Iowa City, IA USA b. 1973
Education
1996 — BFA, University of Manitoba
1999 — MFA, Columbia University, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 — Forthcoming survey exhibition, Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB
2022 — Monte Clark, Vancouver, BC
2021 — 303 Gallery, New York, NY
2018 — 303 Gallery, New York, NY
2016 — Oil Paintings, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Nocturnes, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2015 — Lantern Gallery, Winnipeg MB
2014 — Grice Bench, Los Angeles CA
2013 — Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 — Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
2009 — Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
2009 — 303 Gallery, New York NY
2007 — The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2006 — Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
2005 — 303 Gallery, New York NY
2005 — Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
2003 — Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
2003 — 303 Gallery, New York NY
2001 — Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV
2001 — 303 Gallery, New York NY
2001 — Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice Italy
2000 — 303 Gallery, New York NY
1997 — Recent Work, Plug-In Contemporary Art, Winnipeg MB
1996 — Off/Ice Gallery, University of Manitoba
Group Exhibitions
2021 — Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX
2020 — 303 Gallery: Alien Landscapes
2019 — 303 Gallery: 35 Years
2017 — Eternal Youth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL
2014 — Contemporary Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada, Mendel Art Gallery SK
2014 — TOWER, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver BC
2014 — Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, Turin Italy
2013 — Dear Portrait, MOSTYN, Wales
2012 — Spectral Landscape, curated by David Liss and Josee Drouin-Brisbois, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto ON
2010 — It Is What it Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON
2009 — Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1), Burger Collection, Berlin, Germany
2008 — Attention to Detail, Flag Art Foundation, New York NY
2008 — Ambivalent figuration; people, Samson Projects, Boston MA
2007 — Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2007 — All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York NY
2007 — XXS, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2006 — New Work: Tim Gardner, Marcelino Goncalves, Zak Smith, SF MoMA, San Francisco CA
2005 — Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Masculinity in Contemporary Art, curated by Shamim Momin, The Salina Art Center, Salina Kansas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art IN Cars and Ketchup: Photorealist Images of the American Landscape, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY
2004 — She’s come undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York NY
2004 — Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration, curated by Peter Loughrey and Chip Tom, ACME, Los Angeles CA
2003 — Crosscurrents at Century’s End: Selections from Neuberger Berman Art Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL.; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL.; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL
2002 — Painting On The Move, curated by Peter Pakesch, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2002 — Here is There 2”, Secession, Vienna, Austria
2002 — Some Options in Realism, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
2002 — Art + Mountains: conquistadors of the useless, The Alpine Club, London UK
2001 — Best of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT
2001 — Waterworks: U.S.Akvarell 2001, The Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
2001 — Brooklyn! Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth FL
2001 — Works on Paper From Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London UK
2001 — The way I see it, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris FR
2000 — Plots and Intentions: An Idiosyncratic Look at the Narrative, Berrie Center, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah NJ
2000 — Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
2000 — Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY
2000 — Corvi-Mora, London UK
1999 — No Place Rather than Here, 303 Gallery, New York NY
1998 — The Sound of One Hand: the Collection of Collier Schorr, Apex Art C.P., New York NY
1998 — George Rush at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY
1996 — F.I.T.E. Gallery, Winnipeg MB
Bibliography
2015 — Laurence, Robin. “Carrie Walker and Tim Gardner Examine the Natural World” Georgia Straight, March 18
2013 — Henderson, Lee, “Landscape of the Inner Self: The Art of Tim Gardner” Border Crossings Magazine, May
2013 — Laurence, Robin, “Tim Gardner Rewilds the Watercolour” Canadian Art Magazine, Winter
2012 — Becker, Noah. “Tim Gardner: Studio Lives” Canadian Art Magazine, Spring
2011 — Gardner, Tim, “Time Gardner Interviews Florian Maier-Aichen” Art in America, May 11
2010 — “An Olympic Moment” The Globe and Mail, February 5
2010 — Colman, David “ Tim Gardner” Elle Décor, July/August
2009 — Mendelsohn, Meredith, “Keeping it Real” Art+Auction, December 2
