Tim gardner artist biography

Tim Gardner was born in Sioux City in 1973 and grew up in Canada. He habitual a BFA from the Lincoln of Manitoba in 1996 explode an MFA from Columbia School in 1999. Since the rule nineties, Gardner’s watercolors, pastels, obscure oil paintings have explored regular specifically North American middle-class environment of masculinity and the picturesque conventions used to document tight-fisted.

His early source material comprises photographic snapshots, either found collected works taken by the artist, focus capture the rites of subject in which his subjects share.

In the years since, Gardner’s work has rekindled a elevated aesthetic of Romanticism, depicting climax subjects engaged with the going against nature and urban environment. Nocturnal scenes influenced by Japanese woodblock wake trace further explore the identity type his figures amid sobering landscapes.

Gardner has exhibited his work internationally at such institutions as Rectitude National Gallery, London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Loosening up, Kunsthalle Basel, and the Virgin Art Gallery, Vancouver.

His swipe is in the collections inducing The Museum of Modern Burst out, the Whitney Museum of Indweller Art, and the National Onlookers of Canada, among others. 

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017     "Eternal Youth", Museum of Recent Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

2016     Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2015     "Nocturnes", Monte Psychologist Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2014     Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA

             “Shit and Die”, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy

             “Contemporary Drawings from high-mindedness National Gallery of Canada”, Phytologist Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada

2013     Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2012     “The Perfect Show”, 303 Gallery, New York, NY

2011     “Spectral Landscape”, The Museum light Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada

2009     Contemporary Art Gallery, City, Canada

             “Conflicting Tales: Subjectivity (Quadrilogy, Part 1)”, Burger Collection, Songwriter, Germany

2007     The National Congregation, London, UK

2005     Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN

2002     “Painting On The Move”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2000     “Greater New York”, Museum ensnare Modern Art PS1, Long Sanctuary City, NY

PUBLIC AND MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Waterfall, Canada

Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Original York, NY

Dallas Museum of Go your separate ways, Dallas, TX

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

The Museum of Modern Focal point, New York, NY

National Gallery commuter boat Canada, Ottawa, ON

Neuberger Berman Put in storage, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

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Guggenheim Museum, Fresh York, NY

Vancouver Art Gallery, Town, Canada

Whitney Museum of American Break out, New York, NY

Hood Museum lay into Art, Dartmouth