Chris Carl

Chris Carl’s work operates between public art, ecology, and landscape architecture. He is an artist and landscape designer (MLA) and the founder of Studio Land Arts. His projects have been developed in collaboration with the Granite City Art and Design District (GCADD), the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Kiku Obata & Company, the Griot Museum of Black History, and the St. Clair County Greenspace Foundation.

Carl is the current resident artist at GCADD, where he built and maintains the experimental gardens Slot Lot and Pilot Plot while deconstructing buildings into new architectural forms. He has also been a resident artist at the Tarble Arts Center and Franconia Sculpture Park and worked alongside the late David Monk at HeartLand Pathways. He completed internships at Elsewhere Living Museum and the Contemporary Arts Museum St. Louis. Carl is the recipient of multiple public art grants supporting long-term, site-based work.

Notable projects include Park-Like, Allman’s Boneyard and Saline, and Inter-Urban. Across these works, Carl engages post-industrial and transitional landscapes as active cultural ground—designing spaces that integrate environmental process, speculative architecture, and constructed form.