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