Carrie Kouts (1995) was born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 2019, she received her BFA in sculpture from the University of Central Oklahoma. She lives and works in Providence, RI, pursuing her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. Kouts' practice playfully interrogates the transitory and undefined borders between human and non-human, natural and unnatural, scientific and instinctual, organic and synthetic, domestic and feral. Rather than binary categories, she approaches these divisions as continually shifting lines, asking when and where our environment is becoming. Each of her installations utilizes found materials and roadkill - defined by Kouts as casualties at the periphery of classification. Discarded furniture, animal bodies, displaced belongings, and construction debris become outside of Outside, existing between the intangible intermediate of nature and the anthropogenic, where organic and synthetic lose contrast. 

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Kouts' work has been exhibited in various public and private venues, including the Oklahoma Contemporary for ArtNow 21', the 21C Museum Hotel, and as a spotlight artist in Momentum OKC, where she was honored with the viewer's choice award. Beyond her artistic endeavors, Kouts is deeply committed to Urban Ecology research and conservation efforts, collaborating with experts in entomology and mammalogy through citizen science programs in MA and RI.