Mary Ellen Carroll
Mary Ellen Carroll / MEC, studios is a Conceptual artist/activist. Carroll lives and works in New York City. Her career survey exhibition will open in 2025 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston with other venues to be announced in the United States, Asia and Europe. In 2018, Carroll cofounded DYKWTCA (Do You Know Where the Children Are?) with Lucas Michael to address critical issues in migration and climate affecting the most vulnerable. DYKWTCA.com
In the summer of 2023, I was standing on the southwest corner of 47th Street and 8th Avenue in Manhattan with two individuals—both of whom, as unaccompanied immigrant children (UICs), walked from the “Northern Triangle” in Central America at different times to cross the southern border into Texas.
