Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist who lives and works in New York City. The artist has exhibited at Whitney Museum, Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, ICA London, PS1-New York, The Menil Collection in Houston, and MUMOK in Vienna. Early life and education Mary Ellen Carroll lives in New York City. Carroll received a Bachelor of Science degree and minored in fine art and worked with Betty Woodman and made films when Stan Brakhage taught at the University of Colorado Boulder. Carroll received a Master in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Teaching, Lectures, and Public Presentations Teaching, lecturing and public presentations in architecture, art, and policy are an important part of Carroll’s work, stating that, “architecture is inherently a political act.” Institutions have included architecture/public policy programs at Rice University, Columbia University, Yale University, Princeton University and the DIA Art Foundation amongst others. Notable artworks • prototype 180 "makes architecture perform as a work of art" that is literally a ground-shifting exercise, in that it structurally involved the 180 degree rotation, back to front, of a house and its surrounding land in the development of Sharpstown, a suburb of Houston, Texas. Following the rotation, the structure was unbuilt in a choreographed demolition on November 11, 2017. Part III will be the rebuilding of the structure that is slated to begin in 2022. It will once again become an occupied structure that will function as an institute for the study of considered urbanism with a micro ethno-botanic garden . In planning for over a decade, prototype 180 is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology." Carroll was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Rice University and co-directed a graduate studio with the architect Charles Renfro | Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. • indestructible language is the large scale neon work on the climate emergency. It was the inaugural commission by the Precipice Alliance in 2006, the first international organization to commission high-profile, large-scale works of art on the subject of global warming. The project intentionally sited and temporarily located at the former American Can Company factory in Jersey City, New Jersey and consists of illuminated characters spelling out: IT IS GREEN THINKS NATURE EVEN IN THE DARK. 'indestructible language was installed for the UN's Climate Summit — COP26 in Glasgow and was initially illuminated on Saturday, October