Carole Caroompas

Carole Caroompas (1946 – July 31, 2022) was an American painter known for work which examined the intersection of pop culture and gender archetypes.^[1]

Carole Caroompas
Born	November 1946 (Scorpio) Oregon City, Oregon
Died	July 31, 2022
Education	M.F.A. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1971. B.A. California State University, Fullerton, California, 1968.
Known for	Painting
Awards	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1995), National Endowment for the Arts, Painting (1987/1993), COLA, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant (1999), California Community Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2005)

Early life and education

Carole Caroompas was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and spent her childhood in Newport Beach, California.^[2]

Caroompas earned a B.A. from California State University, Fullerton and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California.^[3] She taught fine art courses at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.^[4]

Awards and fellowships

Caroompas' awards included 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.^[3] In 1995 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.^[5]

Selected exhibitions

Caroompas 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.

1994: "Before and After Frankenstein: The Woman Who Knew Too Much" at Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California^[6]

1998: "Carole Caroompas: Lady of the Castle Perilous" at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California^[7]

1999: “Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale go on Tour” at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, California^[8]

2008: "Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler” at Western Project, Culver City, California^[9]

2015: "Lore and Behold: The Art of Carole Caroompas" at Pasadena City College^[10]

Personal life

Caroompas died in 2022, from Alzheimer's disease, at the age of 76.^[4]