Caroline Tompkins
Lives and works in Queens, NY
513-240-9323 | tompkins.caroline@gmail.com
Teaching and Work Experience
2021
Senior Photo Editor, Vice (2020-2021)
2019
School of Visual Arts, Professor (Current)
2014
Bloomberg Businessweek, Photo Editor (2014 – 2019)
Education
2014
BFA Honors Photography, School of Visual Arts
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Becoming, A conversation with current SVA students, SVA Gramercy Gallery
Playing for Keeps, Micamera, Milan
2018
Eye Witness, RVCA, Australia
2017
Currents, Secret Project Robot, NYC
Benefit for Planned Parenthood, Chinatown Soup Gallery, NYC
Dinster, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2016
Instagram HQ, Menlo Park, CA
B Sides, Gallery Petite, NYC
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
First Day of Spring, 892 Lorimer, NYC
PhotoLA, The Reef/LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
2015
I Speak, You Speak, 139 Eldridge, NYC
What’s a Man’s Paris?, General Public Collective, Indianapolis, IN
7 on Main Street, Combustion Espontanea, Madrid, Spain
2014
Mentors, SVA Chelsea Gallery, Mentor: Lucy Gallun, MoMA, NYC
2012
We are Friends, SVA Photography Gallery, NYC
Publications
2020
Under a Blanket of Stars, celebrating 5 Years of Pomegranate Press
2019
Far From All That Allows, featuring Zak Krevitt, Molly Matalon, Corey Olsen, Pat O’Malley, Tim Schutsky, and Caroline Tompkins, published by Convoke
2017
Big Sky, Self Published
2016
Mossless 4, Public/Private/Portrait
2015
Vuu Studio, Super Special Volume 2
Selected Press
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"
aCurator - Interview
2015
Dazed, "Generation Y and the ‘American Dream’"
Capricious - Interview
Juxtapoz, "Caroline Tompkins' 'Hey Baby'"
Lenscratch - Interview
2014
Huffington Post, Why One Woman Is Photographing Her Catcallers
Buzzfeed - Interview
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
2018
(Moderator) The Reservoir, Performance of the Female Photographer, NYC
2016
The Response Project, Chase Public, Cincinnati, OH
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