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TIM HAWKINSON
Born 1960 San Francisco, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education 1984 San Jose State University, California, B.F.A.
1989 University of California at Los Angeles, M.F.A.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021– 2022Drip Drawings, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Tantric Drip Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019 Tim Hawkinson, New Works, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 All that glitters, Must come down, Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2017 Tim Hawkinson, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, FL
2016 Garden Variety, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Counterclockwise, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Over the Water: Tim Hawkinson, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2013 Tim Hawkinson, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2010 One Man Band, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY Tim Hawkinson, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Tim Hawkinson, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2008 Tim Hawkinson, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand Art, Sydney, Australia
2007 Tim Hawkinson: Mapping the Marvelous, Museum of Contemporary How Man is Knit, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Tim Hawkinson, Nyehaus, New York, NY
Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson, The J. Paul Getty Museum,Los Angeles, CA
2005 Tim Hawkinson, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
An Empty Space: Tim Hawkinson, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, NY
Tim Hawkinson: Überorgan, 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Tim Hawkinson, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 –
2023 To Bough and To Bend, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
2021 WHERE WE ARE, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Our Whole, Unruly Selves, San Jose Museum of Modern Art, San Jose, CA
2020 To Bough and To Bend, Bridge Projects, Los Angeles, CA
45 at 45: L.A. Louver Celebrates 45 Years with 45 Artists, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.
2018 Frankenstein’s Birthday Party, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Moons, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2017 Garage Inventors, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Conceptual Craft, DENK Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Particle and Wave, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs
Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
This Too Shall Pass, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Back to the Real, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
Eureka, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Cinderella, Sky Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
In the Round, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, NY
Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Hosfelt Gallery,
San Francisco, CO
Connecting Sound Etc. Cable Works, Cable Sounds, Cables
Everywhere, Freiraum Quartier2International, Museumsquartier Wien, Vienna
Unsparing Quality, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
(Catalogue) Grounded, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Public Collections
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
San Jose Museum of Art, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selected Bibliography
2020 “Tim Hawkinson.” In 50X50: Stories of Visionary Artists from the Collection.
San José, CA: San José Museum of Art, 2020.
https://50x50.sjmusart.org/hawkinson/
2019 O’Brien, John David. Los Angeles: Tim Hawkinson, Denk. Artillery Magazine,
May / June 2019
Ollman, Leah. The jeweled belt made with egg cartons and Mylar, plus other
splendid sculpture from Tim Hawkinson. Los Angeles Times, February 26.
2018 Brewer, Gary. Studio Visit: Tim Hawkinson, The Indices of the Unknown. Art and Cake, May 21.
Desmarais, Charles. Summer exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery a monstrous affair. San Francisco Chronicle. July 6.
Edalatpour, Jeffrey. Tim Hawkinson is Wonderfully Weird at PACE. Metro Active. August 1.
Heath, Emma. Catch the glitter before it comes down, at Tim Hawkinson’s new exhibit. SF Gate. July 30.
Manley, Justin. Frankenstein’s Birthday Party @ Hosfelt.
Squarecylinder. July 20.
Nonnenberg, Sheryl. Regal Recycling. Palo Alto Online. August 8.
Proyen, Mark Van. Tim Hawkinson @ Pace Palo Alto. Squarecylinder, August 5.
Tim Hawkinson at Pace, Palo Alto. Blouin Artinfo. August 8.
2017 Roth, David. Best of 2016. Squarecylinder. January 5.
Tanner, Marcia. Transcendental Tinkering: Garage Inventors @Hosfelt. Squarecylinder. June 8.
2016 Azzarello, Nina. New York’s Pace Gallery Presents Tim Hawkinson’s
Mechanized Witty Works. Designboom. March 18.
Desmarais, Charles. Tim Hawkinson, the ever-inventive navel-gazer. San Francisco Chronicle. April 1.
Meier, Allison. Mechanized Art that Makes a Mop Talk and a Medicine Cabinet Tell Time. Hyperallergic. March 25.
Miles, Christopher. Tim Hawkinson. Flash Art. December 22.
Roth, David M. Tim Hawkinson @ Hosfelt. Squarecylinder. April 17.
Willette, Jeanne. Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman. Visual Art Source. March.