Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

Andrew K Thompson, The Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), CA

 

2024

The Pleasure of Being Wrong, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

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2022

Toxic Exposure: Violence Upon the Land and Image, All Eyes Gallery, San Bernardino, CA

 

2021

ART @ ONT, Ontario Airport Terminal 4, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, CA

 

2017

Automatic Midnight, C.A.C.t.T.U.S., Long Beach, CA

Cut, Punctured, Manipulated, SRO Photo Gallery, Lubbock, TX

 

2015

Light Sensitive, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

EXPAND & CONTRACT: Photography & Mixed Media, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Dr. Rotem Rozental)

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2023

Problematic Palms, Walter N. Marks Center for the Arts, Palm Desert, CA (curated by Shana Nys Dambrot)

West End Photo Invitational, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, CA

Photo Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Makery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Cathy Immordino and Richard S. Chow)

Life Logistic, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, Riverside, CA

Reunion, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

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2022

AIPAD Photography Show, Klotz Gallery, New York, NY

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2021

Art in the Plague Year, Online Exhibition, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther.)

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2019

Mirror, Mirror, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (curated by Douglas McCulloh)

In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs and Radical Experiments in Inland Southern California, 1950 to the Present,

California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA (curated by Douglas McCulloh)

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2018

Transition Zone, Chaffey Community Museum of Art, Ontario, CA (curated by Sant Khalsa) 

Center Forward 2018, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO (curated by Kris Graves and Hamidah Glasgow)

FOCUS photo l.a., Pop-up Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Juried by Jo Ann Callis, Paris Chong, and Rachel Peart)

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2017

Grey is the Color of Theory, Clara & Allen Gresham Art Gallery at San Bernardino Valley College, CA (two-person show with Sapira Cheuk)

TRANS, SPACE Gallery – Claremont, CA (two-person show with Michelle Cade. (Curated by Thomas McGovern)

Desert Waters, Marks Art Center, Palm Desert, CA (curated by Sant Khalsa)

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2016

Land of the Smokes: Landscapes and Los Angeles, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Mario Vasquez)

Hot Topic: A Photographic Response to Climate Change, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA (curated by Dan Shepherd)

Woven, Sturt Haaga Gallery at the Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA (curated by John David O'Brien)

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2015

FRAGMENT, New Wight Gallery UCLA, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Paul Sepuya, Martyna Szczesna, and Kevin Buzzell)

ABSTRACT, Filter Photo Festival, Filter Space, Chicago, IL (curated by Debora Klomp Ching)

The Altered Landscape, FOTOSEPTIEMBRE, Clamp Light Artist Studio & Gallery, San Antonio, TX (curated by Tom Turner) 

Sampled, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA (curated by Anita Bunn)

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2014

Being Here and There, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA (curated by Sant Khalsa)

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2013

Video Night, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

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Curatorial Projects

2024

San Bernardino Photography Now: I'm Grateful Thorns Have Roses, Civil Rights Institute Inland Southern California, Riverside, and The Garcia Center for the Arts, San Bernardino, Co-curated with Douglas McCulloh and Freddy Calderon

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2018

Vulnerable, The Little Gallery of San Berardino, Co-curated with Eric Servin, San Bernardino, CA

 

2017

The National Orange Show Citrus Fair Photography Exhibition, The National Orange Show, San Bernardino, CA

 

2014

The Mysterious Burial Mask: Information and Evidence, The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA

 

2011

We Got Next, Untitled Art Projects, Los Angeles, CA 

 

2006

The Fun Art Show, Sputnik, Brooklyn, NY

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Selected performances

2005 - 2014

Punk Rock Pillow Fight, Founder, Promoter, and M.C., Brooklyn, Manhattan, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino

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1998 - 2004

Incredibly Strange Wrestling, based in San Francisco, CA, toured the US, Canada, and Europe.

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Selected Bibliography/Radio/T.V.

2024

The San Bernardino Sun, 23 San Bernardino-area photographers tell community’s story ‘as they see it’, August 21

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2023

Thee Empire Podcast, Andrew K Thompson - Photography, Co-Founder, The Little Gallery of SB, Wrestling, Visual Literacy, July 28

Voyage LA, Meet Andrew K. Thompson, March 1.

Art Life 2.0 Podcast with Andrew K. Thompson, hosted by Xrstine Franco, December 28.

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2021

Cocktails with Collection: Andrew K Thompson, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA, April 22. 

L.A. Weekly, Art in the Plague Year processed the Experience, Shana Nys Dambrot, March 18, 2021.

 

2019 

In the Sunshine of Neglect: Defining Photographs and Radical Experiments in Inland Southern California, 1950 to the Present,        

Exhibition catalog, published by Inlandia Institute.

 

2018

The Hand Magazine, Issue #19, (Cover)

 

2017

KVC_aRts, 91.9 KVCR Wednesday with Andrew K Thompson, August 16, 2017.

At what point does a photo become a photo?, Analog4you.de, April.

 

2016

What's your piece of candy? International Photography Annual 3, published by Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center.

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2015

Artillery Magazine, THE HERE AND NOW, FROM A TO Z: Contemporary Landscape Photography at MOAH, Colin Westerbeck (Critical Review), March 3.

KCET Artbound, Being Here and There: Ambiguous Boundaries and Contested Terrains, Larissa Nickel (Critical Review), January 7, 2015

 

2013

Inland Empire Weekly, Erratic Impulses, Shannon (Critical Review), October 10

 

2012

The Golden Goal (Norwegian TV2), Television Segment Punk Rock Pillow Fight, April

 

2011

Saturday Night Live, May (Lead Headline), Weekend Update with Seth Meyers

Huffington Post, May, Pillow Fight World Cup Ruffles Fine Feathered Foes, (Article)

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2010

Alison Rosen is Your New Best Friend, February, Live Guest (Guest)

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2009

Time Out New York, September, Single In New York (Photography Credit)

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2008

Fox 5 News, Live Desk, Live In Studio Interview (Guest)

Time Out New York, July, Punk Rock Pillow Fighting (Article)

Maxim Radio, Sirius Satellite Radio, DeVore and Diana (Guest)

New York Magazine, Best Contact Sport: Punk Rock Pillow Fight (Award)

The Village Voice, Killin' Them Softly (Article)

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2007

Time Out New York, Feather Dustup (Article)

ELLE Magazine, Butik, (Photography Credit)

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2001

Rhythm Magazine, Mike Bordin of Faith No More (Photography Credit)

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Professional Experience 

The Little Gallery of San Bernardino, Co-Founder, 2018 - Present

Adjunct Professor, CSUSB, Chaffey College, & University of La Verne, 2015 - Present 

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Professional Affiliations

2023 - Present: Kipaipai Fellow

2018 - Present: The Little Gallery of San Bernardino, an Artist-run venue in the Inland Empire, Co-Founder

2015 - Present: Society for Photographic Education (S.P.E.)

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Recent Awards

2022 Center for Cultural Innovation, Quick Grant