Timothy Tompkins
Education:
2003
BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions:
2020
Super Collider, Special installation, LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Super Collider, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2013
Super Collider, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
TEXAS CONTEMPORARY, Houston, TX (organized by DCKT Contemporary, New York)
VOLTA NY, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2012
Capriccios, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY
2011
New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2009
You Want What You Can Not Have, solo painting installation, Art Brussels 27 (organized by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy)
Paintings, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Timothy Tompkins and Morandi: After Still Life, MLB Gallery, Ferrara, Italy *
Temporal Arcadia, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy *
Painting Selections, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA
2008
New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2007
Left Overs, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Left Overs, La Nuova Pesa, Centro per L’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006
Left Overs, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy *
2005
pow-er, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Manifest Destiny, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2004
New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2003
New Paintings, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills
Group Exhibitions:
2021
Environmental Reflections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
2020
Still Life, Still, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, California
2016
The Art of Humanity, Exhibition of the Luciano Benetton Collection, The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
The Art of Science, Technology, and the Environment, Art in Embassies Exhibition, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland
2015
Imago Mundi: Map of the New Art, Exhibition of the Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
The Art of Science, Technology, and the Environment, Art in Embassies Exhibition, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland
2014
ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Residence of the United States Ambassador to Switzerland & Liechtenstein, Embassy of the United States, Bern, Switzerland
Imago Mundi: The Art of Humanity, Exhibition of the Luciano Benetton Collection, Dakar, Senegal
INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2013
Luciano Benetton Collection: Imago Mundi, Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy *
2011
Forces of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
Non Facit Saltus, painting installation, Art Cologne (organized by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy)
INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Elements of Nature, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL
2010
OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
INCOGNITO, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Forest for the Trees, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY
Elements of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2009
Open Mind(s), Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy *
Contemporary Exoticism, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
2008
Nature Morte, Rohrer Gallery, Laguna Beach CA
Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard CA
2007
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, American Jewish University, Los Angeles
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles
Rogue Wave ’07, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles *
The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy and Illusion from the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
2006
New Code, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Natural Selection, Davidson Galleries, Seattle
Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York
U.S. Pavilion, WorldExpo, Aichi, Japan
Crude Oil Paintings, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University
2004
Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York *
New American Talent 18, curated by D. Molon, Arlington Art Museum, Arlington *
-scopeCircle Emerging Artists Exhibition, Christie’s, Beverly Hills
Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration, ACME, Los Angeles
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby, Western Project, Los Angeles
2003
SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
SIGGRAPH, San Diego *
New American Talent 18, curated by D. Molon, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin *
2002
Wild West, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles
MAKING, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
* = catalogue
Public Collections:
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy
Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
West Collection, Pennsylvania
Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Teaching:
2008-09Lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Bibliography:
2015
"The Art of Science, Technology, and the Environment", exhibition catalog, illustrated pp.24-25
2014
Solomon, Serena. “Big Bang Simulator Inspires LES Art Exhibition,” DNAinfo New York, Feb. 3, 2014
2013
Wyszpolski, Bondo. “It’s a Never-Ending Journey”, Easy Reader News, November 22, 2013
Storms, Sarah. “The Art of the Upgrade”, Lonny Magazine, May, 2013
2012
Roth, David M. “SF’s Triple-Play Art Fair Weekend”, Square Cylinder, May 10, 2012
2011
Meneguzzo, Marco. "Non Facit Saltus", essay in the catalogue, illustrated pg.9
2009
Borgenicht, Nicole. "Timothy Tompkins", Art Ltd., May 2009
Borgenicht, Nicole. "Timothy Tompkins", THE Art Magazine, June 2009
Meneghelli, Luigi. "Temporal Arcadia", essay in the catalogue, 2009
Pozzati, Maura. "Timothy Tompkins and Morandi: After Still Life", essay in the catalogue, 2009
Verzotti, Giorgio. "Open Mind(s): collezionismo, comasco nel contemporaneo 1978-2008", essay in the catalogue, 2009
2008
Kolber, Georgina, "The Horizon and the Interstate Sublime", depARTure, November 2008
2007
Brooks, Amira, "Timothy Tompkins", LA Weekly, August 15, 2007
Dambrot, Shana Nys, "Rogue Wave 07", Art Review, September 2007
Knight, Christopher, "45 Painters Under 45 – They Help Make the L.A. Scene", Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2007
Knight, Christopher, "Glossy still lifes from retail’s rejects", Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2007
Melrod, George, "Rogue Wave 07, Art Ltd., September 2007
Ollman, Leah, The Good Type of ‘Rogue’, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2007
2006
Meneghelli, Luigi, Left Overs, Essay in the catalogue, 2006
P. Frank, "Patrick Wilson, Timothy Tompkins, Chris Sauter", L.A. Weekly, January 2006
2005
R. Zone, "Timothy Tompkins", ArtScene, December 2005
Wagonfeld, Judy, "Artists turn the physical into the emotional in 'Natural Selection'", Seattle Post Intelligencer, June 17, 2005
2004
E. Sorokina, "Crude Oil Paintings", essay in the catalogue, 2004
2003
D. Molon, "New American Talent", essay in the catalogue, 2003