Carrie Yamaoka (b. 1957, Glen Cove, New York) is an artist whose materially inventive practice spans painting, photography, and installation. Working with reflective polyester film, resin, and other industrial surfaces, she creates works that shift with changing light and viewer position, implicating perception as an active, temporal experience. Often beginning with photographic or drawn marks—scratches, erasures, or stains—her process embraces accident and alteration, allowing images to hover between emergence and disappearance. Yamaoka’s work has been exhibited internationally, with recent presentations at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Her work is held in the collections of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. She is a co-founder of the queer art collective fierce pussy. In 2024, Yamaoka was awarded the prestigious Maria Lassnig Prize, recognizing her decades-long contributions to contemporary art. She lives and works in New York City.