Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) is an American painter and printmaker whose work has played a pivotal role in the revival and reinvention of figurative painting since the late 1970s. Educated at Trinity College in Hartford, where he studied art and English, Dunham developed a visual language that bridges abstraction and representation, drawing equally from modernist painting, comic strips, Surrealism, and vernacular imagery. Over the past four decades, he has built a distinctive iconography of trees, bathers, waves, biomorphic forms, and solitary figures that oscillates between landscape and body, humor and unease, structure and improvisation.

Dunham first gained wide recognition in the 1980s with works that fused hard-edged abstraction and cartoon-like forms, challenging the rigid divide between high modernism and popular culture. In the 1990s, he shifted more decisively toward figuration, introducing boldly contoured male and female nudes set within charged, often hallucinatory environments. Throughout his career, printmaking has been central to his practice; etching, monotype, and lithography have allowed him to test and extend his pictorial vocabulary with graphic precision and tonal depth.

Dunham has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions such as New Museum, New York, NY; Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Millesgården, Stockholm, Sweden; and Drammens Museum, Drammen, Norway. His work can be found in public institutions including Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; and the Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil, among others. 

Carroll Dunham has been an avid printmaker at Two Palms since 1995. The resulting works can be found in institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.