WORK
Caroline Walker (b. 1982, Dunfermline, Scotland)
EDUCATION
2007-2009 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
2000-2004 BA(hons) Painting, Glasgow School of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Lisa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK)
Laura Knight & Caroline Walker: A Female Gaze, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham (UK)
Birth Reflections, The Fitzrovia Chapel and UCLH, London (UK)
2021
Windows, KM21, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL)
Women's Work, Midlands Arts Centre (MAC), Birmingham (UK)
Nearby, GRIMM, New York (US)
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 (US)
Actions Part 2: Home, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (UK)
Sunset, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (US)
2017
Night Scenes, ProjectB, Milan (IT)
Painted Ladies, Space K, Gwacheon, South Korea (KR)
2016
The Racquet Club, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL)
2015
Bathhouse, Space K, Seoul (KR)
2014
Set Piece, ProjectB, Milan (IT)
Bathhouse, Budapest Art Factory (Residency), Budapest (HR)
Works on Paper, Enitharmon Editions, London (UK)
2013
In Every Dream Home, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London (UK)
Glass to the Wall, ProjectB, 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 Prize Winner, Marlborough Fine Art, London (UK)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Plymouth (UK)
Simple Truths, The Exchange, Penzance (UK)
Girl Meets Girl, Vestfossen Kunstlabaritorium, Vestfossen (NO)
2021
Wish You Were Here, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton, Aberdeen, Plymouth, Manchester (UK)
2020
Everyday Heroes, Southbank Centre, London (UK)
2019
Maria Berrio, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich, Victoria Miro, London (UK)
The Conversation, Anat Ebgi, San Francisco (US)
2018
The World's Your Oyster, Artuner, Palazzo Capris, Turin (IT)
In The Company Of, TJ Boulting, London (UK)
Dialogues / New Painting from London, GASK, Kutna Hora (CZ)
Actions: The image of the world can be different, Kettles Yard, Cambridge (UK)
2017
Women Artists: A Conversation, The Fine Art Society, London (UK)
Disruptive Imagination: Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava (CZ)
Currents, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, (TW)
2016
ProjectB 10, ProjectB, Milan (IT)
Valerie Beston Artist Trust Prize: First Decade, Marlborough Fine Art, London (UK)
A Question of Perspective, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2015
The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
Reality: Modern and Contemporary Brtish Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
East London Painting Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Rum Factory, London (UK)
2014
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (UK)
This Side of Paradise, S2, London (UK)
2013
Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (CZ)
2012
Roots to Shoots: Ten Years of the Dewar Arts Awards, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh (UK)
Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen (HR)
Creative London, Space K, Gwacheon, Gwangju and Seoul (KR)
Body of Evidence, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
2011
Some Domestic Incidents: An Exhibition of New Painting from Britain, MAC, Birmingham (UK)
Expanded Painting: Some Domestic Incidents, curated by Matt Price and Charlie Levine, Prague Biennale 5 (CZ)
2010
Love is an Ocular Sickness (Joint exhibition with Lydia Corry), Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow (UK)
SV10, Studio Voltaire, 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)
AWARDS
2010 Shortlisted for Threadneedle Prize
2009 Valerie Beston Young Artist Award, Royal College of Art
2009 Neville Burston Award, Royal College fo Art
2009 Tom Bendhem Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art
2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters
2007 Dewar Arts Award
2007 NADFAS Bursary, Royal College of Art
COLLECTIONS
University of Warwick (UK)
Cambridge University Library (UK)
The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge (UK)
Arts Council Collection (UK)
The Fleming Collection (UK)
He Art Museum (CN)
Kunstmuseum den Haag (NL)
Museum Voorlinden (NL)
National Museum Wales (UK)
UK Government Art Collection (UK)
Shetland Islands Council, Lerwick (UK)
OUTSET/RCA acquisitions, Royal College of Art, London (UK)
The Franks-Suss Collection, London (UK)
Kistefos Museum (NO)
Akzo Nobel Foundation, Amsterdam (NL)
ING Collection, Amsterdam (NL)
The Ekard Collection, Wassenaar (NL)
Rosenblum Collection, Paris (FR)
De Ying Foundation (KR)
Kolon Group Collection (KR)
Jimenez-Colon Collection, Ponce (PR)
PUBLICATIONS
'Windows', Benno Tempel and Jorien de Vries, Published by GRIMM on the occasion of the exhibition Windows at KM21, The Hague, 2021
'The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2', Matt Price, Anomie Publishing, London, 2021
'Women's Work', Ed, Jenine McGaughran, Text: Deborah Kermode, Griselda Pollock and Tracey Warren, Midlands Arts Centre, 2021
'Janet', Hettie Judah, Co-published Ingleby Gallery and Anomie Publishing, Edinburgh, 2020
'Picture Window', Marco Livingstone, Dr Lauren Elkin, Andrew Nairne, Dr Rina Arya, Anomie Publishing, London and GRIMM Amsterdam/New York, 2018
'The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting', Matt Price, Anomie Publishing, London, 2018
'Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting', Phaidon Press, London, 2016
'Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting', Exhibition Catalogue for Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts, Norwich, 2014
‘A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today', Marc Valli & Margherita Dessanay, Laurence King Publishing, London, 2014
'Caroline Walker: In Every Dream Home', Ed. Matt Price, Text Jane Neal, Marco Livingstone, Matt Price, Anomie Publishing, Wakefield, 2013
'Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting', exhibition catalogue for Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013