Caroline Walker

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