Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson

Lincoln Nemetz-Carlson joined Utile in 2025 after serving as Fulbright U.S. Scholar to Azerbaijan, where he led a year-long research project on the origins of Soviet Modernist architecture. He earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a thesis on rethinking and redesigning public monuments and memorial spaces for the 21st century. He also holds a PhD and MA from The Ohio State University, specializing in ancient Greek and Roman art, architecture, and archaeology.

In addition to his professional and academic work, Lincoln is a practicing artist, working in acrylic, vector art, and projection, as well as film and digital photography. In 2025, His projection art installation, Dog Reads The Pelican Brief by John Grisham in Chemotherapy, premiered at Emerson Contemporary in 2025 with support from a City of Boston Un-monument Artist Grant. He has curated several public exhibitions on Brutalist architecture and is currently writing and illustrating a children’s book on the subject. He serves as Executive Committee member and designer for the award-winning Brutalist advocacy group, UMassBRUT.

Lincoln has lived in five countries and traveled to more than 50. He currently resides in the North End, near his beloved Boston Celtics.