Cara Tomlinson is an Oregon-based painter who has exhibited widely throughout the United States and abroad. Her abstract paintings explore the unstable boundaries between bodies and their environments, asking how perception shapes our experience of ourselves, others, and the material world.
Selected solo exhibitions include Nüart Gallery, Los Angeles and Santa Fe; the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland; BDDW Gallery, New York; White Box, Portland; Work Place Gallery, Antwerp; the Oregon Governor’s Office, Salem; and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
Tomlinson has received grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Ford Family Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Monson Arts, Ucross Foundation, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Willapa Bay Artist Residency.
She received a BA in Painting and Literature from Bennington College and an MFA in Painting from the University of Oregon. She is Associate Professor of Art and Studio Head of Painting at Lewis & Clark College.
Representation
Nüart Gallery — Santa Fe & Los Angeles
AMcE Creative Arts — Seattle