TIMOTHY CUMMINGS
Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1968 Lives and works in San Francisco, California
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Cloverleaf, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 2013 Timothy Cummings, Transart Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2011 Drawing Down the Moon, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York 2008 Last Call, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 2006 The Great Escape, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York 2005 Two Faces of Eve, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York Queen, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 2004 Pretty, Pretty, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York 2003 Picture Show, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 2002 Spot Portraits, Dabora Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Spot Portraits, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 2001 Neverland, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalogue) 1999 Masquerade, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 1998 Nocturnal Emissions, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California Auslander, Tenderloin Salon, Berlin, Germany 1997 Project Room Exhibition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 1996 Fragile Monsters, Cursed Children: Introductions ‘96, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 1995 Global 33, New York, New York Featured Artist, Wilkes Bashford Company, San Francisco, California 1994 Trespass, Show N Tell Gallery, San Francisco, California 1993 Marionettes, Puppets and Paintings, Architrave, San Francisco, California The Nude: Classic and Erotic, Island Alternative Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Humor Show, Oehlschlaeger Gallery II, Sarasota, Florida 1992 Circus Saints and Other Curiosities, Six Gallery, Los Angeles, California Sign of the Cross, Jamison Thomas Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1989 First Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, Jury Choice, Corrales, New Mexico 1988 Armory of the Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Cutout/Decoupage, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Public Selects: A Crowdsourced Exhibition, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2012 Portraiture Post Facebook, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 2011 All That Glitters, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York 2010 Valley of the Dolls, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2008 In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz School, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California 2007 Inner Child: Good and Evil in the Garden of Memories, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, New Jersey (catalogue) Remembering Jerome, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, California 2006 Facing West, Tinhorn Public Works, San Francisco, California Visage, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York See Jane Run: Contemporary Art about Childhood (and other cozy things), Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California Strictly Graphite* with a little bit of gouache, College of Marin Art Gallery, Kentfield, California 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco, California 2004 Eve, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York New Tales to Tell – West Coast Narrative Art, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, California Juxtapoz 10 Year Anniversary Show, 111 Minna, San Francisco, California Summertime, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York 2005 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco, California 2003 Spectrum, Access Institute, San Francisco, California Sprout, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 2002 Jewels In a Jewelbox, The Community Center Project, San Francisco, California Bay Area Printmakers, Artists Gallery, SFMOMA, San Francisco, California Trillium Press: Past, Present and Future, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California 2001 1010, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California Storytellers: The Figure in Time and Place, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 2000 Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 1999 Collector ~ Curator, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California Horror Show Part 2: Modern Grotesques, Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco, California Spinal Epidural, Please! Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California Toys In Contemporary Art II, d.p. Fong Galleries, San Jose, California 1998 Face, Somar Gallery, San Francisco, California Labyrinth, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California 1997 Tweakville, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalogue) Sex and Subversion...Forbidden Art in the 90’s, Rita Dean Gallery, San Diego, California Three Painters, Space, San Francisco, California 1996 99 Drawings, Webster Street Gallery, San Francisco, California Consumption, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California 1995 Psychoanalysis and Art: The Re-Embody-Ment of Desire, SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, California Pop Holiday Jamboree, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, New York Wild Side, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, California Art Crime\Where the Risks Are Real, Build, San Francisco, California
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Seven: A Group Show, CCAC Myrtle Street Studios, Oakland, California Lobby Exhibition in conjunction with the Magic Theater’s Dog Opera, San Francisco, California Bias, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, California Peace Art Show: Atomic Synthesis & Social Fallout from NM, S. Broadway Cultural Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico Cyberstroika, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California Horror Show, Two Person Exhibition, Place Pigalle, San Francisco, California Diva, Collision Gallery, San Francisco, California 1994 Something for Everyone, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, California Bong, Alleged Gallery, New York, New York Bong, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, California (traveling exhibition) Barbie and Beyond, Morphos Gallery, San Francisco, California 1993 Sex Art 3, Mark Chester Gallery, San Francisco, California 1992 Tres Pecadores Modernos, Elysium Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1989 First Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, Jury Choice, Corrales, New Mexico 1988 Armory of the Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2007 Hammer Presents: Night of the Living Dolls, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California Festival du Court Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand, Paris, France
SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Transarte Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil
SELECTED COMMISIONS
2016 Album Artwork for “Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets” by Rufus Wainwright, released by Deutsche Grammophon and Universal Music Canada, April 22, 2014.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gomez, Adrian. “Wainwright Like No Other.” Albuquerque Journal, November 6, 2016. https://www.abqjournal.com/882791/like-no-other-2.html Roberts, Kathaleen. “ABQ Artist designs cover for Rufus Wainwright album.” Albuquerque Journal, November 6, 2016.
