Patty Carroll is currently an Adjunct Full Professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College in Chicago, IL. Carroll has previously taught at IIT and the Royal College of Art in London. She has participated in numerous group and one-person exhibitions, and has work in several museums internationally. She is the photographic author of 4 books; Spirited Visions a book and exhibit of portraits of Chicago artists in 1992, Culture is Everywhere , published by Prestel in 2002 with Victor Margolin, Living the Life: The World of Elvis Tribute Artists, 2005 and Man Bites Dog: The Culture of Hot Dogs in America published by Alta Mira Press with Bruce Kraig. Selected one-person exhibits include "Are You Lonesome Tonight" at Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England in 1996, "Elvis?" at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in 1999, and "Dark and Deadly: Photographs and Digital Movie Posters," at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. Since 2010, her "Anonymous Women: Draped" series has been shown at White Box Museum in Beijing, Shanghai University Gallery, The Singapore International Photography Festival, galleries in Italy, as well as other American galleries and museums, including the Cultural Center in Chicago in 2012.