Caroline Walker
Born: Dunfermline, Scotland, 1982
Lives and works in London, England
Education
2007–2009 Royal College of Art, Kensington, London, England (MA Painting)
2000–2004 Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (BA Painting)
Awards and bursaries
2010
Threadneedle Prize (shortlisted)
2009
Valerie Beston Young Artist Award, Royal College of Art, London, England
Neville Burston Award, Royal College of Art, London, England
Tom Bendhem Drawing Prize, Royal College of Art, London, England
2008
Jerwood Contemporary Painters
2007
Dewar Arts Award
NADFAS Bursary, Royal College of Art, London, England
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions (selected)
2024
Caroline Walker, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022
Laura Knight & Caroline Walker: A Female Gaze, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, England (two-person, catalogue)
Lisa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Birth Reflections, Fitzrovia Chapel, London, England (catalogue)
Birth Reflections, Street Gallery, University College London Hospital Arts, London, England (catalogue)
Women Observed, K11, Shanghai, China
2021
KM21, The Hague, The Netherlands (catalogue)
Women's Work, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England (catalogue)
Nearby, GRIMM, New York, USA
2020
Janet, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (catalogue)
2019
A Woman Sewing, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018
Home, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester, England
Service, GRIMM, New York, USA
Actions Part 2: Home, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England
Sunset, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Night Scenes, ProjectB, Milan, Italy
Painted Ladies, Space K, Gwacheon, South Korea
2016
The Racquet Club, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Bathhouse, Space K, Seoul, South Korea
2014
Set Piece, ProjectB, Milan, Italy
Bathhouse, Budapest Art Factory (Residency), Budapest, Hungary
Works on Paper, Enitharmon Editions, London, England
2013
In Every Dream Home, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London, England
Glass to the Wall, ProjectB, Milan, Italy
2011
Vantage Point, Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, USA
2010
Anonymous Was a Woman, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
The Valerie Beston Artist Trust Prize Winner, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2025
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland (touring, catalogue)
2024
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery, London, England; Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, England; Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, England (touring, catalogue)
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
Contemporary collecting: David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, Gallery 90, British Museum, London, England
Still Life, Hepworth Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
2023
The Painted Room: Curated by Caroline Walker, GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Room by Room: Concepts, Themes and Artists in the Rachofsky Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas, USA
Painting with Light, Vortic, London, England
Hospital Rooms: Holding Space, Hauser & Wirth, London, England
Real Families: Stories of Change, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
PUBLIC PRIVATE, Pond Society, Shanghai, China
Finding Family, Foundling Museum, London, England
Traces of Displacement in The Whitworth’s Collection, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
2022
From Near and Far: Collage and Figuration in the Contemporary Age, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Girl Meets Girl, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
2021
Right About Now, No.9 Cork Street, Mayfair, London, England
Condition Humaine, GRIMM, New York, USA
The Rules of Art?, National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales
Breathing the Light, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester, England
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton, Hayward Gallery, London; Aberdeen, Plymouth, Manchester, England (touring, catalogue)
2020
Everyday Heroes, Southbank Centre, London, England
2019
Maria Berrio, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich, Victoria Miro, London, England
The Conversation, Anat Ebgi, San Francisco, USA
2018
The World's Your Oyster, Artuner, Palazzo Capris, Turin, Italy
In The Company Of, TJ Boulting, London, England
Dialogues / New Painting from London, GASK, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic
Actions: The image of the world can be different, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, England
2017
Women Artists: A Conversation, The Fine Art Society, London, England
Disruptive Imagination: Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Currents, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016
ProjectB 10, ProjectB, Milan, Italy
Valerie Beston Artist Trust Prize: First Decade, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
A Question of Perspective, GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
East London Painting Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Rum Factory, London, England
2014
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
This Side of Paradise, S2, London, England
2013
Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2012
Roots to Shoots: Ten Years of the Dewar Arts Awards, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland
Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, Hungary
Creative London, Space K, Gwacheon, Gwangju and Seoul, South Korea
Body of Evidence, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2011
Some Domestic Incidents: An Exhibition of New Painting from Britain, MAC, Birmingham, England
Expanded Painting: Some Domestic Incidents, curated by Matt Price and Charlie Levine, Prague Biennale 5, Czech Republic
2010
Love is an Ocular Sickness, Intermedia, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland
SV10, Studio Voltaire, London, England
2008
Interior: Looking Through the Art, Parco Culturale Le Serre, Turin, Italy
Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London, England
Germinazioni, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
2006
John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
Publications (selected)
2023
Motherhood, Tate, London, England
2022
A Female Gaze: Caroline Walker, Paintings & Drawings with the work of Laura Knight, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, England
Prime - Art’s Next Generation, Phaidon, London, England
Caroline Walker: Birth Reflections, Fitzrovia Chapel and University College London Hospital Arts, London, England
2021
British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton, Hayward Gallery, London
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2’, Matt Price, Anomie Publishing
Caroline Walker, KM21, The Hague, The Netherlands
Women's Work, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England
2020
Janet, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2018
Picture Window, Marco Livingstone, Dr Lauren Elkin, Andrew Nairne, Dr Rina Arya, Anomie Publishing, London, England; GRIMM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and GRIMM, New York, USA
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting, Matt Price, Anomie Publishing, London, England
2016
Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press, London, England
2014
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Exhibition Catalogue for Sainsbury Centre of Visual Arts, Norwich, England
A Brush with the Real: Figurative Painting Today, Marc Valli & Margherita Dessanay, Laurence King Publishing, London, England
2013
Caroline Walker: In Every Dream Home, Ed. Matt Price, Text Jane Neal, Marco Livingstone, Matt Price, Anomie Publishing, Wakefield, England
Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, exhibition catalogue for Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Public Collections
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Arts Council of England, London, UK
Akzo Nobel Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
British Museum, London, UK
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, Texas, USA
De Ying Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea
Ekard Collection, Wassenaar, The Netherland
Fleming Collection, London, UK
Franks-Suss Collection, London, England
Government Art Collection, London, England
Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
HE Art Museum, Foshan, China
The Hepworth Wakefield, UK
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
ICA Miami, Florida, USA
ING Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jimenez-Colon Collection, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway
Kolon Group Collection, Seoul, South Korea
Kunstmuseum den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Mead Art Gallery, Warwickshire, UK
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands
National Museum Wales, Cardiff, Wales
OUTSET/RCA acquisitions, Royal College of Art, London, England
Pond Society, Shanghai, China
Rosenblum Collection, Paris, France
Shetland Islands Council, Lerwick, Scotland
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Xia Contemporary, Art Museum, Suzhou, China
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA