Carl is the Curator of the James Gallery and the Deputy Director of the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also co-founder of the School of Missing Studies, an experimental education platform for emerging and local architects and artists to research the phenomena of transition in cities including Belgrade, Munich, and New York. Carl completed a PhD in Art History and Criticism on experimental art in 1960s and '70s Yugoslavia at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
She has served as the Curator of Contemporary Exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2005-2007) and has worked at the Dia Art Foundation (1999-2003). She was also the manager of the international artists exchange program ArtsLink (1996-1997) and a program specialist at the National Endowment for the Arts (1991-1995). She has taught art history, theory, and criticism and curatorial methods at Tyler School of Art, Parsons, Moore College of Art, and New York University. At Slought, she co-organized Evasions of Power (2007-2011), a serious of discussions, culminating in a publication, exploring the relations between literature, architecture and geo-politics.