Carrie Scanga attended Bryn Mawr College as an undergraduate and earned an MFA in Printmaking from University of Washington. Her work has been included in solo and group exhibitions in commercial galleries, artist-run spaces, and museums, including the Portland Museum of Art, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid. Fellowship awards from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, and Fundación Valparaíso have supported the development of her work. Currently based in Maine, she is professor of printmaking at Bowdoin College.

My work invites viewers into a private, unfolding space of narrative imagery.
The objects and spaces I depict in my artist book editions evoke paradoxical feelings: fragility and security, isolation and exposure, loneliness and connection. A backpack, for example, offers both weight and containment. It is both personal and symbolic, private yet intrinsically linked to social identity and ritual.
At the heart of my practice is a desire to understand the human experiences of connection and isolation. Through visual language, I seek to uncover what is universal in these experiences, ultimately helping both myself and others feel solace or joy.