Carter Foster is the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. After completing his undergraduate degree in art history from UGA, he earned his Master’s degree in 1991 from Brown University. After holding positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the New York Public Library, he joined the staff of the drawing department at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1996 and became its chief in 2002. While there, he co-curated the first major exhibition of Cleveland’s drawing collection, which toured to Houston and New York City among other places, and co-authored the accompanying catalogue. Carter joined the staff of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in early 2004 as Curator and Co-chair of the Department of Prints and Drawings. In 2005, he moved back to New York City to serve as the curator of drawing at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Foster worked for the Whitney for eleven years, facilitating the construction of a study room specifically for works on paper.
