Cody Tumblin (he/him) was born in Tennesse & currently lives and works in Chicago. He is an artist, a cook, and occasional writer. 

codytumblin@gmail.com


Education
2012 Goldsmiths University of London, London UK
2013 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Academic
2021 Morris Museum of Art, Emerging Artist Council - Artist Statement Workshop
2021 Visiting Artist Depauw University
2016 Visiting Aritist and Lecture at Denison University, OH
2014 Visiting Artist and Lecture at Aarhus Kunstskole, Denmark

Awards
2020 Newcity Magazine Breakout Artist
2019 Hopper Prize Finalist
2013 Presidential Scholarship Award, SAIC

Publications and Interviews
Stitched into Bloom, Tatter Quarterly, 2020
VAST Magazine Interview, 2020 ART MAZE Magazine, 2019
Interview with Hopper Prize, 2019
Interview with Hunted Projects, Edinburgh Scotland, 2019 Interview in Comp Magazine by Chester Alamo Costello, 2018
Interview on IthacaMOMA, 2016
Interview with LVL3, 2014

Residencies
WNDR Museum, a collaboration with Hyun Jung Jun and AppleButter Animated, 2021
Ace Hotel, with thanks to Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago 2019
Godsbanen, Aarhus Denmark, 2014

Writing
Revealing the Theatricality of Painting, Silke Otto-Knapp at The Renaissance Society, 2020
Comedy of Errors, Interview with Laurel Farrin, 2020, Two Coats of Paint
Paul Erschen: Half Remembered, 2020,Two Coats of Paint
Review of solo shows Kate Conlon and Carris Adams at Goldfinch Gallery, 2019
An Assembly of Voices: Review of Sun Setting/ Faith in Strangers at Devening Projects, 2019
To Capture the Memory of Light: Review of Ann Craven at Shane Campbell, 2019
All Well and Good at Circle Contemporary / Arts of Life, Chicago Artist Writers, 2019
Jenn Smith ‘Divine Ventriloquism’ at Apparatus Projects, Chicago Artist Writers, 2019

Curation
If a Mountain Could Love, Circle Contemporary, Chicago IL, 2022

Solo & Two Person Shows
TBA Solo, Left Field Gallery, Fall 2024
Hoxton Hotel, Chicago, 2022
Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, Chicago, 2022
A Long Sleep Before Spring, HG Inn, Chicago, 2021
Stray Light Shadow Between, Devening Projects, Chicago, 2019
Doom and Gloom, w/ Joshua Jay Johnson at C for Courtside, Knoxville TN, 2018
It Blooms Tomorrow, Good Enough, Atlanta, 2017
Today's Special, Mild Climate, Nashville, 2017
Shits and Giggles w/ Keith Allyn Spencer at Skylab Gallery, Columbus, 2016
The Outlet curated by Katy Cowan, Milwaukee, 2016
SPF15 w/ Lila de Magalhaes, San Diego, 2016
Sunlight Spit, Face in the Sky with Zack Rafuls at Fort Houston, Nashville, 2016
Solo booth at VOLTA NY w/ LVL3 Gallery, New York, 2016
Awkward Dimensions, 2 person show at LVL3 w/ Jaime Angelopoulos Chicago, 2015
Bits and Pieces, The Packing Plant, Nashville, 2015
TELL TALE Solo exhibition at Devening Projects, 2015
Forlorn Luck, Lunchmoney Gallery, Aarhus, Denmark, 2014
Cody Tumblin, The Office, The Salon Series, Chicago, 2013

Group Shows  
12 hour day, 12 hour night, curated by Cameron Masters, Helen J Gallery, LA, 2023
I am Curious (Blue), mepaintsme online exhibition, 2023

Summer Show, No Place Gallery, Colombus OH, 2023
Barely Fair, Good Naked Gallery, Chicago, 2023

The World We Were Born Into No Longer Exists, Gnosiophobia, NY, 2023
Loving Forms, Julius Caesar, Chicago, 2023
Ingress Gallery / Soho House @ Expo Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, 2023
Mind Melt, Ingress Gallery, Soho House Chicago, 2022

A Tender Harkening, curated by Georganna Greene, Open Gallery, Nashville, 2021
Surface Break, Egg Collective, New York, 2020
Drawings, Paintings, Maybe a Sculpture, Everybody, Chicago, 2019
To Gather Together, curated by Chad Kouri, Co Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, 2019
Rom Com, Good Naked, Brooklyn, 2019
Mi Cabana no es Grande, TN, 2019
Summer Soup, Three Four Three Four, Brooklyn, 2019
Slow Drip, Resort Baltimore, Baltimore, 2019
Like Sirens, curated by Erin Hayden and the Arts of Life Committee, Open Gallery, Chicago, 2019
Rulers curated by Jason Lazarus at Coco Hunday, Tampa FL, 2019
Velvet Ropes, 0-0 Gallery, Los Angeles LA, 2019
Local Comfort, LVL3, Chicago IL 2018
Paper Cuts, Saatchi Gallery/ Kris Day 2018
Pocket Object, curated by Noel Morical, mulitple traveling galleries USA, 2018
As If A Field Could Become Some Dream curated by Brian Scott Campbell, No Place Gallery, Columbus OH 2018
Winter Romance, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago IL 2018
Bone White Burial, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, New York NY 2017
Water and Dreams, curated by Katy Cowan, Chicken Coop Contemporary, Portland 2017
Got It For Cheap Vol. 2 curated by GIFC Worldwide, LA, NY, Greece, 2017
Limited Wear, LVL 3, Chicago IL, 2017
X7, LVL 3, Chicago IL 2017
VELVET ROPES curated by GIFC Worldwide in NY 10.2016
Got It For Cheap curated by Charlie Roberts, rotating show in Copenhagen, Paris, London, LA
Come As You Are, Galleria Annarumma, Naples Italy, 2016
Mother Popcorn curated by Kevin McNamee-Tweed and Peter Shear, Big Medium, Austin, TX 2016
asperity economy asymmetry austerity intimacy curated by Kate Sierzputowski, The Franklin, Chicago, 2016

Limited Wear, LVL3, Chicago IL 2016
I Wish I Felt This Way at Home curated by Ann Catherine Carter and Zack Rafuls at Torrance Shipman, New York, 2015
Seers, Signs curated by Dan Devening, 57W57 Arts, New York, 2015
PRTY PPL curated by Josh Reames at Circuit 12, Dallas, 2015
Code Art Fair with Lunchmoney Gallery, Denmark, 2014
SHIT IS REAL, Devening Projects, Chicago, 2013