Originally from Buffalo, New York, Carrie Markello lived and worked in Texas from 1981-2024. Her mixed media artwork has been included in regional, national, and international group exhibitions. In 2018, Markello’s work was selected for Augusta Savage Gallery’s Home exhibition at the University of Massachusetts and for the National Art Education Women’s Caucus Exhibition in Seattle, Washington. Markello exhibited in Houston’s Lawndale Art Center’s Layered Evidence and Big Shows in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2013, 2014, and 2024. In a solo exhibition at Houston Community College’s Northline Gallery in 2008, Markello exhibited her mixed-media paintings. In 2005, Markello’s paintings were selected by Dominic Molon, associate curator of the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago, for the Assistance League of Houston exhibition at Williams Tower. Art critic Jerry Saltz selected her mixed-media painting, Kay, for the two-year traveling exhibition, New American Talent that opened at the Arthouse in Austin in 2004.

Her mixed-media paintings were the subject of a solo exhibition at Mountain View College, Dallas in 1996. In collaboration with artist, Linda Hayward, Markello and Hayward created Zone V, a line of dryer lint clothing exhibited in Fotofest 2002 and at Poissant Gallery’s Fashionista exhibition in Houston. Markello exhibited at the Houston Art League in Strands, a two-person exhibition with Jay Hill in 2003. In 2024, Zone V pieces not included in private collections became a part of the Houston Community College’s Fashion Archive.

Receiving her doctorate in art education in 2006, Markello taught art and museum education courses at the University of Houston until her retirement in 2017. Relocating to San Diego, California, in 2024, she was selected to exhibit in the It’s OK, But It Ain’t Right exhibition at the 2025 Woodward Contemporary. Her work was chosen for the Art on 30th juried exhibitions Out of the Blue, Golden Autumn in 2024 and for The Merry Month of May, Baywatch, Potluck, and Fall in Love exhibitions and for the National Blackout exhibition at Art on 30^th in 2025. Markello paintings were included in the SDWS juried member exhibitions Nature’s Alchemy, Growth in Motion, Everybody Tells a Story, Driven to Extraction, A Call to Action, and Reflections in Play. Her award-winning painting, El Mercado en Oaxaca was included in SDWS’s 45th International exhibition at Liberty Station.