Mallard by Kerry R. Thompson

Kerry R. Thompson was born 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.

While there, Kerry was awarded multiple scholarships, and was one of 6 students to be shortlisted for the Third Year Post-Graduate Fellowship. Since exhibiting his work in his first solo show, “K.R. Thompson: A New Mythos” at the Noel-Baza Gallery in San Diego, CA (2012), Kerry has shown in numerous exhibitions throughout New York City and beyond, and has work in the private collections of local and international collectors. In addition, Kerry has participated in several artist residencies overseas and locally, including the Terra Foundation for American Art-Europe in Giverny, France, the Hudson River School Painting Residency at Clermont and Olana, NY, and the Bingham Cottage Artist-in-Residence at Hog Island Audubon Camp in Bremen, ME. He was the recipient of a generous grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation of the Arts, and recently completed a mural for elementary school PS206Q in Queens through the School Construction Authority of NY’s Percent for Art program.

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 evolution, but also the human role as an orchestral force acting on these systems from the outside, not within.

Kerry continues to paint, work, and teach in the New York area, and lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn.