Arts Show, 42nd Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•West Coast Quilters Conference Invitational Quilt Exhibition, Yakima, WA
•Kansas Fiber Directions '88, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
•Contemporary Quilt Association, A Contemporary Theater, Seattle, WA
•About Fiber, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
•Silver Dollar City's 6th Annual Quilt Show, Branson, MO
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY (Juror's Award - Use of Color)
•NW Crafts '88, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
•American Quilter's Society Fourth Annual Show, Paducah, Kentucky
•Paper/Fiber XI, The Arts Center, Iowa City, IA
•The Manipulated Thread, Paxson Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
•Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild 13th Annual Juried Fiber Show 1988, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Juror's Choice Award)
1987
•Edmonds 31st Annual Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA
•Block Party Quilters Fourth Quilt Show, Redmond, WA
•Mercer Island Visual Arts League 21st Summer Arts Festival, Mercer Island, WA
•Art's Alive! '88, La Conner, WA
•Raintree Quilters Guild Quilt Show, Evansville, IN
•Kansas Fiber Directions '87, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (Juror's Choice Award)
•Silver Dollar City's 5th Annual Quilt Show, Branson, MO (Second Place)
•Fibers & Form, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
•Visual Arts Show, 41st Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•American Quilter's Society Third Annual Show, Paducah, KY
•Award Winning Quilts, Marymoor Museum, Redmond, WA
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Art's Alive! '87, La Conner, WA
•Contemporary Quilt Association Show, Edmonds Art Festival Museum, Edmunds, WA
•Wearable Art and Fiber Art Show, Kirkland Creative Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
1986
•Block Party Quilters Third Annual Quilt Show, Bellevue,WA (First Place - Most Original)
•Edmonds First Annual Quilt Show, Edmonds, WA (First Place)
•Nature in Fiber, VALA Arts, Kirkland, WA
•ARTQUILTSdreams, Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC
•Sacred Threads, Floris United Methodist Church, Herndon, VA
2018
•ArtQuilts Elements 2018, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
•18th Artist as Quiltmaker, Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, OH
•ARTQUILTSpassion, Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC
•Dusk to Dawn, SAQA, Traveling Exhibition
•It’s All Relative, The Wilder Building Gallery, Rochester, NY
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Moments in Fiber, PAQA-South, Cape fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
•2018 Quilts Unlimited, View, Old Forge, NY
•Art Quilts XXIII: Artistic Ecologies, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
2017
•Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
•Evolutions 2017, Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Golden, CO
•Interpretations: Conversations, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA
•Everything In Between, Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City, Utah
•ARTQUILTSrespite, Page-Walker Arts and History Center, Cary, NC, Lisa Ellis Juror's Award
•With These Hands, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH
•State of WA(ter), Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, LaConner, WA
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Moments in Fiber, PAQA-South, Cape Fear Studios, Fayetteville, NC
•2018 Quilts Unlimited, View, Old Forge, NY
2016
•My Corner of the World, SAQA, Stratford Perth Museum, Stratford, Ontario
•Fantastic Fibers 2016, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
•Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
•Tranquility, Studio Art Quilt Associates Traveling Exhibition
•Fiber Fusion, Surface Design Travel Exhibition
•Erika Carter: Contemporary Silk Art, Gallery Belltown Condominium, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Lasting Impressions, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2013
•Earlville Opera House Multi-Arts Center Gallery, Earlville, NY
2012
•Materials: Hard & Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
2011
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Art Quilts XVI: Something to Say, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
•National Fiber Directions Exhibition 2011, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
•The Art Quilt Experience, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY
•The American Art Company 11th Contemporary Quilt Invitational, Tacoma, WA
2010
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Art Quilts XV: Needleplay, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, AZ
2009
•Transitions, Revolution Gallery, Issaquah, WA (SOLO)
2008
•10th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational; American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2007
•Animalia, Allied Arts, Richland, WA
•Perspective: Evidence of Time, Festival of Quilts, National Exhibition Center, Birmingham, England (SOLO)
2006
•Focus on Form, Esveld Gallery, Columbia Basin College; Pasco, WA
•Looking Forward, Glancing Back, Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50; Bellevue Art Museum; WA
