Katie Tomlinson (b. 1996, Tees Valley) is a painter based in Manchester. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2021–2023), where she was supported by the Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship Award.

Recent solo exhibitions include Fantasy Girls (2024) at Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK; They Only Want You When You’re Seventeen (2024) at LKIF, Seoul, South Korea; At Least Buy Me Dinner First (2023) at Brooke Benington, London, UK; and Fight The Moon (2022) at Paradise Works, Manchester, UK.

In 2025, Tomlinson was awarded an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant, was shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year, and longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize. In 2024, she was shortlisted for both The Hari International Art Prize and the BEEP Painting Biennial. That same year, she exhibited in 40 Years of the Future: Painting at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK; Liminal Salon at Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK; The Pearls and the Oyster at The Birley, Preston, UK; Viewing Room at Gallery Supermarkt, Tokyo, Japan; and A Mirror to Vanity at Brooke Benington, London, UK.

Other recent group exhibitions include Any, Body, Home, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery (2025); Let the Absence Speak, curated by Mattia Pizzani and Marta Orsola Sironi, Milan, Italy (2023); Eye of the Collector, Two Temple Place, London, UK (2023); Buried in Affection, Galerie Supermarkt, Tokyo, Japan (2022); Stories, Bankley Gallery, Manchester, UK (2022); Fayre Share Fayre, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2022); A Star is Just a Memory of a Star, Brooke Benington, London, UK (2022); RAW, Soho Revue, London, UK (2022); and Obstructions, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK (2021).