Carole Caroompas

Carole Caroompas is a painter whose work examines the intersection of Pop culture and gender archetypes. She holds a B.A. from California State University, Fullerton and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. She is a Professor of Fine Art at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

Caroompas has exhibited at the Ben Maltz Gallery in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Western Project in Culver City, Mark Moore in Santa Monica, P.P.O.W. in New York, Sue Spaid Fine Art, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Her awards include grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, COLA (City of L.A.), two from the National Endowment for the Arts and a California Community Foundation Fellowship. In 1995 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

(http://articles.latimes.com/1999/apr/27/entertainment/ca-31401, http://www.western-project.com/artists/carole-caroompas/carole-caroompas-biography/)