•9th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational; American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Artist Trust Exhibition; Chase Gallery at City Hall, Spokane, WA
2005
•The Art Quilt; The Bainbridge Arts & Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
•A Contemporary Art Quilt Exhibition; Moses Lake Museum & Art Center; Moses Lake, WA
2004
•Redefining Quilts; Bruce Gallery; Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Edinboro, PA
•Visual Verse: Collaborations in Poetry and Cloth, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, OR
•Looking Forward, Glancing Back: Northwest Designer Craftsmen at 50, Whatcom Museum of History &
Art, Bellingham, WA
•Material Evidence: Clay, Fiber, Glass, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•The Quilted Surface, Ronald L. Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN
•Art Quilts at the Sedgwick, Sedgwick Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA
•Art Quilt Show XI, Alegre Retreat 2004, Sweeny Center, Santa Fe, NM
•Quilt Show at Edinboro University, Edinboro, \PA
•Allied Arts of Richland NWDC Exhibition, Richland, WA
•Pacific Northwest Quiltfest, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
2003
•Art Quilt Show X, Alegre Retreat 2003, Sweeny Center, Santa Fe, NM
•Quilt National “03, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Branching Out, Northwest Fine Woodworking, Bellevue, WA
•Quilts = Art = Quilts 2003, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Inspiration – Improvisation – Interpretation, Quilt & Art, Muhlhein am Main, Germany
•7th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
2002
•Fiber and Clay in the Year of the Horse”, Triad Gallery, Seal Rock, OR
•The Quilted Surface: International Comtemporary Art Quilts; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
•Art Quilt Show VIII, Alegre Retreat 2002, Sweeny Center, Santa Fe, NM
•Summer Breeze: Northwest Fiber Arts Invitational, The Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
•Erika Carter: New Art Quilts/Discharged Textiles, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO)
•Fiber Transitions, Larson Gallery, Yakima, WA (SOLO)
2001
•NWDC: Evidence of the Body; Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
•6th Northwest Contemporary Art Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Living Tradition: Contemporary American Quilts, Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
•Colores Del Mundo, Museo De La Nacion, Lima, Peru
•Quilt National ‘01, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Invitational, City Arts Gallery, Wichita, KS
•Inside Looking Out, Solo Show, Oak Hollow Gallery, Yakima, WA (SOLO)
2000
•Inspirations, Improvisations, Interpretations, Traveling Show, Germany
•Art Quilt Show VIII, Alegre Retreat, Santa Fe, NM
•Group Show, Thirteen Moons Gallery, Santa Fee, NM
•LightHEARTedly Speaking, BKB & Company, Tacoma, WA
•2nd Annual Textile Exhibit, Bradiggins Art Gallery, Hillsborough, NC
•Art Quilt 2000, ONDA Gallery, Portland, OR
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Exhibit, Allied Arts, Richland, WA
•Erika Carter, American Visions, St. Louis, MO (SOLO)
•Inner Momentum, Bradiggins Art Gallery, Hillsborough, NC (SOLO)
•Art Quilts by Erika Carter, Mercer Island Gallery, Mercer Island, WA (SOLO)
1999
•5th Northwest Contemporary Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Quilt National '99, Dairy Barn Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Alegre Retreat Art Quilt Show VI, Santa Fe, NM
•Quilts in Bloom, Mainau, Germany
•Materials: Hard & Soft Exhibition, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•Fourteenth Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Art Center Gallery, Warensburg, MO
•Pajaro Valley Quilt Show, Santa Cruz, C
•Erika Carter, Plaza 600, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
•Erika Carter, Attachmate, Bellevue, WA (SOLO)
1998
•Muse of the Millennium, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA
•More than Surface, Hill County Arts Foundation, Ingram, TX
•4th Northwest Contemporary Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•A Celebration of Women, Janet Laurel Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Artists for Colorado's Youth Art Auction, Colorado History Museum, Denver, CO
•Variations in Oil, Wood, Fiber, Mercer Island Gallery, Mercer Island, WA
•VISIONS: Quilt Expressions, Museum of San Diego History, San Diego, CA
•The Great Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA (Judge's Choice Award)
•The American Quilt: From Craft to Finc Art, Davison Art Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, NY
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen, Allied Arts Center, Richland, WA
•Form and Freedom, International Quilt Festival, Houston, TX
1997
•Quilt National '97, Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH
•Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
•Greater Midwest International Exhibition XII, CMSU Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, MO
•Patterns of Progress, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA
•On the Edge: Northwest QuiltArt, Museum of the American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY
•Clay and Fibers, North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Best of APNQ - Latimer Quilt and Textile Center Special Exhibit, Tillamook, OR
•Hanging By a Thread, Northern Arizona University Art Museum and Galleries, Flagstaff, AZ
