b. 1982, Dunfermline, Scotland
Lives and works in Dunfermline, Scotland
Education
2009 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004 BA Fine Art: Painting, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Mothering, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
The Nursery, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
2025 Mothering, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK
The Holiday Park, GRIMM, New York, US
2024 Nurture, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2022 Laura Knight & Caroline Walker: A Female Gaze, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, UK (two-person)
Women Observed, K11, Shanghai, CN
Lisa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK
Birth Reflections, The Fitzrovia Chapel, London, UK
2021 Windows, KM21, The Hague, NL
Women's Work, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
Nearby, GRIMM, New York, US
2020 Janet, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2019 A Woman Sewing, GRIMM, Amsterdam, NL
2018 service, GRIMM, New York, US
Home, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Actions Part 2: Home, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
Sunset, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, US
2017 Painted Ladies, Space K, Gwacheon, KR
Night Scenes, ProjectB, Milan, IT
2016 The Racquet Club, GRIMM, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Bathhouse, Space K, Seoul, KR
2014 Set Piece, ProjectB, Milan, IT
Bathhouse, Budapest Arts Factory, Budapest, HU
Initiations: Lithographs, Enitharmon Editions, London, UK
2013 In Every Dream Home, Pitzhanger Manor House and 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 Prizewinner, Marlborough Fine Art, London, UK
2008 A Sense of Interior, Galleria Glance, Turin, IT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 M(otherhood)s, Denison Museum, Ohio, USA
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Touring, UK (Millennium Gallery, Sheffield; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee)
A Room Hung with Thoughts: British Painting Now, curated by Tom Morton, The Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA
MAMA: From Mary to Merkel, Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE
Good M0m/Bad M0m: Unravelling the Motherhood Myth, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Labour of Love: Economies of Care in Contemporary Art, The Glucksman, Cork, IE
The Art of Nursing: Creativity, Resistance and Renewal, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK
Blusher: Makeup and Materiality, Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University, UK
2024 My World, curated by Hans den Hartog Jager, Singer Laren Museum, NL
Licked by the Waves | New Bathers in Art, Museum MORE, Gorsse, NL
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Touring, UK (Arnolfini, Bristol; Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham)
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2023 The Painted Room, curated by Caroline Walker, GRIMM, Amsterdam, NL
Real Families: Stories of Change, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Finding Family, Foundling Museum, London, UK
Traces of Displacement in The Whitworth's Collection, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Anholt, Makinson, Mortimer, Smith, Walker: New Positions in British Painting, Telegraph, Olomouc, CZ
2022 Scottish Women Artists Transforming Tradition, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, England
Girl Meets Girl, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, NO
Simple Truths, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Cornwall, UK
British Art Show 9, Hayward Gallery Touring, UK (Wolverhampton School of Art, Wolverhampton; Home, Manchester and The Box, Plymouth, UK)
2021 Breathing the Light, Art Exchange, Colchester, UK
2020 Everyday Heroes, Southbank Centre, London, UK
2019 The Rising Tide: Women at Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK
María Berrío, Caroline Walker, Flora Yukhnovich, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2018 The World's Your Oyster, Artuner, Palazzo Capris, Turin, IT
Dialogues / New Painting from London, GASK, Kutna Hora, CZ
2017 Disruptive Imagination: Making Windows Where There Were Once Walls, Gallery of Fine Arts, Ostrava, CZ
2015 The London Open 2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2014 Reality: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
2013 Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, Rudolfinum, Prague, CZ
2012 Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen, HU
Creative London, Space K, Gwacheon, Gwangju and Seoul, KR
2011 Some Domestic Incidents: An Exhibition of New Painting from Britain, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
Expanded Painting: Some Domestic Incidents, curated by Matt Price and Charlie Levine, Prague Biennale 5, Prague, CZ
2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters, Jerwood Space, London, UK
2006 John Moores 24, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Selected Collections
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Aberdeen Art Gallery, UK |
Kistefos Museum, NO |
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Aïshti Foundation, LB |
Kolon Collection, KR |
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AkzoNobel Art Foundation, NL |
Kunstmuseum den Haag, NL |
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, AU |
Longlati Foundation, CN |
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Arts Council of England, UK |
LYRA Art Foundation, US |
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British Government Art Collection, UK |
Mead Art Gallery, UK |
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British Museum, UK |
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, US |
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The Cambridge University Library Collection, UK |
Museum Voorlinden, NL |
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Dallas Museum of Art, US |
National Galleries of Scotland, UK |
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de la Cruz Collection, US |
National Museum Wales, UK |
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De Ying Foundation, KR |
National Museum of Women in the Arts, US |
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Ekard Collection, NL |
Pérez Art Museum, US |
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Fleming Collection, UK |
Pond Society, CN |
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Franks-Suss Collection, UK |
The Rachofsky House, US |
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Gemeentemuseum den Haag, NL |
Rosenblum Collection, FR |
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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, UK |
Shetland Islands Council, UK |
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He Art Museum, CN |
Sifang Art Museum, CN |
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The Hepworth Wakefield, UK |
Tate, UK |
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High Museum of Art, US |
Tia Collection, US |
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Huamao Foundation, CN |
University of Warwick, UK |
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The Hunterian, UK |
The Wieland Collection, US |
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ING Collection, NL |
Woong Yeul Lee Collection, KR |
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Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, US |
Xiao Contemporary Art Museum, CN |
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Kirkcaldy Galleries and the Fife Council Collection, UK |
Yale University Art Gallery, US |
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