Carole Caroompas

Carole Caroompas is a painter whose work examines the intersection of pop culture and gender archetypes. She holds a B.A. from California State University, Fullerton and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. She is a Professor of Fine Art at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Contents

• Ep 8 Carole Caroompas
• Carole caroompas interview
• Early life and education
• Selected Exhibitions
• References

Caroompas has exhibited at the Ben Maltz Gallery in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Western Project in Culver City, Mark Moore in Santa Monica, P.P.O.W. in New York, Sue Spaid Fine Art, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Her awards include grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, COLA (City of L.A.), two from the National Endowment for the Arts and a California Community Foundation Fellowship. In 1995 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Early life and education

Carole Caroompas spent her childhood in Newport Beach, California

Selected Exhibitions

1994: "Before and After Frankenstein: The Woman Who Knew Too Much" at Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California

1998: "Carole Caroompas: Lady of the Castle Perilous" at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California

1999: “Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale go on Tour” at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, California

2008: "Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler” at Western Project, Culver City, California