Carol Eckman (b. 1950) is an American artist who earned her M.F.A. in 1974 from the University of California, Davis. Shortly after graduation, Eckman's work was selected for the 1975 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, an important exhibition surveying contemporary American art. In 1976, she participated in Eighteen Bay Area Artists at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, alongside artists including David Ireland, Jock Reynolds and Kathy Goodell.