
Caroline Walker, Sunset, Installation view, 2018
Exhibitions

Wish You Were Here
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Caroline Walker
- 1982
- Born in Dunfermline, Scotland.
- Lives and works in London.
Education
- 2009
- MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
- 2004
- BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Glasgow School of Art
Awards
- 2010
- Shortlisted for Threadneedle Painting Prize
- 2009
- Valerie Beston Young Artist Award, Royal College of Art
- Neville Burston Award, Royal College of Art
- Tom Bendhem Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art
- 2008
- Jerwood Contemporary Painters
- 2007
- Dewar Arts Award
- NADFAS Bursary for study at Royal College of Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
- 2021
- KM21, The Hague, NL (Forthcoming)
- Women's Work, Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham, UK
- Nearby, GRIMM, New York, NY
- 2020
- Janet, Ingleby Gallery, UK
- 2019
- A Woman Sewing, GRIMM, Amsterdam, NL
- 2018
- Home, Art Exchange, University of Essex , Colchester (UK)
- Service, GRIMM, New York (USA)
- Actions Part 2: Home, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (UK)
- Sunset, Anat Egbi, Los Angeles (USA)
- 2017
- Night Scenes, ProjectB, Milan (IT)
- Painted Ladies, Space K, Gwacheon (KR)
- 2016
- The Raquet Club, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
- 2015
- Bathhouse, Space K, Seoul (KR)
- 2014
- Set Piece, ProjectB Gallery, Milan (IT)
- Bathhouse, Budapest Arts Factory (residency), Budapest (HU)
- Initiations: Lithographs, Enitharmon Editions, London (UK)
- 2013
- In Every Dream Home, Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery, London (UK)
- Glass to the Wall, ProjectB Gallery, Milan (IT)
- 2011
- Vantage Point, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York (US)
- 2010
- Anonymous Was A Woman, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (RO)
- The Valerie Beston Artist Trust Prizewinner, Marlborough Fine Art, London (UK)
- 2008
- A Sense of Interior, Galleria Glance, Turin (IT)
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2021
- Wish You Were Here, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2020
- Everyday Heroes, Southbank Centre, London (UK)
- 2019
- Maria Berrio, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich, Victoria Miro, London (UK)
- The Conversation, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
- 2018
- Dialogues / New Painting from London, GASK, Kutna Hora (CZ)
- The World's Your Oyster, Artuner, Palazzo Capris, Turin (IT)
- In The Company Of, TJ Boulting, London (UK)
- Actions: The image of the world can be different, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (UK)
- 2017
- Mingled Spaces, Lychee One, London (UK)
- Lin & Lin Gallery (with Nick Goss and Neil Raitt), Taipei (TW)
- Disruptive Imagination: Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls, Gallery of Fine Arts Ostrava (CZ)
- Women Artists: A Conversation, Fine Art Society, London (UK)
- 2016
- ProjectB 10, ProjectB, Milan (IT)
- VBAT 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London (UK)
- A Question of Perspective, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
- 2015
- The Nude in the XX XXI Century, Sotheby’s S|2, London (UK)
- The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
- 2014
- Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
- This Side of Paradise’, Sotheby’s S|2, London, Sotheby’s S|2, London (UK)
- Painting and Sculpture from Milan Galleries, curated by Francesco Poli, MilanTriennale, Milan (IT)
- 2013
- Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, Rudolfinum, Prague (CZ)
- 2012
- Roots to Shoots: Ten Years of the Dewar Arts Awards, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh (UK)
- Part of a Collection: OUTSET/RCA Acquisitions 2009-2011, Royal College of Art, London (UK)
- Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, MODEM, Debrecen (HU)
- Creative London, Space K Gwacheon, Seoul, and Gwangju, South Korea (KR)
- Body of Evidence, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
- 2011
- Some Domestic Incidents: New Painting from Britain, MAC, Birmingham (UK)
- Expanded Painting: Some Domestic Incidents, Prague Biennale 5, Prague (CZ)
- 2010
- Love is an Ocular Sickness, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow (UK)
- SV10, Studio Voltaire, London (UK)
- 2009
- Through the Wall, Rochelle School, A Foundation, London (UK)
- 2008
- Interior: Looking Through the Art, Parco Culturale Le Serre, Turin (IT)
- Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London (UK)
- Germinazioni, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (IT)
- 2006
- John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
Bibliography
- 2018
- Zach Wampler, "Isolation and Affluence: Caroline Walker at Anat Ebgi, LA," PROVOKR, March 2, 2018.
- Karlynee Ejercito, "Caroline Walker," Artforum, March 2018, pg. 238.
- Emily Nimptsch, "Night Falls on Caroline Walker's Sunset," Riot Material, February 8, 2018.
- "Cinematic Language of LA: Caroline Walker at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles," Blouin Artinfo, February 6, 2018.
- Jennifer Remenchik, "Caroline Walker at Anat Ebgi," Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, January 31, 2018.
- Holly Black, “Cinematic Paintings Set in a Modernist Los Angeles Home,” AnOther Magazine, January 29, 2018.
- "ALAC: Portrait of a Sunny City," Elephant Magazine, January 26, 2018.
- Brienne Walsh, "If You Love The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, You'll Love These Paintings By Caroline Walker," Forbes Magazine, January 26, 2018.
- Katy Donogue, "LA Galleriest Anat Ebgi on Why Artists No Longer Need to 'Make it' in New York," Whitewall Magazine, January 24, 2018. (Link)
- Holly Black, "An Elephant in... LA," Elephant Magazine, January 18, 2018.
- 2017
- Matt Price, “Caroline Walker > California Dreaming?” Fused Magazine, October 11, 2017.
- Emily Spicer, “Who we perceive to be the maker of an image affects how we consume it,” Studio International, October 4, 2017.
- Matthew Sperling, “Water Marks,” Apollo Magazine, February 2017, pg. 52-58.
- 2016
- “Interview: Dr. Rina Arya in conversation with Caroline Walker,” This is Tomorrow, May 23, 2016.
- 2014
- Matthew Sperling, “Enigmas: Caroline Walker’s lithographs and paintings,” Apollo Magazine, August 15, 2014.
- Fru Tholstrup, “This Side of Paradise: Interview with Caroline Walker,” Sotheby’s, March 21, 2014.
- 2013
- Martin Newman, “Bad Intent: Caroline Walker’s Paintings Give an Uneasy Edge to the Lifestyles of the rich and fabulous,” HuffPost Entertainment UK, September 29, 2013.
- Daisy Woodward, “Caroline Walker: In Every Dream Home,” AnOther Magazine, July 19, 2013.
- Martin Newman, “Housewives: Artist Caroline Walker’s paintings of women through the keyhole,” Mirror Online, July 15, 2013.
Collections
- Saatchi Collection, London
- OUTSET/RCA acquisitions, Royal College of Art, London
- The Franks-Suss Collection, London
- Jimenez-Colon Collection, Puerto Rico
- Shetland Islands Council
- Woong Yeul Lee Collection, Korea