Carol Tarzier is a Bay Area painter and sculptor. Her sculpture career began in 1993, a few years after arriving in the Bay Area, with figurative and abstract work in bronze.

Awards for sculpture include the John Cavanaugh Memorial Award for Figurative Sculpture, numerous awards from the National Sculpture Society including the Roger T. Williams Prize, Alex J. Ettl Grant, Gold Medal and Maurice B. Hexter Prize, and the Bosque Conservatory Art Council’s Silver Medal.

From 1998 though 2002, she focused on commissioned sculptures, with an 8’ bronze memorial to C.L. Dellums, which was unveiled at the C.L. Dellums Amtrak station in Oakland in December of 1999, and a life-size memorial to George Hasslein, Dean of the College of Architecture, at CalPoly State University in San Luis Obispo.n Luis Obispo.