Andrea Carlson (Ojibwe/Anishinaabe) is an artist currently living in Chicago, Illinois. Through painting and drawing, Carlson cites entangled cultural narratives, while questioning institutional authority over objects they possess and display. Current research activities include Indigenous Futurism and assimilation metaphors in film. Institutions such as the British Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the National Gallery of Canada have acquired her work. Carlson was a 2008 McKnight Fellow and a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors fellow.