Kerry Thompson

Kerry R. Thompson was born in 1986 in San Diego California, graduating Magna Cum-Laude from San Francisco State University with a Bachelors degree in art in 2009 and later from the New York Academy of Art with a Masters degree in Painting in 2014.

Kerry has exhibited work in his first solo show, “K.R. Thompson: A New Mythos” at the Noel-Baza Gallery in San Diego, CA (2012), as well as numerous shows affiliated with the New York Academy of Art. While there, Kerry was awarded the First Year Scholarship and the Larry Creel Scholarship, and was one of 6 students to be shortlisted for the Third Year Fellowship. In addition, Kerry has participated in numerous artist residencies overseas and locally, including the Terra Foundation for American Art-Europe in Giverny, France, and the Hudson River School Painting Residency at Clermont and Olana, NY.

The artist’s work is both a celebratory and critical exploration of the delicate and highly complex natural biological systems of the world and the artificial human relationship to those systems. The work not only investigates the intricate interrelatedness of the inhabitants of these various world-wide biomes, as well as the formation of these systems through the naturally selective forces of ...

2012-14 Master of Fine Arts, Magna Cum-Laude, New York Academy of Art, NY

2010-11 Figure and Portrait Drawing/Painting, Watt's Atelier, Encinitas, CA

2005-09 Bachelor of Arts, Magna Cum-Laude, San Francisco State University, CA

2025
The Armory Show, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
New Myths - Old Systems, Blumka Contemporary, New York, NY
Scottsdale Art Week Fair, Blumka Contemporary, Scottsdale, AZ

2024
Susannah Kelly Art Award Exhibition 2024, Antler & Talon Galleries, Portland, OR
Contact High 3, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Identity in Context, KUNSTRAUM LLC, Brooklyn, NY
Spotlight Showcase, Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia PA

2023
Muralist, PS206Q, Public Art for Public Schools, NY

2021
Artists for Artists, Sotheby’s New York, NY

2019
Deck the Walls 2019, New York Academy of Art, NY

Bliss, curated by Brooke Shields and Helena Christensen, Mandarin Oriental, Miami

2018
Take Home a Nude Art Auction, Sotheby’s, NY

2017
Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, NYC, NY

Mythology, Anne Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY

2016
Picturing the Unprintable, Flux Facotory, Brooklyn, NY

Apparition, Catland, Brooklyn, NY

Bounding Main: The Artist and the Sea CW Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Nudes & Jewels, CW Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015
Small Works / Collier West, Collier West, Brooklyn, NY

New Works / Collier West, Collier West, Brooklyn, NY

2014
Scope International Contemporary Art Show, M...