In the nineteen-seventies and - eighties, Carol Vollet Kingston designed costumes and sets for the ballets of choreographers like Alvin Ailey, Choo San Goh, Talley Beatty and Gerald Arpino, and her work has been presented at the Paris Opera and Reggio Emilio, the Singapore Dance Theater and the Sydney Opera, the Royal Swedish, the Royal Danish, at Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in US, and theaters around the world. Then, a decade or so ago, she began to devote herself to large works and installations that include drawings and paintings, on canvas, naugahyde, and plastic RP screen, sometimes with soundtracks, photographs, electro-printing and construction. She draws every day (even on the treadmill), takes endless photographs, and experiments continually with scale and medium. Technique, she says, must seduce the viewer into looking.

Much of Carol’s work has been ironical and political; her drawing installations, “Words Spoken and Unspoken” and “Everyman” were shown in Capetown and Johannesburg, respectively, in 1999 and 2000; Some of her “Wild, Wild West” pieces were shown in London, in 2003, exposing a world of good and evil in an ambivalent culture. The four installations collectively known as the “Last Supper” series - - featuring contemporary political leaders, with ironic reference to Leonardo - - have been variously shown in the United States through the past decade. The studies from which that work developed (both drawings and paintings) are now being extended as continuing series of commissioned portraits called “Boots of Special Interest.”

Currently, Carol teaches graduate and undergraduate painting and drawing at the C.W. Post College of Long Island University. Her most recent body of work, using a vivid palette, includes the series "Floating" and "Mapping" and "The Blue Shift," which have been shown in New York and Florida, and in Paris and Australia. This fall recent drawings will be shown in Tribeca, N.Y., and recent paintings will be seen on 57th Street N.Y. and in Paris in November, and in Locust Valley in December. Then, in the Spring of 2010, a retrospective is planned for Locust Valley, where the artist's own studio is located.