Andrew K. Thompson Art
Photographer / Artist / Alchemist
Andrew K. Thompson is an artist and educator working in San Bernardino, California. He holds an MFA degree in Studio Art and Design from the California State University, San Bernardino, a Certificate Degree in Art Business from New York University, and a BFA in Photography from the Academy of Art, San Francisco. He has exhibited throughout the United States, including at the Klotz Gallery, Gallery 1/1, California Museum of Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, and the SRO Photo Gallery at Texas Tech University. Musings on his work have appeared on Saturday Night Live, The Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, and KVC_aRts. His images have appeared in L.A. Weekly, The Hand Magazine, and In the Sunshine of Neglect exhibition catalog. He has written for Artvoices and Dotphotozine. Thompson is the co-founder of The Little Gallery of San Bernardino and is represented by Klotz Gallery in NYC.
Email: AndrewKThompsonArt@gmail.com
Instagram: @Andrew_K_Thompson
Education
2015
MFA in Studio Art and Design, California State University, San Bernardino, CA
2010
Certificate Degree in Art Business, New York University, NY
1997
BFA in Photography, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2021
ART @ ONT, Ontario Airport Terminal 4, Chaffey Community Museum of Art
Art in the Plague Year, Online Exhibition, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther.)
2019
Size Matters 2019, Medium Festival of Photography, Sparks Gallery, CA (juror Kai Caemmerer)
In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs and Radical Experiments in Inland
Southern California, 1950 to the Present, California Museum of Photography, Riverside,
CA (curated by Douglas McCulloh)
2018
Transition Zone, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, CA (curated by Sant Khalsa)
Made by Hand, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA (5th Anniversary of The Hand Magazine)
FOCUS photo l.a., Pop-up Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Juried by Jo Ann Callis, Paris Chong, and Rachel Peart)
Center Forward, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (curated by Kris Graves and Hamidah Glasgow)
2017
Automatic Midnight, C.A.C.t.T.U.S. Long Beach, CA (solo)
Desert Waters, Marks Art Center, Palm Desert, CA (curated by Sant Khalsa)
2016
Cut, Punctured, Manipulated., SRO Photo Gallery, Lubbock, TX (solo)
Land of the Smokes: Landscapes and Los Angeles, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Mario Vasquez)
Hot Topic: A Photographic Response to Climate Change, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA (curated by Dan Shepherd)
Woven, Sturt Haaga Gallery at the Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA (curated by John David O'Brien)
2015
Size Matters, Low Gallery, San Diego, CA (curated by Gordon Stettinius)
FRAGMENT, New Wight Gallery UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Kevin Buzzell, Martyna Szczesna, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya)
ABSTRACT, Filter Photo Festival, Filter Space, Chicago, IL (curated by Debora Klomp Ching)
Sampled, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA (curated by Anita Bunn)
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