•Small Works, The Gallery at Studio B, Lancaster, OH
•Reflections, Gilmartin Gallery, University Unitarian Church, Seattle, WA
•Erika Carter, Contemporary Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, Wa (SOLO)
1996
•Materials: Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•1996 Fiber Arts Competition and Exhibition, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
•1996 Great Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA (Award)
•Visions 1996: QuiltArt, Museum of San Diego History, San Diego, CA
•Hats, Shoes, Gloves, NWDC, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
•3rd Northwest Contemporary Quilts Invitational, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•The Contemporary Quilt, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
•Group Show, Artisans on Taylor, Port Townsend, WA
•Spur of the Moment: Contemporary Quilt Art, Mesolini & Amici Glass Showroom, Seattle, WA
1995
•Contemporary Northwest Quilts, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
•Quilt National '95, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH (Award of Merit)
•Northwest Art Quilts, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
•Quilts: Cutting Edges, Jacobs Gallery, Hult Center, Eugene, OR
•Quilts by Members of SAQA, Museum of the American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY
•Northwest International Competition, Allied Arts of Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
•Celebrate Art Quilts: Oregon & Washington, The Garret Gallery, Lancaster, OH
•Soft Cuts, Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, WA
•SAQA/NW 1995, Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
•Nonstop Northwest, American Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
1994
•Materials: Hard and Soft, Center for the Visual Arts, Denton, TX
•Visions: Quilts, Layers of Excellence, Museum of San Diego History, CA (Traveling Exhibition)
•Artist As Quiltmaker VI, FAVA, Oberlin, OH
•Erika Carter, Parameters, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO_
•New Work: Makers, Methods, Meaning, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA
•Quilts: Piecing It All Together, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
•PNNAG 1994 Annual Juried Fiber Show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Best of Show Award)
•Artist Trust 6th Annual Art Auction, Seattle, WA
•NWDC Show, Janet Huston Gallery, La Conner, Wa •World of Quilts XV, John F. Kennedy High School, Somers, NY
•American Quilter's Society Tenth Annual Quilt Show, Paducah, KY
•Great Pacific Northwest Quilt Show, Seattle Center, WA
•Portals, Doorways, Openings, Allied Arts, Richland, WA
•Fiber Arts Show, North Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Washington Quilt Artists in Washington D.C., Senator Patty Murray's Office, Washington D.C.
1993
•Crafts America - The Northwest, Renwick Museum Shop, Washington, D.C.
•Quilt National '93, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH (Traveling Exhibition)
•Kansas Fiber Directions '93, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS (Best of Show Award)
•Erika Carter, Art Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Invitational '93, The Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
•NWDC Show, Art Center Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, WA
•Textiles, Metal and Wood, King County Arts Commission Gallery, Seattle, Wa
•Textile, Clay & Metal, Arts West, Seattle, WA
•Erika Carter, Exterior Wall Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
•The Art Pillow: Removing the Tag Under Penalty of Law, Kirkland Art Center, WA
•Contemporary Pictorial Quilts Exhibition, Kimball Arts Center, Park City, UT
•Chesapeake Quilt Festival, Towson, MD (Award)
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Exhibit, Bellevue Community College Gallery, Bellevue, WA
•Award Winning Quilts, Marymoor Museum, Redmond, WA
•Artsplash '93, Redmond Senior Center, Redmond, WA
•Keep the Pot Hot, Teahouse Kuan Yin, Seattle, WA
•Quilts: Covering the Earth, BASCC, Birmingham, MI
•Needle Expressions '92, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (Traveling Exhibition)
•Erika Carter, Art Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO)
•Erika Carter, Exterior Wall Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, WA (SOLO)
1992
•Kansas Fiber Directions '92, The Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS (Award)
•Artist as Quiltmaker V, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH
•PNNAG 1992 Annual Juried Fiber Show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Juror's Choice Award)
•Quilters' Heritage Celebration, Lancaster, PA (Juror's Choice Award, First Place)
•American Quilter's Society Eighth Annual Show, Paducah, KY
•Quilts: Out of the Mainstream, Red River Revel Arts Festival, Shreveport, LA
•Art Splash 92, Redmond Senior Center, Redmond, WA (Juror's Award)
•NWDC Show, Arts Council Gallery, Everett, WA
•NWDC Show, Ellensburg Art Gallery, Ellensburg, WA
•NWDC Show, Allied Arts Council, Richland, WA
•Mercer Island Visual Arts League 25th Summer Arts Festival, Mercer Island, WA (Second Place)
•Bellevue Art Museum Pacific Northwest Annual, Bellevue, Wa
•10th Annual Asheville Quilt Competition & Exhibit, Asheville, NC (First Place, Judges Choice)
•Voices, Tacoma Little Theater, Tacoma, WA