“Transarte Opens in Sao Paulo With Works By American Artist Timothy Cummings.” Art Review. Artlyst, October 29, 2013.
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Corpus. Los Angeles, California, Aids Project Los Angeles: Spring 2003. Hechter, Conrad. “Dirty Work.” blue Magazine, March 2003. Reproduction. “Juxtapoz Gallery.” Juxtapoz Magazine, September 2002. Parnass, Larry. “Marked by Life.” Daily Hampshire Gazette, April 9, 2002. Bing, Alison. “Bay Area Printmakers: Making Quite an Impression.” SF Gate, March 21, 2002. Bonetti, David. “Cummings at Catharine Clark.” The San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2001. Reena, Jana. Neverland. San Francisco, California. Catharine Clark Gallery: 2001. Kundahl, Gustavus. “Collector-Curator.” Artweek, February 2000. Nelson, Julie. “Timothy Cummings.” Art Papers, November 1999. Jana, Reena. “Timothy Cummings.” Flash Art, November 1999. Tucker, Annie. “The Art of Timothy Cummings.” Juxtapoz, September 1999. Mardon, Mark. “Masquerade.” Bay Area Reporter, May 20, 1999. Children in Art: A Century of Change. , Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University: 1999. Reproduction. “The Art Academy.” Artweek, March 1999. Reproduction. creampuff, February 18, 1999. Wilson, Jeffrey, “The Queer Cultural Center’s ‘FACE’s’ at Somar Gallery.” Bay Times, June 25, 1998. Reproduction. Oblivion, February 5, 1998. Freedman, Marcy. “Butterflies, Tygers, Foreclosed Homes, and Fat Boys! Oh My! (A First Thursday Report).” SF Weekly, February 4, 1998. Finkel, Jori. “Visual Arts: Over There.” East Bay Express, December 26, 1997. Helfand, Glen. “Art: ‘Tweakville’.” San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 17, 1997. Price, Steven O. “The Steve Lady.” Hype, May 1997. Lucie-Smith, Edward. ARS Erotica: An Arousing History of Erotic Art, New York, NY, 1997. Hunt, David. Tweakville, San Francisco, California. Catharine Clark Gallery, December 1997. “New American Paintings: West Coast.” The Open Studios Press, January 1997. Ed. “Seven Painters with Talent.” Juxtapoz, Fall 1997. Baker, Kenneth. “A Whole Lot of Art.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 23, 1996. Winter, Jeffrey. “Pretty Pictures/Pretty Boys, An Intimate Portrait of Painter Timothy Cummings.” Bay Times, February 22, 1996. Dorn, Paul. “Bias at Morphos Gallery.” Artweek, October 1995. Friedman, Roberto. “Art on a Wire.” Bay Area Reporter, September 30, 1993. Ed. “Interview: The Doll Makers.” Project-X Magazine, September 1992. Cover Reproduction. NuCity, January 1993. Ed. "Interpretations Intersect in Sign of the Cross." The Oregonian, July 1992. Ed. "Frida Kahlo." Colores. KNME-TV (Albuquerque, New Mexico), January 1991. Ed. "Asi Somos." KLUZ-TV (Albuquerque, New Mexico), October 1990.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, California
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