Carolyn Carr received her B.F.A. from the Atlanta College of Art.

Carr has had an extensive studio practice in Downtown Atlanta and along the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina up to the Western Catskills of New York State. She is a painter, photographer, sculptor, and installation artist who has been active in the Atlanta arts community. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions and art fairs in the United States, Asia, and Central Europe, including Artists Space, New York, the Cue Foundation, New York, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the National Women's Museum in Washington D.C., and the Zuckerman Museum of Art.

Today, Carr continues working on new works on paper, paintings, sculptures, and growing pigments in her garden.