2007 — Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, “A Life More Ordinary” The Times (London), January 9
2007 — Glover, Michael, “Postcards from the Motherland” The Independent, January 23
2007 — Ward, Ossian, “Private View: Tim Gardner” Time Out London, January 17-24, p35
2007 — Weidner, Johanna, “Top Gallery in London is Latest Stop” The Record (Winnipeg), March 31
2007 — “Young Canadian Scores Solo Show at U.K.’s National Gallery” CBC Arts, January 18
2007 — Nestruck, J. Kelly, “Up-and-Coming Canadian Artist Gets Solo Show at London’s National Gallery”, Canada.com, January 26
2007 — Guner, Fisun, “Canadian with a Light Touch” thisislondon.co.uk, January 18
2007 — “National Gallery Presents Tim Gardner” artdaily.org, January
2007 — “National Gallery, London Presents Tim Gardner” HULIQ.com, January 15
2007 — Wilkinson, Judith, “Canadian Club: Canadian Artists take London” C Magazine, No. 93, Spring
2007 — “Art Review” Metro UK, January 18, p. 25
2007 — Renzetti, Elizabeth, “Old Masters, Hosers and KFC” ca-yahoo.com, February 21
2006 — Bollen, Chrostopher, “Arty Party” VMan, Fall/Winter, p. 107
2005 — “Goings on About Town” The New Yorker, May 2, p. 26
2005 — Fischl, Eric, “Eleven Artists from Everywhere” The Believer, December / January pp. 21-30
2003 — Trainor, James, “Winnipeg on the Hudson” Border Crossings, vol.22, num.3, issue 87, p.36-47
2003 — Kino, Carol, “Tim Gardner at 303” review, Art in America, June, No.6, p.125-126
2003 — Drolet, Owen, review, FlashArt, March-April, Vol.XXXVI, p.111-112
2003 — Patel, Alpesh, review, www.newmuseum.org, February
2002 — The New York Sun, January 16th,p.14
2002 — Jones, Sarah, “Focus Painting: Part II” Flash Art, Nov. – Dec., Vol.XXXV, p.83
2002 — Preview, tema celeste, May/June, No. 91, p. 123
2002 — Hirsch, Faye, “working proof” Art on Paper, July
2002 — Gardner, Tim, IN, Vol. 1, Is. 1, p. 1-5
2002 — Preview, Las Vegas Life, September, Vol. 4, No. 12, Las Vegas, NV
2002 — McGee, Kimberly, “Details, Details” Las Vegas Sun, Las Vegas, NV, October 25, p.1E
2002 — White, Ken, “Still Life” Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las Vegas, NV, October 5, p, 49
2002 — Christian, Claire, “Boys will be boys” Las Vegas City Life, NV, October
2002 — “Tim Gardner”, Harper’s, October, Vol. 303, No. 1817, p.19
2002 — Douglas, Sarah, review, “303 Gallery” Flash Art, July-September, p119-120
2002 — Richard, Frances, review, www.artforum.com , May
2002 — V Magazine, No. 11, May-June, p. 40
2002 — “On View” New York, May 14, Vol. 34, Is. 19, p. 95
2002 — Visionaire, Man, Spring, No. 35
2002 — Griffin, Tim, “Boys II men” Time Out, New York, May 3-10, Issue 293, p. 68
2002 — Levin, “Voice Choices: Tim Gardner” The Village Voice, May 8, p. 78
2002 — Gell, Aaron, “Critical Eye: Art” review, W Magazine, April 2001, p.126
2002 — Aletti, Vince, review, Artforum, Vol. XXXIX, No. 4, December, p. 130
2002 — Ho, Christopher K., “Medium as Genre: Tim Gardner at 303 Gallery” zing magazine, New York, NY, Vol. 12, p. 236
2002 — “Cultivating Your Own Gardner” Border Crossings, Vol. 19, No. 4, p. 8-9
2002 — Udovitch, Mim, “Hot List” Rolling Stone, September 14, p. 10
2002 — Katz, Vincent, review, Art in America, September, p. 151-153
2002 — Reproduction, Harper’s Magazine, September, p. 16
2002 — Frame, Allen, editor’s choice, Bomb, Spring, no. 71, p.18
2002 — Richard, Frances, Artforum, March, p.131
2002 — Klein, Lee, review, M, March, p. 13-14
2002 — Saltz, Jerry, “Look Homeward” Village Voice, February 2, p. 72
2002 — “About Town”, New Yorker, January 24
2001 — Shapiro, David, review, New York Arts, International Edition, Vol. 5, No. 2, p. 136-138
2001 — Schjeldahl, Peter, “Pragmatic Hedonism” The New Yorker, April 3, p. 95
2000 — “Oughta Be Famous” Western Living, September, p. 12
1999 — Higgie, Jennifer, “Natural Selection” Frieze, issue 49, Nov-Dec, pp. 76-77
1999 — Mahoney, Robert, “No Place Rather Than Here”, Time Out, New York, Issue 188, April 29
Books and catalogues
2010 — Shaughnessy, Jonathan. “ Tim Gardner” C’est Ce Que C’est: Acquisitions recentes d’art actuel Canadien, Ottawa
2008 — Attention to Detail, exhibition catalogue, The Flag Art Foundation, New York
2007 — Tim Gardner: New Works, The National Gallery, London UK
2007 — “All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy” exhibition catalogue, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York NY
2006 — The Portrait Now, The National Portrait Gallery, London UK
2005 — Tim Gardner, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
2003 — Crosscurrents at Century’s End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art
2003 — Collection, Neuberger Berman, New York NY
2003 — Cream 3, Phaidon Press, Inc., New York, p. 156-159
2002 — Vitamin P, Phaidon Press, London, p. 116-9
2000 — “Waterworks: U.S.Akvarell 2001” (exh.cat), text by Berndt Arell and Kim Levin, The Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden, p 77-103
Collections
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
Burger Collection, Berlin
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX USA
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ON Canada
Neuberger Berman Collection, New York NY
SFMoMA, San Francisco CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC
Whitney Museum, New York NY
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Vaughan, ON