About Turner Carroll Gallery
Museum Collected Artworks
We’ve placed important works by Philip Guston, the most significant Camille Claudel work on the international art market, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Judy Chicago, Frank Stella, Swoon, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Shepard Fairey, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, Virgil Ortiz, William Wiley, Christo, Claes Oldenburg, Alice Neel, Hung Liu, and other of the most influential and sought after artists in the world.
Art Historians on Staff
When you come to Turner Carroll, you’ll always find a person passionate about the history of art on site. Each member of our staff is experienced and knowledgeable about the history of art and the criteria that make an artwork timeless not only aesthetically, but as a sound investment, as well. From ancient art to cutting edge contemporary, Turner Carroll has vast expertise across the world of art.
Art Advisory Services Available by Contract
Whether you are forming a new collection, or you are a longstanding collector, we are ready to help you gain access to rare artworks. We are available to accompany you to top art fairs, research provenance on works you are considering, and create a database to track your physical and aspirational collection, and write scholarly content about your collection and the artworks in the collection. These services are available on a contractual basis, and require a fee. Please send your request to us at mc@turnercarrollgallery.com or tonya@turnercarrollgallery.com
Appraisal Services Available by Contract
For estate planning and liquidation, insurance purposes, as well as for tax deductibility of donated artworks, collectors regularly find themselves in need of appraisals. Turner Carroll can provide these professional services for you on a contractual basis. Please contact mc@turnercarrollgallery.com for your appraisal needs.
Artwork Deaccessioning Available by Contract
We welcome the opportunity to resell artworks by major established artists, as well as select emerging artists. Please contact tonya@turnercarrollgallery.com with the name of the artist/s whose work you wish to resell.
More Information
We proudly exhibit the following contemporary artists: John Barker, Jamie Brunson, Sharon Brush, Natalie Christensen, FAILE, Traian A. Filip, Angela Ellsworth, Raphaëlle Goethals, Scott Greene, Clarence Heyward, Etsuko Ichikawa, Mokha Laget, Marietta Patricia Leis, Igor Melnikov, Douglas Miles, Greg Murr, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Virgil Ortiz, Rex Ray, Walter Robinson, Rusty Scruby, Matt Shlian, Hunt Slonem, Shawn Smith, Swoon, Drew Tal, Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Karen Yank.
In addition, we have a robust secondary market platform for resales. Curated resales include pieces by Judy Chicago, Hung Liu, Leslie Dill, Jim Dine, Joseph Eads, Kiki Smith, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Charles Arnoldi, Nicola Lopez, Philip Guston, Alfred Jensen, Louise Bourgeois, Vernon Fisher, and others.
From 2022 through 2025, Turner Carroll Gallery operated [CONTAINER] at 1226 Flagman Way in Santa Fe in a very special building made of shipping containers. [CONTAINER] originated and brought touring museum exhibitions to the artistic heartland of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our exhibitions including Nadya Tolokonnikova, Swoon, Virgil Ortiz, Jess T. Dugan, Stephen Hayes, and Clarence Heyward, Mokha Laget, and others toured nationally and internationally. For more information about [CONTAINER] see the Santa Fe Reporter Article “Double Vision: Seeing is believing for Turner Carroll Gallery’s founders”. Written by Alex De Vore, Santa Fe Reporter, April 3, 2024.
Turner Carroll Gallery Founders
Michael Carroll
A 1988 graduate of the history department at Duke University, Michael Carroll co-founded Turner Carroll Gallery in 1991 with his wife Tonya. Michael brings a historical perspective to curating Turner Carroll exhibitions, and he studied the arts at Duke University, New York University, and in Moscow St. Petersburg.
Michael was a two-term, past president of the Santa Fe Gallery Association, and was twice named one of the 40 most influential New Mexicans under 40 years of age. In addition, he has helped raise several hundred thousand dollars for arts education through the SFGA’s charity arm, Art Smart. He is frequently asked to lecture on topics like artist-gallery relations.
