PERSONAL STRUCTURES

Carrie Able is a New York-based multidisciplinary artist, musician, and XR pioneer whose practice spans oil painting, virtual reality, live performance, choreography, and original music. Named by Forbes as a leading pioneer in XR Art, Able has spent over a decade interrogating the boundaries between traditional studio practice and immersive technology — breaking barriers and promoting inclusivity across the cross-disciplines of music, art, and emerging technology.

Able has performed and exhibited across the world, from SXSW and Art Basel Miami to Palazzo Mora in Venice, the World’s Fair in Dubai, and virtual worlds in VR. She was the first musical artist to perform at the Microsoft Garage in New York — a live full-band performance accompanied by hand-painted VR projections and an exhibition of immersive VR works — and has delivered keynote speeches on creativity and emerging technology across the US, Europe, and Asia. Her solo exhibitions with the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures, Venice have linked interactive XR works, music, and traditional media to audiences of 500,000+.

Central to Able’s practice is G.A.M.E. — the Guided Arts Media Experience — a framework she developed to collapse the distance between artist and audience. Stepping into a VR headset, visitors inhabit fully painted, 360-degree environments while connecting in real time with viewers around the world — present within the same visual field while separated by continents. In parallel, her oil paintings on linen extend the project’s visual language into physical form, grounding work of extraordinary technological scope in paint and canvas. Her forthcoming full-band album and coordinating 360-degree VR visual experience, Paint the Silence, represent the full convergence of these disciplines — a project in which sound is the generative force, and painting, movement, and digital space are its consequences. As Mike Pell, Global Director of Innovation at Microsoft, puts it: “Carrie Able is the person to bring the Metaverse to the mainstream.