•Fiberarts Competition and Exhibition, Creative Arts Guild, Dalton, GA
1991
•Erika Carter: Modern American Art Quilts, Galleri Bennetter, Stockholm, Sweden (SOLO)
•Quilt National '91, The Dairy Barn, Athens, OH (Traveling Exhibition)
•14 Hands, The Quilt As Art, Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis, OR
•By Design: The Quilt as Art, 20th Northwest Folklife Festival, Seattle, WA
•Second Northwest Contemporary Quilt Invitational, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•Fragments, 1001 Fourth Avenue Plaza, Seattle, WA
•PNNAG 1991 Needle Arts and Fiber Show, Peter Kirk Gallery, Kirkland, WA
•Patterns of Identity, University of Washington, Bothell, WA (Award)
1990
•The Definitive American Contemporary Quilt, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NY, NY (Toured USA)
•Fabric Gardens, Osaka, Japan, (Bronze Award -- Tours Japan and USA)
•Visions - A New Decade, Museum of San Diego History, San Diego, CA
•Visual Arts Show, 44th Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•Artist as Quiltmaker IV, FAVA Gallery, Oberlin, OH
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Group Show, Bellevue Art Museum, WA
•Northwest Contemporary Fiber, Paris Gibson Square, Great Falls, MT
•Flight of Imagination: Quilts as Art, The Artworks, Ephrata, PA
•PNNAG 15th Annual Juried Fiber Show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Juror's Choice Award)
•Contemporary Quilt Association Show, New Pieces Gallery, Berkeley, CA
•Northwest Designer Craftsmen Show, Allied Arts Association, Richland, WA
•Erika Carter: Contemporary Art Quilts, American Art Company, Tacoma, WA (SOLO)
•Visual Textures, Cunningham Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (SOLO)
1989
Breaking New Ground, New England Quilt Museum, Lowell, MA
•American Quilter's Society Fourth Annual Show, Paducah, KY (Second Place)
•The Personal Icon, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
•Currents '89, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
•Galex 23, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
•Washington Crafts: Then and Now, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
•Paper/Fiber XII, The Arts Center, Iowa City, IA
•Piece by Piece: Contemporary Quilts, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
•Quilters Heritage Celebration, Sheraton Lancaster Resort, Lancaster, PA (Honorable Mention)
•Block Party Quilters Show, Bellevue, WA (Artist in Residence)
•Edmonds Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA
•Crafts 23 Exhibition, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, PA
•Northwest International Art Competition, Whatcom Museum of History & Art, Bellingham, WA
•Mercer Island Visual Arts League 22nd Summer Arts Festival, Mercer Island, WA (Second Place)
•Visual Arts Show, 43rd Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•Northwest Contemporary Quilts, The American Art Company, Tacoma, WA
•West Coast Quilt Show, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA
•Silver Dollar City's 7th Annual Quilt Show, Branson, MO (First Place)
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY (Second Place)
1988
•The Wichita National 1988, Wichita Art Association, Inc., Wichita, KS (Second Place; Jack Lenor Larson, Juror)
•National Standards Council of American Embroiderers' Needle Expressions '88, Traveling Show
•Visual Arts Show, 42nd Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•West Coast Quilters Conference Invitational Quilt Exhibition, Yakima, WA
•Kansas Fiber Directions '88, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
•Contemporary Quilt Association, A Contemporary Theater, Seattle, WA
•About Fiber, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
•Silver Dollar City's 6th Annual Quilt Show, Branson, MO
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY (Juror's Award - Use of Color)
•NW Crafts '88, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
•American Quilter's Society Fourth Annual Show, Paducah, Kentucky
•Paper/Fiber XI, The Arts Center, Iowa City, IA
•The Manipulated Thread, Paxson Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
•Pacific Northwest Needle Arts Guild 13th Annual Juried Fiber Show 1988, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (Juror's Choice Award)
1987
•Edmonds 31st Annual Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA
•Block Party Quilters Fourth Quilt Show, Redmond, WA
•Mercer Island Visual Arts League 21st Summer Arts Festival, Mercer Island, WA
•Art's Alive! '88, La Conner, WA
•Raintree Quilters Guild Quilt Show, Evansville, IN
•Kansas Fiber Directions '87, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (Juror's Choice Award)
•Silver Dollar City's 5th Annual Quilt Show, Branson, MO (Second Place)
•Fibers & Form, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
•Visual Arts Show, 41st Pacific Northwest Arts & Crafts Fair, Bellevue, WA
•American Quilter's Society Third Annual Show, Paducah, KY
•Award Winning Quilts, Marymoor Museum, Redmond, WA
•Quilts=Art=Quilts, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
•Art's Alive! '87, La Conner, WA
•Contemporary Quilt Association Show, Edmonds Art Festival Museum, Edmunds, WA
•Wearable Art and Fiber Art Show, Kirkland Creative Arts Center, Kirkland, WA
1986
•Block Party Quilters Third Annual Quilt Show, Bellevue,WA (First Place - Most Original)
•Edmonds First Annual Quilt Show, Edmonds, WA (First Place)