When Eastern Europe underwent historic changes economically and politically in the late 1980s, Michael designed curatorial trips and exhibitions around these themes. In the past fifteen years his focus on the use of craft in fine art, the work of women artists, and the work of people of color and their stories has taken the gallery in a new direction. Michael is also an avid collector of contemporary art, and original work in his collection includes pieces by Kara Walker, Judy Chicago, Hung Liu, Louise Nevelson, Mulyana, Sui Park, Frances Gallardo, Richard Hambleton, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Charles White, Agnes Martin, Agnes Pelton, Arthur Dove, Diego Rivera, Diana al-Hadid, Stephen Hayes, Florence Pierce, Rex Ray, Natalya Goncharova, Sonya Clark, and Teresa Baker.
Michael Carroll is an Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, which represents the highest level of achievement and expertise in appraisals and deaccession planning. Michael’s specialty is Postwar, Contemporary and Emerging Art, and he can help collectors with artwork appraisals, philanthropic strategy, and artwork deaccession. Please visit his appraisal page for more information and contact mc@turnercarrollgallery.com for your appraisal needs.
Tonya Turner Carroll
Tonya Turner Carroll graduated with a degree in contemporary art history as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina. Tonya also studied ancient Roman and Italian art history at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, as well as Hebrew University in Jerusalem where she worked on exhibitions of ancient middle eastern at The Israel Museum as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar.
Tonya has experience working with established art institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where her subject material was 19th Century European Art, as well as Sotheby’s London, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. She has served on the boards of the Ackland Museum of Art, Judy Chicago’s Through the Flower, the Albuquerque Museum, and 516 Arts, while serving various support roles at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Tonya Turner Carroll and husband Michael Carroll founded Turner Carroll Gallery in 1991 with the mission of exhibiting artists whose groundbreaking works deserve to be viewed by the incredible collectors of Canyon Road, regardless of their existing or emerging prestige and level of cultural marginalization. The pair also operated [CONTAINER], a museum space where they hosted, curated, and originated internationally touring museum exhibitions.
In the 35 years since Turner Carroll Gallery was founded, Tonya and Michael have accomplished a number of art historical milestones. Turner Carroll Gallery placed Judy Chicago’s print archive with one of the most prestigious print collections in the US, and arranged the Getty Research Institute’s acquisition of Russian activist artist Nadya Tolokonnikova’s prison archive. Turner Carroll also set the North American sales record for work by the 19th century French sculptress Camille Claudel–who was Rodin’s lesser known partner–after arranging the exhibition of Claudel’s most important autobiographical work at the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Turner Carroll also oversees the groundbreaking Landfall Press archive and the Christo and Jeanne-Claude family collection of prints and multiples.
Tonya Turner Carroll worked closely with world-renowned Chinese artist Hung Liu, curating a selection of 56 of Liu’s artworks to be added to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s collection. After Liu’s death, Tonya planned Liu’s legacy strategy, and facilitated the collector purchases of major Hung Liu works which were acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Williams College Art Museum, Nasher Museum of Art, and Taubman Museum of Art. She looks forward to publishing more award-winning art historical monographs and securing the estates and legacies of world renowned artists.
Tonya’s current projects include researching prehistoric depictions of women from the Mediterranean basin and how this early art reveals women’s cultural and intellectual contributions from before recorded history.
Art Advisory and Curatorial Services for Private and Public Collectors
Turner Carroll works closely with all levels of public and private collectors, in both the U.S. and internationally. Turner Carroll takes an art historical approach to helping collectors visualize their aesthetic and intellectual desires for their collection, presenting artworks to them which not only meet their objectives, but which expose them to new ideas and opportunities, as well. Turner Carroll prides itself in establishing long term relationships with collectors purchasing works through the gallery, helping them express their artistic interests coherently, through a carefully curated collection. Turner Carroll offers art advisory services from concept development and sourcing sought after artworks, to art education, research, studio visits, acquisition, and de-accessioning.
Over the decades, Turner Carroll has worked as independent curator with such museums as the Sangre de Cristo Art Center (Pueblo, Colorado), and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Kalamazoo, Michigan). Corporate clients Turner Carroll has advised include the Four Seasons Resort (Punta Mita, Mexico); Sidley Law Firm (Dallas, Texas); La Posada de Santa Fe, a Rock Resort (Santa Fe, New Mexico); and The St. Regis (Punta Mita, Mexico).
