Caroline Walker RSA (Elect)’s paintings explore the performance of gender identity, femininity, and question the norms of depicting women and the female form across a range of socio-economic contexts. Blurring the boundary between objectivity and lived experience, Walker highlights the often-overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit.
Born in Dunfermline (UK), where she also currently lives and works, Walker received a BA in Painting from Glasgow School of Art in 2004 and an MA in Painting from The Royal College of Art in 2009.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Nurture, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (UK); Women Observed, K11, Shanghai (CN); Lisa, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (UK); Caroline Walker: Birth Reflections, The Fitzrovia Chapel, London (UK) in 2022; Windows, KM21, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Women's work, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham (UK); Nearby, GRIMM, New York, NY (US) in 2021.
Selected group exhibitions include: Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Hayward Gallery Touring, Arnolfini, Bristol; Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham (UK); Licked by the Waves | New Bathers in Art, Museum MORE, Gorssel (NL); My World, curated by Hans den Hartog Jager, Singer Laren Museum (NL); The Painted Room, curated by Caroline Walker, GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL); PUBLIC PRIVATE, Pond Society, Shanghai (CN); Traces of Displacement, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (UK); Finding Family, Foundling Museum, London (UK) in 2023; British Art Show 9, Wolverhampton; Manchester and Plymouth (UK) and A Female Gaze, Nottingham Castle, Nottingham (UK) in 2022.
