Katie Tomlinson (b. 1996, Teesside) lives and works in Manchester. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art and an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London, where she received the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award.

Recent solo exhibitions include Fantasy Girls, Liminal Gallery, Margate (2024); They Only Want You When You’re Seventeen, LKIF Gallery, Seoul (2024); At Least Buy Me Dinner First, Brooke Benington, London (2022); and Fight the Moon, Paradise Works, Manchester (2021). Selected group and duo exhibitions include Any, Body, Home, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington (2025); 40 Years of the Future: Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2024); The Hari Art Prize Exhibition, The Hari, London (2024); The Pearls and the Oyster, The Birley, Preston (2024); Finger!, Manchester Contemporary with Paradise Works, Manchester (2024); A Mirror to Vanity, Brooke Benington, London (2024); Viewing Room and Buried in Affection, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo (2024 and 2022); Stashed, The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire (2024); Beep: Painting Biennial, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (2024); Liminal Salon II, Liminal Gallery, Margate (2024); LET THE ABSENCE SPEAK, LAMPO, Milan (2023); Royal College of Art Degree Show, London (2023); Stories, Bankley Gallery, Manchester (2022); Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth, Manchester (2022); A star is just a memory of a star, Brooke Benington, London, online (2022); RAW, Soho Revue, London (2022); Obstructions, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2021). She was longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize and shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year in 2025.