Stephen Tompkins

"Daydreams and nightmares seem to inform Stephen Tompkins' work equally. One addictively absorbing example is GummyMorph, a compendium of lugubrious shape-shifting goblins and tumescent worms that inflate, bloat, pop, reconfigure, melt and sway to a mesmerizing percussive soundtrack. Domesticated Celestial Bestiary (this animation opens with a gong as a house decants an unlikely menagerie of creatures before promptly deliquescing), is another key example of Tompkins' associative process which playfully sutures the sublime and the ridiculous." - Robin Clark, PhD, MCASD (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego) for the San Diego Art Prize 2010 nomination

"Just as an LSD stamp distorts our vision , the paintings of Stephen Tompkins reform our perception. Continuously changing from background to foreground, we are following lines and have been trapped trying to find a figurative form or an organized chaos, we are caught red-handed trying to find the beginning or the end. Stephen Tompkins multilayered visions experiences with the abundance of informations and the power of chance . His anti-natural cartoon forms seem suddenly organic. Well known strokes of our childhood are losing their original forms, abandoned in their transparencies, ...

Ohio University
Philosophy Masters program special emphasis in Phenomenology, Existential Psychology & Semiotics

Bowling Green State University
B.A. Philosophy

Cleveland State University
Art, Music Theory & Electronic Music Composition

2015 Art Wynwood Miami - Galerie Ernst Hilger
2014 Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco - Galerie Ernst Hilger
2014 September and October - Munich & Berlin Germany - Schwalbe & Schwalbe - Virtue of Fools: an Homage To Francis Bacon
2014 STROKE Urban Art Fair - Schwalbe & Schwalbe Munich Germany
2014 Art Cologne - Galerie Ernst Hilger
2014 Art Paris - Galerie Ernst Hilger
2014 VOLTA NY Daniele Buetti & Stephen Tompkins - Galerie Ernst Hilger
2014 Art Wynwood Miami - Sponsored Artist & Galerie Ernst Hilger
2013 Art Miami & Wynwood Walls (Galerie Ernst Hilger)
2013 Vienna Fair w/ Galerie Ernst Hilger : Vienna Austria
2013 CHICAGO EXPO International Exposition of Contemporary & Modern Art with Galerie Ernst Hilger
2013 BMW Welt (World) Museum curated by Schwalbe & Schwalbe : Munich Germany
2013 Cash Cans & Candy international exhibition of Urban & Street Art : Hilger NEXT & Hilger Brotkunsthalle : Vienna Austria
2013 Stephen Tompkins' SACRED DATA (solo exhibit) SOZE Gallery Los Angeles
2013 STROKE Urban Art Fair : Berlin Germany
2013 Escape the Golden Cage 2013 Palais Kinsky : Vienna Austria
2013 Strictly Paper Schwalbe & Schwalbe : Munich Germany
2012 World Beach Volleyball Grand Slam 2012 : Lisabird Gallery : Klagenfur...