Timothy Curtis

Biography

Timothy Curtis [b. 1982] is a self-taught artist from Philadelphia, who lives and works in New York City. His work was debuted publicly in the U.S. at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the group exhibition Coney Island Is Still Dreamland (To a Seagull) by the artist Stephen Powers (2015-2016). Curtis realized his first solo exhibition in November 2017 at Kaikai Kiki’s Hidari Zingaro gallery in Tokyo, Japan, curated by Takashi Murakami. Curtis had his first solo show in New York with Albertz Benda (2019) and was featured in the group exhibition The Pencil is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists, organized by Claire Gilman of The Drawing Center, New York in 2019. For the 2020 edition of The Armory Show, Timothy presented a solo exhibition titled Alive-n-Well with Albertz Benda. Recent shows include 100 drawings from Now at The Drawing Center, New York (2020), The Cat’s Cradle at Albertz Benda, New York (2021), and Negotiating Grids at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA (2022). 


Curtis is set to present new paintings in City as Studio at K11 Art Foundation Hong Kong curated by Jeffrey Deitch in March 2023.

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TIMOTHY CURTIS 

 B. 1982, Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York  

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

US Embassy, Art in Embassies, US State Dept., Tegucigalpa,

Honduras 

Burger Collection, Hong Kong 

Lorenzo and Teresa Fertitta Collection, Las Vegas, NV 

The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH 

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA  

 

SELECT EXHIBITIONS 

2023               City as Studio curated by Jeffrey Deitch, K11 Musea,

                          Hong Kong  

 

2022               Negotiating Grids, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine

                          Arts, Philadelphia, PA 

 

2021                Timothy Curtis: The Cat’s Cradle, albertz benda, New

                          York, NY  

                           Go Figure, Over The Influence, Hong Kong  

                           THIS IS AMERICA, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, DE   

 

2020                Temporary Decisions: Inkblots and Bikes, Arndt Art

                           Agency, Berlin, Germany 

                            100 Drawings From Now, The Drawing Center, New

                           York, NY  

                            Fragmented Bodies, albertz benda, New York, NY  

                           ALIVE-N-WELL, The Armory Show, New York, NY 

 

2019                 The Pencil is a Key, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 

                            Timothy Curtis: Things to Remember, albertz benda,

                           New York, NY 

 

2018                 Beyond the Streets, curated by Roger Gastman, Beyond

                           the  Streets LA, Los Angeles, CA 

 

2017                  Laugh Now, Laugh Later: Painting Drawings (solo

                            show),  curated by Takashi Murakami, Kaikai Kiki Hidari

                            Zingaro and Bar Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan

 

2015                   Stephen Powers: Coney Island is Still a Dreamland (To

                             A Seagull), curated by Sharon Matt Atkins,

                             Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY