Carlton Fletcher received his degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design (B.F.A. 1972), and American University (M.F.A. 1982), and was one of the founding members of the Washington Studio School (1985).
Since 1977 he has had solo shows at Wolfe Street Gallery, Georgetown Art Gallery, Hull Gallery, the Washington Studio School, Jane Haslem Gallery, and Susan Calloway Fine Arts. His group shows include: D’Arista Legacy, American University (2018); Washington Art from the 1940s through the 1980s, American University (2014); National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 84, New York (1996); 169th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York (1994); New American Figure Painting, Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, and Clemson University (1992); Lennart Anderson Selects, First Street Gallery, New York (1990); The Human Figure in New Painting & Sculpture, New York Academy of Art (1990); and Prints: Washington, Phillips Collection, Washington (1988).
His work is in the permanent collections of American University, Georgetown University, Stanford University, and the DC Commission on Arts and Humanities.
