Recent solo exhibitions include Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; GEM The Hague; Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; GRIMM, Amsterdam and New York; Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham; ProjectB, Milan and Space K, Seoul. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; Sainsbury Centre, Norwich; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Rudolfinum, Prague. Walker is represented in international collections including the Saatchi Collection, London; The Franks-Suss Collection, London; ING Bank Collection, Netherlands; Akzo Nobel Foundation, Netherlands, and the Kolon Group Collection, Korea.  Her work was included in Phaidon’s Vitamin P3 and a monograph, Picture Window, was co-published by Anomie and GRIMM in 2018.

Walker’s paintings, which reveal the diverse social, cultural and economic experiences of women living in contemporary society, have received significant acclaim for their aesthetic beauty and mysterious narratives. They have been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the world and enthusiastically collected by public institutions, corporate bodies and private clients.

Drawing on her own photographic source material, Caroline Walker provides a tantalising window into the everyday lives of women of different ages, races and circumstances, who might be regarded as surrogates for the artist. Blurring the boundary between objectivity and lived experience, the artist highlights often overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit.

Encompassing locations such as Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Budapest, London and Scotland, Walker’s scenes hint at the complexity of her subjects’ lives whilst completely avoiding narrative resolution. Often exploring the notion of ‘women’s work’, the artist captures specific spaces such as pharmacies, restaurants, hotels, bakeries, perfumiers, tailoring workshops, beauty salons, laboratories, bathhouses, refugee hostels and modernist apartments.

Caroline Walker also excels as a printmaker, publishing three series of lithographs with Enitharmon Editions: Initiations (2014), Sunset (2018) and most recently Nocturnes (2023), a set of four new prints which like her latest paintings show a significant shift towards portraiture and family life — in this case featuring her mother, daughter and sister-in-law.