Caroline Gates

Caroline Gates is an artist based in Greenville, SC. She achieved her MFA in Painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2021. In 2025, she received the Founders Award at the Seven Bridges Foundation.
Gates is a figurative artist who explores themes of human connection, agency, and longing. Working in oil paint, Gates creates quiet work, examining figures or objects in psychologically charged spaces. Inspired by artists like Edward Hopper or Bo Bartlett, Gates’ images have a narrative feel, as if each piece is a mere glimpse or clip from a larger scene. She places viewers in the moment, left to decide the context on their own.