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John Michael Carter
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John Michael Carter was born in Chicago, Illinois. He began his first studies in drawing with his father at the age of 16. In 1968, he attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago. In 1970, Mr. Carter moved to Los Angeles where he attended the Art Center College of Design. He graduated in 1972 with a B.F.A. Degree.
For ten years, Mr. Carter taught drawing and painting for the University of Kentucky at Jefferson Community College. He also has been a frequent guest instructor at art workshops across the country including the Scottsdale Artist School, the Dallas Arts League, and the Arts Club of Cincinnati.
Since 1975, he has had 27 one man shows and participated in many group exhibitions and national competitions. He has exhibited with Grand Central Gallery in New York. In 1988 Mr. Carter was one of the four top award winners at the "Arts for the Parks" competition and he was one of fifty artists selected to show at the 1991 Hubbard Museum "Award for Excellence". Most recently John Michael won the "Best of Show" award in the prestigious Oil Painters of America show 2004.
Mr. Carter's portraits include governors, senators and university presidents as well as corporate and civic leaders. His paintings hang in the collections of Phillips Petroleum Corporation; TRW Corporation, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky; the McDonalds Museum in DesPlaines, Illinois; the Patton Museum, Fort Knox, Kentucky; the State Capitol Museum in Franfort, Kentucky, and in many other corporate collections.
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