CAROLINE WALKER

Scottish artist Caroline Walker (b.1982) studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and is now based in London. She has had solo exhibitions in Seoul, Milan, London, New York and Bucharest. Group exhibitions include The London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015), ‘Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting’ at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2015), Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting at MODEM ,Debrecen and Rudolfinum, Prague (2012/2013) and Some Domestic Incidents at Prague Biennale 5 and MAC, Birmingham (2011), Her work is held in collections including the Royal College of Art, Franks-Suss, Saatchi, Woong Yeul Lee, and Jimenez-Colon. 

Forthcoming exhibitions include solo shows at Space K, Gwacheon, South Korea and ProjectB, Milan in early 2017.

EDUCATION

2007-09  

MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 

2000-04  BA (hons) Fine Art: Painting, Glasgow School of Art                   

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS   

2015      

Bathhouse, Space K, Seoul 

2014      

Set Piece, ProjectB Gallery, Milan 

2013      

In Every Dream Home, Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery, London 

Glass to the Wall, ProjectB Gallery, Milan 

2011     

Vantage Point, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York 

2010      

Anonymous Was A Woman, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest 

2010      

The Valerie Beston Artist Trust Prizewinner, Marlborough Fine Art, London   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS   

2016      

A Question of Perspective, Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam 

2015      

The Nude in the XX XXI Century, Sotheby’s S|2, London 

The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London 

Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 

East London Painting Prize Shortlist, The Rum Factory, London 

2014      

Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts,Norwich 

This Side of Paradise, Sotheby’s S|2, London 

2013      

Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, Rudolfinum, Prague 

2012      

Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, MODEM, Debrecen, Hungary 

Creative London, Space K Gwacheon, Seoul, and Gwangju, South Korea 

Body of Evidence, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles 

2011      

Some Domestic Incidents: New Painting from Britain, MAC, Birmingham 

Expanded Painting: Some Domestic Incidents, Prague Biennale 5, Prague 

2008      

Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London 

2006      John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool         

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    

COLLECTIONS   

Woong Yeul Lee Collection, Korea Saatchi Collection, London OUTSET/RCA acquisitions, Collection of Royal College of Art, London The Franks-Suss Collection, London Jimenez-Colon Collection, Puerto Rico Shetland Islands Council   

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS   

2014     

‘A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today’, Marc Valli & Margherita Dessanay, Laurence King, London 

2013      

'Caroline Walker: In Every Dream Home', Matt Price, Text Jane Neal, Marco Livingstone, Matt Price, Anomie, Wakefield