Gallery Affiliations
About Turner Carroll Gallery
Museum Collected Artworks
We’ve placed important works by Philip Guston, the most significant Camille Claudel work on the international art market, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Judy Chicago, Frank Stella, Swoon, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Shepard Fairey, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, Virgil Ortiz, William Wiley, Christo, Claes Oldenburg, Alice Neel, Hung Liu, and other of the most influential and sought after artists in the world.
Art Historians on Staff
When you come to Turner Carroll, you’ll always find a person passionate about the history of art on site. Each member of our staff is experienced and knowledgeable about the history of art and the criteria that make an artwork timeless not only aesthetically, but as a sound investment, as well. From ancient art to cutting edge contemporary, Turner Carroll has vast expertise across the world of art.
Art Advisory Services Available by Contract
Whether you are forming a new collection, or you are a longstanding collector, we are ready to help you gain access to rare artworks. We are available to accompany you to top art fairs, research provenance on works you are considering, and create a database to track your physical and aspirational collection, and write scholarly content about your collection and the artworks in the collection. These services are available on a contractual basis, and require a fee. Please send your request to us at mc@turnercarrollgallery.com or tonya@turnercarrollgallery.com
Appraisal Services Available by Contract
For estate planning and liquidation, insurance purposes, as well as for tax deductibility of donated artworks, collectors regularly find themselves in need of appraisals. Turner Carroll can provide these professional services for you on a contractual basis. Please contact mc@turnercarrollgallery.com for your appraisal needs.
Artwork Deaccessioning Available by Contract
We welcome the opportunity to resell artworks by major established artists, as well as select emerging artists. Please contact tonya@turnercarrollgallery.com with the name of the artist/s whose work you wish to resell.
More Information
We proudly exhibit the following contemporary artists: John Barker, Jamie Brunson, Sharon Brush, Natalie Christensen, FAILE, Traian A. Filip, Angela Ellsworth, Raphaëlle Goethals, Scott Greene, Clarence Heyward, Etsuko Ichikawa, Mokha Laget, Marietta Patricia Leis, Igor Melnikov, Douglas Miles, Greg Murr, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Virgil Ortiz, Rex Ray, Walter Robinson, Rusty Scruby, Matt Shlian, Hunt Slonem, Shawn Smith, Swoon, Drew Tal, Nadya Tolokonnikova, and Karen Yank.
In addition, we have a robust secondary market platform for resales. Curated resales include pieces by Judy Chicago, Hung Liu, Leslie Dill, Jim Dine, Joseph Eads, Kiki Smith, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Charles Arnoldi, Nicola Lopez, Philip Guston, Alfred Jensen, Louise Bourgeois, Vernon Fisher, and others.
From 2022 through 2025, Turner Carroll Gallery operated [CONTAINER] at 1226 Flagman Way in Santa Fe in a very special building made of shipping containers. [CONTAINER] originated and brought touring museum exhibitions to the artistic heartland of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our exhibitions including Nadya Tolokonnikova, Swoon, Virgil Ortiz, Jess T. Dugan, Stephen Hayes, and Clarence Heyward, Mokha Laget, and others toured nationally and internationally. For more information about [CONTAINER] see the Santa Fe Reporter Article “Double Vision: Seeing is believing for Turner Carroll Gallery’s founders”. Written by Alex De Vore, Santa Fe Reporter, April 3, 2024.
Turner Carroll Gallery Founders
Michael Carroll
A 1988 graduate of the history department at Duke University, Michael Carroll co-founded Turner Carroll Gallery in 1991 with his wife Tonya. Michael brings a historical perspective to curating Turner Carroll exhibitions, and he studied the arts at Duke University, New York University, and in Moscow St. Petersburg.
Michael was a two-term, past president of the Santa Fe Gallery Association, and was twice named one of the 40 most influential New Mexicans under 40 years of age. In addition, he has helped raise several hundred thousand dollars for arts education through the SFGA’s charity arm, Art Smart. He is frequently asked to lecture on topics like artist-gallery relations.
