Nasce in California nel 1967.
Ha studiato Belle Arti a Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Vive e lavora a Los Alamitos.

mostre personali

2014
Super Collider, DCKT Contemporary, New York City, NY
2013
Super Collider, Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA
Volta NY, DCKT Contemporary, New York City, NY
2012
Capriccios, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson, WY
2011
New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York City, NY
2009
You Want What You Can Not Have, Art Brussels 27, organized by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Paintings, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA
Timothy Tompkins and Morandi: After Still Life, MLB Gallery, Ferrara, Italy
Temporal Arcadia, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Painting Selections, 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA
2008
New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2007
Left Overs, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Left Overs, La Nuova Pesa, Centro per L’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006
Left Overs, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
2005
Pow-er, Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Manifest Destiny, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2004
New Paintings, DCKT Contemporary, New York
2003
New Paintings, Creative Artists Agency, Beverly Hills

mostre collettive

2016
The Art of Humanity, exhibition of the Luciano Benetton Collection, The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
The Art of Science. Technology, and the Environment, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland
2015
Imago Mundi. Map of the New Art, exhibition of the Luciano Benetton Collection, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
The Art of Science. Technology, and the Environment, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland
2014
Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Residence of the United States Ambassador to Switzerland & Liechtenstein, Embassy of the United States, Bern, Switzerland
Imago Mundi. The Art of Humanity, exhibition of the Luciano Benetton Collection, Dakar, Senegal
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
2013
Luciano Benetton Collection: Imago Mundi, Collateral Event of the 55th International Art Exhibition la Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2011
Forces of Nature. Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles
Non Facit Saltus, painting installation, Art Cologne (organized by Studio la Città, Verona, Italy)
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Elements of Nature, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne
2010
OsCene, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Forest for the Trees, Heather James Fine Art, Jackson
Elements of Nature, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Los Angeles
2009
Open Mind(s), Villa del Grumello, Como
Contemporary Exoticism, Studio la Città, Verona
2008
Nature Morte, Rohrer Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
Photos and Phantasy. Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California
2007
California Art. Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, American Jewish University, Los Angeles
Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles
Rogue Wave ’07, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
The Eclectic Eye. Selections of Fantasy and Illusion from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
2006
New Code, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
Otis. Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Natural Selection, Davidson Galleries, Seattle
Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York
U.S. Pavilion, WorldExpo, Aichi, Japan
Crude Oil Paintings, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University
2004
Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York
New American Talent 18, a cura di D. Molon, Arlington Art Museum, Arlington
ScopeCircle Emerging Artists Exhibition, Christie’s, Beverly Hills
Gio Ponti. Furnished Settings and Figuration, ACME, Los Angeles
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Western Project, Los Angeles
2003
SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Exhibition, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
SIGGRAPH, San Diego
New American Talent 18, a cura di D. Molon, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin
2002
Wild West, 4F Gallery, Los Angeles
MAKING, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

collezioni pubbliche

Fondazione Benetton, Treviso
Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
West Collection, Pennsylvania
Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

After still life - 2009

• Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 08 v.1 - after Morandi, 2008 Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 08 v.1 - after Morandi, 2008
• Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 08 v.3 - after Morandi, 2008 Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 08 v.3 - after Morandi, 2008
• Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 09 v.6 - after Morandi, 2008 Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 09 v.6 - after Morandi, 2008
• Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 08 v.10 - after Morandi, 2008 Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Winter 08 v.10 - after Morandi, 2008
• Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Spring 08 v.1 - after Morandi, 2009 Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Spring 08 v.1 - after Morandi, 2009
• Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Autumn 07 v.1 - after Morandi, 2008 Timothy Tompkins, LeftOvers Autumn 07 v.1 - after Morandi, 2008
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bibliografia

2014
Serena Solomon, Big Bang Simulator Inspires LES Art Exhibition, DNAinfo New York, Feb. 3, 2014
2013
Bondo Wyszpolski, It’s a Never-Ending Journey, Easy Reader News, November 22, 2013
Sarah Storms, The Art of the Upgrade, Lonny Magazine, May, 2013
2012
David M. Roth, SF’s Triple-Play Art Fair Weekend, Square Cylinder, May 10, 2012
2011
Marco Meneguzzo, Non Facit Saltus, saggio in catalogo, p. 9
2009
Nicole Borgenicht, Timothy Tompkins, Art Ltd., May 2009
Nicole Borgenicht, Timothy Tompkins, THE Art Magazine, June 2009
Luigi Meneghelli, Temporal Arcadia, essay in the catalogue, 2009
Maura Pozzati, Timothy Tompkins and Morandi: After Still Life, essay in the catalogue, 2009
Giorgio Verzotti, Open Mind(s): collezionismo, comasco nel contemporaneo 1978-2008, essay in the catalogue, 2009
2008
Georgina Kolber, The Horizon and the Interstate Sublime, depARTure, November 2008
2007
Amira Brooks, Timothy Tompkins, LA Weekly, August 15, 2007
Shana Nys Dambrot, Rogue Wave 07, Art Review, September 2007
Christopher Knight, 45 Painters Under 45 – They Help Make the L.A. Scene, Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2007
Christopher Knight, Glossy still lifes from retail’s rejects, Los Angeles Times, August 24, 2007
George Melrod, Rogue Wave 07, Art Ltd., September 2007
Leah Ollman, The Good Type of ‘Rogue’, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 2007
2006
Luigi Meneghelli, Left Overs, Essay in the catalogue, 2006
P. Frank, Patrick Wilson, Timothy Tompkins, Chris Sauter, L.A. Weekly, January 2006
2005
R. Zone, Timothy Tompkins, ArtScene, December 2005
Wagonfeld Judy, Artists turn the physical into the emotional in 'Natural Selection, Seattle Post Intelligencer, June 17, 2005
2004
E. Sorokina, Crude Oil Paintings, essay in the catalogue, 2004
2003
D. Molon, New American Talent, essay in the catalogue, 2003