John Davis Carroll is a fine art visual artist. He is represented by Pi Art Gallery in Kansas City and shows nationally. Carroll curated the Dr. Sketchy Art Show of Kansas City in the Summer of 2009 at the Pi. He received a "Best of Show" for his New Media Construction "Winter" in Small Works 2009 at NYU, New York City and for his Painting "Nicholson Ave" at the Art of the Center 2008 in Overland Park, Kansas. Currently, Carroll is an adjunct assistant professor of life drawing in the M.F.A. program of Theatre Design at the University of Missouri Kansas City and adjunct assistant professor for the Visual Art Department of Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. Carroll was born in 1964 and grew up in Natick, Massachusetts. He attended Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Ma. where he graduated with a B.F.A. in Painting in 1987. Swain was a small private art college. The professors in the painting department had a uniquely strong program with its history coming from the School of Hans Hofmann, Albers from Yale and Cooper Union. It also had important figures in the world of painting visiting the school such as Wolf Kahn, Paul Georges, Leonard Anderson and Gretna Campbell. After graduating from Swain he entered Parsons School of Design in New York City in 1988 to study painting under Larry Rivers, Leland Bell and Paul Resika. Visiting artists included, Robert De Niro Sr., Nell Blaine, Jane Freilicher and Leatrice Rose. The program accepted ten students a year. Graduating with a M.F.A. in Painting in 1990, Carroll lived in New York City for another 3 years. In 1993 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri where he currently resides with his wife and painter Marci Aylward.