When Eastern Europe underwent historic changes economically and politically in the late 1980s, Michael designed curatorial trips and exhibitions around these themes. In the past fifteen years his focus on the use of craft in fine art, the work of women artists, and the work of people of color and their stories has taken the gallery in a new direction. Michael is also an avid collector of contemporary art, and original work in his collection includes pieces by Kara Walker, Judy Chicago, Hung Liu, Louise Nevelson, Mulyana, Sui Park, Frances Gallardo, Richard Hambleton, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Charles White, Agnes Martin, Agnes Pelton, Arthur Dove, Diego Rivera, Diana al-Hadid, Stephen Hayes, Florence Pierce, Rex Ray, Natalya Goncharova, Sonya Clark, and Teresa Baker.
Michael Carroll is an Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, which represents the highest level of achievement and expertise in appraisals and deaccession planning. Michael’s specialty is Postwar, Contemporary and Emerging Art, and he can help collectors with artwork appraisals, philanthropic strategy, and artwork deaccession. Please visit his appraisal page for more information and contact mc@turnercarrollgallery.com for your appraisal needs.
Tonya Turner Carroll
Tonya Turner Carroll graduated with a degree in contemporary art history as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina. Tonya also studied ancient Roman and Italian art history at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, as well as Hebrew University in Jerusalem where she worked on exhibitions of ancient middle eastern at The Israel Museum as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar.
Tonya has experience working with established art institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where her subject material was 19th Century European Art, as well as Sotheby’s London, the Rodin Museum in Philadelphia. She has served on the boards of the Ackland Museum of Art, Judy Chicago’s Through the Flower, the Albuquerque Museum, and 516 Arts, while serving various support roles at the New Mexico Museum of Art.
Tonya Turner Carroll and husband Michael Carroll founded Turner Carroll Gallery in 1991 with the mission of exhibiting artists whose groundbreaking works deserve to be viewed by the incredible collectors of Canyon Road, regardless of their existing or emerging prestige and level of cultural marginalization. The pair also operated [CONTAINER], a museum space where they hosted, curated, and originated internationally touring museum exhibitions.
In the 35 years since Turner Carroll Gallery was founded, Tonya and Michael have accomplished a number of art historical milestones. Turner Carroll Gallery placed Judy Chicago’s print archive with one of the most prestigious print collections in the US, and arranged the Getty Research Institute’s acquisition of Russian activist artist Nadya Tolokonnikova’s prison archive. Turner Carroll also set the North American sales record for work by the 19th century French sculptress Camille Claudel–who was Rodin’s lesser known partner–after arranging the exhibition of Claudel’s most important autobiographical work at the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Turner Carroll also oversees the groundbreaking Landfall Press archive and the Christo and Jeanne-Claude family collection of prints and multiples.
Tonya Turner Carroll worked closely with world-renowned Chinese artist Hung Liu, curating a selection of 56 of Liu’s artworks to be added to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s collection. After Liu’s death, Tonya planned Liu’s legacy strategy, and facilitated the collector purchases of major Hung Liu works which were acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Williams College Art Museum, Nasher Museum of Art, and Taubman Museum of Art. She looks forward to publishing more award-winning art historical monographs and securing the estates and legacies of world renowned artists.
Tonya’s current projects include researching prehistoric depictions of women from the Mediterranean basin and how this early art reveals women’s cultural and intellectual contributions from before recorded history.
Art Advisory and Curatorial Services for Private and Public Collectors
Turner Carroll works closely with all levels of public and private collectors, in both the U.S. and internationally. Turner Carroll takes an art historical approach to helping collectors visualize their aesthetic and intellectual desires for their collection, presenting artworks to them which not only meet their objectives, but which expose them to new ideas and opportunities, as well. Turner Carroll prides itself in establishing long term relationships with collectors purchasing works through the gallery, helping them express their artistic interests coherently, through a carefully curated collection. Turner Carroll offers art advisory services from concept development and sourcing sought after artworks, to art education, research, studio visits, acquisition, and de-accessioning.
Over the decades, Turner Carroll has worked as independent curator with such museums as the Sangre de Cristo Art Center (Pueblo, Colorado), and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Kalamazoo, Michigan). Corporate clients Turner Carroll has advised include the Four Seasons Resort (Punta Mita, Mexico); Sidley Law Firm (Dallas, Texas); La Posada de Santa Fe, a Rock Resort (Santa Fe, New Mexico); and The St. Regis (Punta Mita, Mexico).
Gallery Affiliations