Caroline Tompkins
Lives and works in Queens, NY
513-240-9323 | tompkins.caroline@gmail.com
Education
2014
BFA Honors Photography, School of Visual Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Bedfellow, These Days, Los Angeles, USA
2022
Bedfellow, 10 14 Gallery, London, England
Bedfellow, Miejsce Przy Miejscu 14, Wrocław, Poland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
State of Exception, Studio Gallery BWA, Wrocław, Poland
2019
Playing for Keeps, Micamera, Milan
2018
Eye Witness, RVCA, Australia
2017
Dinster, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2016
Mental Health Club, Mandarin Plaza, Los Angeles, NYC
Mossless 4, Public/Private/Portrait, Deli Gallery, NYC
Common Sense(s), Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
PhotoLA, The Reef/LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
2015
What’s a Man’s Paris?, General Public Collective, Indianapolis, IN
7 on Main Street, Combustion Espontanea, Madrid, Spain
Teaching and Work Experience
2021
Senior Photo Editor, Vice (2020-2021)
2019
School of Visual Arts, Professor (2019-2023)
2014
Bloomberg Businessweek, Photo Editor (2014 – 2019)
Publications
2022
Bedfellow, Palm* Studios
2020
Under a Blanket of Stars, Pomegranate Press
2019
Far From All That Allows, featuring Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O’Malley, Tim Schutsky, and Caroline Tompkins, Convoke
2017
Big Sky, Self Published
2016
Public/Private/Portrait, Mossless
2015
Super Special Volume 2, Vuu Studio
Selected Press
2022
Fear and Desire, Aperture
Bedfellow, British Journal of Photography
Bedfellow, True Journal
2020
British Journal of Photography "Caroline Tompkins on the subject of the body"
Elephant Magazine, "Caroline Tompkins Captures the Wild Heat of Rural America"
C41 Magazine, "Caroline Tompkins on C41 Magazine issue 9 Eros: Fantasy Bond"
2019
i-D, "Oltre il female gaze: intervista a Molly Matalon e Caroline Tompkins"
Dazed, "These photographs offer a romanticised, female-lensed viewpoint of America"
Vogue, Interview with Molly Matalon for exhibition "Playing for Keeps" at Micamera in Milan
2017
BRETT. Magazine, Issue 2, Seoul, Korea
Metal Magazine, "Caroline Tompkins - The American and the Outsider"
2016
It's Nice That, "Caroline Tompkins deftly captures goggle marks, swim caps and foam floats"
Ignant, "A Life In Glimpses By Caroline Tompkins"
2015
Dazed, "Generation Y and the ‘American Dream’"
Juxtapoz, "Caroline Tompkins' 'Hey Baby'"
2014
Huffington Post, Why One Woman Is Photographing Her Catcallers
Awards
2020
The 30: New and Emerging Photographers
2010
Silas Rhodes Scholarship
Television & Radio
2019
C41 Podcast #02 Molly Matalon, Caroline Tompkins, Jamie Allen Shaw
2016
The LPV Show - Interview
2014
W Radio - Interview, Colombia
BBC TV, 100 Women: Do we need to talk about sexism?
PIX11 TV, ‘Cat Call City’: Why do men do it?
Al Jazeera America TV, ‘Hey, baby!’: Anti-catcalling crusade gains ground in New York City
Panelist History
2020
The 30: New and Emerging Photographers. "How to Pitch Stories for the Editorial Market"
2019
Alumni Conversation with Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O’Malley, Tim Schutsky, and Caroline Tompkins, SVA Theatre
Conversation with Molly Matalon, Red Hook Labs, NYC
2016
The Blow Up presented by Feature Shoot, Going Viral, Root Studios, NYC
2015
NYC No Parents, Istituto Europeo di Design, Madrid, Spain
2013
A Return to the Desert: In search of a language for image-based art, SVA Theater, NYC