Carole A. Feuerman (1945) is an American superrealist sculptor. Her prolific career spans five decades. She currently lives and works in New York.

In the late 1960s, Feuerman created 3D illustrations for magazine covers and world tour books for rock stars such as the Rolling Stones and Alice Cooper. In 1975, she did her first life casting for the cover of the National Lampoon. In 1976, she began creating sensual, fragmented works, adding a new dimension of complexity to her art. Hypothesized by postmodernist thought, she left the fragment behind in the early 2000s and began sculpting full-figure, realistic sculptures. She is best known for her swimmers, creating both indoor and outdoor works.

In 2011, she founded the Feuerman Sculpture Foundation to support underrepresented artists through exhibitions, internships, residencies, educational grants, and archival initiatives. Most recently, she donated two monumental sculptures to help establish a sculpture park at the Medici Museum in Warren, Ohio.

She is a narrative artist, instilling her sculptures with conceptual elements. By the use of the fragment, her work invites the viewer to complete the story. Her passion for water stems from her childhood memories spent at the beach. Feuerman describes the sensation of water droplets on her skin after swimming and the intricate patterns they formed as captivating. The beach became her sanctuary—a place of escape and tranquility. It was during a beach outing with her children that she encountered a swimmer with water droplets streaming down her face, radiating a sense of pride and accomplishment. This encounter catalyzed her first swimmer sculpture titled Catalina (1978).

Selected exhibitions include Park Avenue, Central Park, and the Seaport in New York, the 2024 Paris Olympics, Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, and Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Her sculptures are also in the permanent collections of thirty-four museums, as well as owned by the cities of Sunnyvale, CA, and Peekskill, NY. Feuerman’s works are in the selected collections of Steven A. Cohen, Former President Clinton, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Malcolm Forbes. She has taught, lectured, and given workshops at institutions like the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In recognition of her contributions to the arts, Feuerman has received the Lifetime Achievement 'Goddess Artemis' Award from the European American Women's Council (EAWC), First Prize at the Huan Tai Hu Museum in Changzhou, China, Best in Show in Beijing, China, the Amelia Peabody Award, First Prize at the Beijing Biennale, and the Medici Award in Florence, Italy. 

 Artist Statement:

“Through my sculptures, I convey my feelings about life and art. It is far easier for me to express my emotions through sculpture than through words. I portray the inner life of each image in order to capture the passion and sensuality of my subject. In this way, my work speaks to the viewer, evoking both an emotional and an intellectual response”.