Biography

SELECTED EXHIBITION HISTORY
2023 Lürzers Archive 200 Best Digital Artists Worldwide 2022-2023
2022 Art Miami + Galerie Ernst Hilger with work by Stephen Tompkins, Sheperd Fairey, ASGAR/GABRIEL, Marc Dennis, and Andy Warhol Nov 29 - Dec 4
2021 STROKE Art Fair Munich Germany
2021 June 6-20 SuperRare (MODI NEO Shibuya / Shibuya Station) Tokyo, Japan
2019 ECLECTIC! The Batz Collection - Improper Walls / Vienna Austria
2018 STROKE / Intoxicated Demons Gallery Munich Germany May 9-13: New Works by Stephen Tompkins (curated by Marco Schwalbe)
2017 Self-Portrait at MOCA Cleveland (Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland) The Artists' Trust
2016 Into The Void : Miami Spaces & Jan Arnold Gallery Miami Florida USA
2016 SOLO Re-Animated : a solo exhibition of new works by Stephen Tompkins. Jan Arnold Gallery, Museumsquartier Vienna Austria
2016 Fifteen Seconds Festival : Graz, Austria
2015 October 23-25: Stroke Art Fair Munich Germany
2015 April 29th - May 3rd Stroke Art Fair Munich Germany
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 : Klagenfurt Austria
2012 Artpark Villa Bulfon & Lisabird Gallery Klagenfurt Austria
2012 Lisabird Gallery (residency in surrealist Ernst Fuchs' former studio) Vienna Austria
2012 STROKE International Urban Art Fair - Munich, Germany
2011 World Beach Volleyball Grand Slam 2011 : Klagenfurt Austria : RETNA, Stephen Tompkins, XOOOOX, Markus Bacher, Lies Maculan, Voka and Meapi
2011 "Kunstler Machen Comics - Comics Werden Kunst" : Hilger Modern Contemporary : Vienna Austria : Asgar/Gabriel, Oliver Dorfer, Erró, Keith Haring, Ai Kijima, Andreas Leikauf, Laurina Paperina, Perfekt World, Mel Ramos, Stephen Tompkins, Andy Warhol, Velimir Zernovski
2011 BLOOOM art fair - Cologne, Germany
2011 WowNow International Exhibition of Urban Art : London UK
2010 "Escape 2010" : Vienna Austria (October 2010)
2010 STROKE 03 Urban Art Fair : Berlin Germany
2010 Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (Opening July 3rd 2010)
2010 "Here Not There" : MCASD (Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego)
2010 STROKE 02 Urban Art Fair : Munich Germany
2010 "Where on Earth Have You Been?" (a survey of the most influential contemporary urban artists working today) : curated by Mather:Kunst at Stereolab Gallery Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010 "New Contemporaries III" exhibition for San Diego Art Prize nominations: Project X, Solana Beach California
2010 Intoxicated Demons Gallery : Stroke 02 'Warmup' Exhibition : Munich Germany
2009 Solo exhibition "FrischFleisch" : Intoxicated Demons Gallery : Berlin Germany
2009 "Kunst im Tresor" with Intoxicated Demons Gallery : Munich Germany
2008 "Listen to Your Heart" with Islands Fold at MOHS Gallery : Copenhagen Denmark
2008 "TRANSMOGRIFICATIONS" (solo) Found Gallery : Los Angeles
2008 Art Now Fair : New York City, New York
2008 Cypress College Gallery "Intersections" : Cypress California
2007 Jack Fischer Gallery (San Francisco) at the Red Dot Art Fair : Miami Beach
2007 The Public Trust "One Up" : Dallas Texas
2007 Kunst - und Kulturverein : Hamburg Germany
2007 Blutenweiss Gallery : "Anonymous Drawings 6" : Berlin Germany
2007 Art Prostitute Gallery "Melodic Inversions and Contrary Motions" with Ron English and Steven-Hopwood Lewis : Dallas Texas
2007 The Venice Contemporary : Los Angeles
2007 Blutenweiss Gallery : "Anonymous Drawings 5": Berlin Germany
2007 BLK/MRKT Gallery Artists' Annual 2007 : Los Angeles, California
2006 David Leonardis Gallery : Chicago Illinois
2006 "Channel Nine" : Distinction Art Gallery : San Diego, California
2006 "Evidence of the New" : Thomas Lavin at the Pacific Design Center : West Hollywood, California
2006 "Works on Paper" : Fluxfactory : Long Island City, New York
2006 "Labyrinth" at ONSIX Gallery : San Francisco, California
2006 "Fanatical Attics" at ONSIX Gallery : San Francisco, California
2005 Galerie Atelier Herenplaats : Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 Jack Fischer Gallery : INSIDE/OUTSIDE : San Francisco, California
2004 "Affirmations, Apparitions, Diaries & Dreams" : Headfooters Gallery : Cleveland Ohio
2004 SOLO "Stephen Tompkins: Supraconscious" : Solo show at Risk Press Gallery : West Hollywood, California
2003 B & D Art Gallery : Geneva, Switzerland
2003 "San Francisco Invades Nashville" at TAG Gallery : Nashville, Tennessee
2003 SOLO "Stephen Tompkins' Chimeras" : Headfooters Gallery : Cleveland, Ohio
2002 "Mondes Interieurs (Inside Worlds) Black & White Drawing Exhibit" at B & D Art Gallery : Geneva Switzerland
2002 "Stephen Tompkins: Hallucinations & Other Oddities" Solo showcase at Minna Street Gallery : San Francisco, California
2002 "Digital Visions" at The Center for Contemporary Art : Sacramento California,
2001 Group Exhibit at Balazo Mission Badlands Gallery : San Francisco California (Collaborative works with Joel Elrod)
2001 "Bushwhacked" Balazo Mission Badlands Gallery : San Francisco California
2001 SOLO "Stephen Tompkins Selected Works 1998-2001" : solo show at Architects & Heroes : San Francisco, California
2000 SOLO "Stephen Tompkins: New Paintings & Screenprints" at FUSE, San Francisco California
1999 "The Art of Daniel Johnston & Stephen Tompkins" at Ironwood Industries : Austin, Texas
1998 Group Exhibit at Ironwood Industries : Austin, Texas
1997 Group Exhibit at SPACES Gallery: Cleveland Ohio

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