Carl Gunhouse

 Carl Gunhouse was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1976. But he grew up in suburban New Jersey where he developed a love/hate relationship with his surroundings that lead in turn to the angst so familiar to suburban youth. This unrest led to his discovery of hardcore punk rock and, through participating in the hardcore scene, to a love of photography.

In an attempt to move to New York City, Carl found himself enrolled in Fordham University. While completing his BA in European History, he discovered that photography could be a reasonable thing to pursue as career and simultaneously completed a BFA in Photography from Fordham. After completing his MA in American History from Fordham, Carl threw himself into finding a clear expression of his suburban angst through street photography. To try to mature and develop as an artist, Carl completed an MFA in Photography from Yale University.

Since graduating, he has produced a body of landscape photographs that deal with his complex personal relationship to suburbia. He has found a great deal of personal satisfaction teaching as an Adjunct at Montclair State University, Cooper Union, and Nassau Community College. He also has also gained some renown for his straightforward writing on photography for such web sites as Skuawk and Big Red and Shiny. His photography has been shown in New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Florida, Connecticut and Italy. As an artist, he hopes to take his investigation of the suburban experience national by driving around the United States and expoloring what it is to be an American. Carl currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.