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Carol Prusa (born in Chicago, 1956) is a contemporary American visual artist known for her rigorous large scale silverpoint technique and use of unexpected materials from sculpted fiberglass to LED lights and her focus on astrophysics. In the 2015 catalogue essay for the National Gallery of Art exhibition Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, Bruce Weber called Carol Prusa “one of the most innovative artists working in metalpoint today.” In 2024, she was nominated for the 2024 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art from the Orlando Museum of Art.
After graduation, Prusa took an assistant art professor position at Iowa State University in 1986, and spent eighteen years working at this institution. She moved to South Florida in 1999 for a Academic tenure position at Florida Atlantic University.
In 2020, she presented the solo exhibition Carol Prusa: Dark Light at Boca Raton Museum of Art, about her ongoing interest in the space, the universe and cosmic events such as eclipses and other stellar phenomena manifested through two dimensional and sculptural objects. In 2018, the solo show Dark Energy, was on view at Endicott College, Massachusetts, about the artist's interest in the 2017 eclipse.
In 2009, the one-person show Silver Linings: Delicate Drawings by Carol Prusa, took place at Polk Art Museum at Florida Southern College, an affiliate of the Smithsonian. In 2007, the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville presented Coherent Structures: Recent Silverpoint Paintings by Carol Prusa. The York College of Pennsylvania presented the two person exhibition Andi Steele and Carol Prusa at York College Gallery in 2007.
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