Caitlin Blomstrom

b. 1989, Virginia

Lives and works in Nashville, TN

EDUCATION

BFA, Painting + Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Group Exhibition, CE Gallery, Nashville, TN

Domestic Detritus, Brea Gallery, Brea CA

2022

A Matter of Fact/A Fact of Matter?, Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY

2021

Made in VA, Juror Grace Deveney (U.S. Biennial (Prospect New Orleans)), Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA

The CANTemporaries Exhibition, Contemporary Arts Network (CAN), Newport News, VA

Nourish, Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA

2019

New Waves 2019, Juror Carmen Hermo (Brooklyn Museum), Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA

Double Edged, BOJU Gallery, Virginia Beach, VA

2018

Get Home Safe, Cure, Norfolk, VA

2017

Act II, Glass Wheel Studio, Norfolk, VA

Embracing Narrative, Portsmouth Art & Cultural Center, Portsmouth, VA

Trompe L’oeil, Glass Wheel Studio, Norfolk, VA

Minimal Effort, Cure, Norfolk, VA

ARTIST RESIDENCY AND AWARDS

2023 COOP Gallery Artist Member, Nashville, TN

2023 Penland Winter Residency, Bakersville, NC

2022 Kunstraum LLC. Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Honorable Mention, Made in VA, Juror Grace Deveney (U.S. Biennial (Prospect New Orleans)), Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA

2021 CANTemporaries Artist Program, Contemporary Arts Network (CAN), Newport News, VA

2019 Best in Show, New Waves 2019, Juror Carmen Hermo (Brooklyn Museum), Virginia MOCA, Virginia Beach, VA

2018 Second Place (Collaborative), Charles Taylor Visual Arts Center, Virginia Glass Guild: 31st Annual Juried Exhibition, Hampton, VA

2015 - 2017 Studio Artist Residency Program, Glass Wheel Studio, Norfolk, VA 

PRESS

2023 Artist Registry, Locate Arts / Tri-Star Arts Tennessee

2023 Life & Work with Caitlin Blomstrom, Nashville Voyager

2022 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 49 + 50

2020 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 45

2018 New American Paintings, issue #136 South

2016 “The Glass Wheel Studio: Keeping The Creative Wheels Turning”, Distinction Magazine, March, 2016

CURATORIAL

2021 Photographic Tendencies, Gallery 261, Norfolk, VA

2019 Night Shift: The Apartment Show, Apartment No.1, Norfolk, VA

2018 Get Home Safe, Cure, Norfolk, VA

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

2021

Systems of Limitation, Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass Studio (Vestibule 102), Norfolk, VA

Reframed/Reflected, Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass Studio, Norfolk, VA

2018

Arbitrary Systems, Chrysler Museum of Art Perry Glass Studio (Vestibule 102), Norfolk, VA

Virginia Glass Guild: 31st Annual Juried Exhibition, Charles Taylor Visual Arts Center, Hampton, VA

VISITING ARTIST

2021

Old Dominion University, Department of Art, Norfolk, VA

The Hague School, IB Visual Arts, Norfolk, VA