Born in 1982 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
‘Fake Flowers Last All Winter’, Albertz Benda, Untitled Art, Miami, US
2021
‘The Cat’s Cradle’, Albertz Benda, New York, US
2020
‘Timothy Curtis: Temporary Decisions’, Inkblots and Bikes, A3, Berlin, Germany
2019
‘Timothy Curtis: Things to Remember’, Albertz Benda, New York, US
2017
‘Laugh Now, Laugh Later: Painted Drawings’, Kaikai Kiki Hidari Zingaro and Bar Zingaro, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
‘Echos of Picasso’, Museo Picasso Málaga, Andalusia, Spain
‘City as Studio curated by Jeffrey Deitch’, K11, Hong Kong, China
‘Beyond the Streets’, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2022
‘The Armory Show, Albertz Benda’, New York, US
‘Negotiating Grids’, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
2021
‘This is America’, Kunstraum Postdam, Berlin, Germany
‘Go Figure’, Over the Influence, Hong Kong, China
2020
‘Alive-n-Well, the Armory show’, Albertz Benda, New York, US
‘Fragmented Bodies’, Albertz Benda, New York, US
2019
‘The Pencil is a Key’, Claire Gilman, The Drawing Center, New York, US
‘Timothy Curtis: Things to Remember’, Albertz Benda, New York, US
‘Beyond the Streets’, Roger Gastman, 25 Kent, Brooklyn, US
2018
‘Beyond the Streets’, Beyond the Streets LA, Los Angeles, US
2015 - 2016
‘Coney Island is Still a Dreamland (To A Seagull)’, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, US
Public Commissions
2018
I Wear My Money on My Face, Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, US
2017
Alive and Well in Brooklyn, 63 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, New York, US
2016
Coney Island Art Walls, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Brooklyn, US
Public Collections
Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea
US Embassy, Art in Embassies, US State Dept., Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
Burger Collection, Hong Kong, China
The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, US
Lorenzo and Teresa Fertitta Collection, Las Vegas, US
Timothy Curtis
Timothy Curtis [b. 1982] is a self-taught artist from Philadelphia, where he was first introduced to the arts via graffiti writing as a young child. Following his release from a lengthy prison sentence Curtis moved to New York City where he established a focused studio practice in 2015. While incarcerated he threw himself into studying art history, drawing, and painting and was able to use his studies to form a mural painting crew consisting of artists sentenced to life in prison, painting educational murals around the prison campus to teach, motivate and add color to the otherwise drab environment.
Despite remaining on parole since his release in late 2015, Curtis has gone on to have solo presentations in Tokyo, New York City, Berlin and was included in the group exhibition The Pencil is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists, organized by Claire Gilman of The Drawing Center, New York City (2019). He was recently included in Negotiating Grids at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US (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, as well as an upcoming group exhibition Echos of Picasso at Museo Picasso Málaga in September 2023.
