John Carrid is a self-taught artist who stands at the intersection of contemporary and singular art. His eclectic, uncensored life is one of the major sources of his inspiration, which he draws upon with a certain rigor. He uses video, materials, painting, photography, writing, and recycled media and objects depending on his projects, most often creating in a series format. Composing his works through assemblages, collages, and superimpositions, he plays as much with opacity as with transparency, with analogy as with incongruity. ​ When it comes to video works, he works with texture, situation, movement, rhythm, and sound as significant mediums, regularly staging himself (inside/outside). In all cases, John Carrid explores themes of sexuality, identity, and the unsightly, and his artistic output remains a ceaseless flow of representations that speak to us as much about social exclusion as it does about individual freedom.

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