Studi
2002-2006: Practice-based PhD Fine Art, Goldsmiths College
2000-2001: MA Fine Art, Byam Shaw School of Art
1989-1992: BA (hons) Illustration, 2:1 Commended, Manchester Metropolitan University

Mostre personali
2007: Dolly Thompsett: New Paintings, Fred London and Fred Leipzig
2005: Artlab/Dolly Thompsett, Ritter/Zamet, London
When I Lived in Modern Times, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

Mostre collettive
2007: Drifting clouds, Image Furini Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo, Italy
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
2006: The Wonderful Fund Collection on Tour, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Sweetex, Standpoint, London
2005: Morpho Eugenia, Museo di Stato, Repubblica di San Marino, Italy
The Wonderful Fund Collection on Tour, Le Musée de Marrakech, Morocco
2004: Arrivals, The Pump House, London
Caution: Uneven Surfaces, temporarycontemporary, London
Goldsmiths, MA Show, London
2003: Fantastic!, Catacombs under St Pancras Church, London

Fondazioni e istituzioni che possiedono opere di Dolly Thompsett
Ernst & Young, Goldsmiths College Collection, Neuberger Berman, Simmons & Simmons, Teseco Foundation (Pisa, Italy), UBS, The Wonderful Fund

Cataloghi
2007: Martin Herbert, Dolly Thompsett: New Paintings, Fred, London
2006: The Wonderful Fund on Tour, Pallant House, Chichester
2005: Rita Salvaggio, Morpho Eugenia, Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Repubblica di San Marino
Alistair Robinson, When I lived in Modern Times, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2003: Matthew Arnatt, Fantastic!, St Pancras Catacombs, London

Riviste e articoli
Martin Cooner, Artlab, Dolly Thompsett, Time Out London, July 6-13 2005
Christopher Collett, When I Lived in Modern Times, Metro, September 28, 2005

Premi
2005: Full Bursary, Goldsmiths College