Stephen Tompkins

Stephen Tompkins (born October 4, 1971, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American artist, animator, and composer based in Southern California.

Some of his work was published in the book BLK/MRKT TWO[3] by Die Gestalten Verlag [de] and in Year One Rewind, a survey of urban and graffiti art by Last Gasp Press.

His animated short, Gummymorph, appears in the film Freak Out in Cucamonga, a documentary about the early studio years of Frank Zappa.

[9] In December 2009, he was nominated as a composer for a Maverick Movie Award in the short film category for "Best Original Score".

[10] Tompkins was nominated for the 2010 San Diego Art Prize Award by curator Robin Clark, PhD of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and his work was selected to be part of the MCASD exhibit "Here Not There" which opened in June 2010.