Tim Hawkinson
BIO
Born 1960 San Francisco, 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
Drip Drawings, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, CA (Catalogue)
2020
Tantric Drip Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2019
Tim Hawkinson, New Works, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Tim Hawkinson: All that glitters, Must come down, Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2017
Tim Hawkinson, Scarfone / Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Florida
2016
Tim Hawkinson: Garden Variety, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tim Hawkinson: Counterclockwise, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Over the Water: Tim Hawkinson, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2013
Tim Hawkinson, Pace Gallery, New York, NY (Catalogue)
2010
Tim Hawkinson: One Man Band, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Tim Hawkinson, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Tim Hawkinson, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
2008
Tim Hawkinson, Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2007
Tim Hawkinson: Mapping the Marvelous, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
(Catalogue)
Selected Solo Exhibitions (cont.)
2007
Tim Hawkinson: How Man is Knit, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (Catalogue)
Tim Hawkinson, Nyehaus, New York, NY (Catalogue)
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 Catalogue)
2004
Tim Hawkinson, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2002
Tim Hawkinson: Überorgan, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Directions: Tim Hawkinson, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
2000
Tim Hawkinson, Miyake Design Studio, Tokyo, Japan
Tim Hawkinson: Pentecost, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Tim Hawkinson: New Work, White Cube, London, England (Catalogue)
Tim Hawkinson, Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (Catalogue)
Tim Hawkinson: Überorgan, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams,
MA (Catalogue shared with Power Plant)
1999
Tim Hawkinson: New Works, Akira Ikeda Gallery, AIG Exhibition/Taura, Japan (Catalogue)
Tim Hawkinson: Art of the Machine, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Tim Hawkinson: Pneumatic Quilt (collaboration with Issey Miyake), Ace Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Tim Hawkinson, Galleria Milleventi, Milan, Italy
1997
Tim Hawkinson: Secret Sync, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA; traveled to
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Tim Hawkinson, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Humongolous: Sculpture and Other Works by Tim Hawkinson, Akron Art Museum,Ohio;
traveled to: Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA; Arnoff Center
for the Arts, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati and Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; John
Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (Catalogue)
Selected Solo Exhibitions (cont.)
1996
Tim Hawkinson: Ahi Ikmnostw, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (Catalogue)
1995
Tim Hawkinson, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Tim Hawkinson, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA (Catalogue)
1993
Tim Hawkinson, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1991
Tim Hawkinson, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden (Catalogue)
1990
Tim Hawkinson, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1988
Tim Hawkinson: Objects, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Tim Hawkinson, Brunswick Gallery, Missoula, Montana
1984
Tim Hawkinson, Gallery 6, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1982
Tim Hawkinson, Freight Door Gallery, Santa Clara University, CA
1981
Tim Hawkinson, Carlson Tower Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Frankenstein’s Birthday Party, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017
Conceptual Craft, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CA
2016
This Too Shall Pass, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection,
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Particle and Wave, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
2015
Back to the Real, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
Eureka, Pace Gallery, 508 West 25th Street, New York, NY
2014
Cinderella, Sky Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
In the Round, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Hosfelt Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Connecting Sound Etc. Cable Works, Cable Sounds, Cables Everywhere,
Freiraum Quartier21 International, MuseumsQuartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
Unsparing Quality, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (Catalogue)
Grounded, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Centennial of the Department of Art at San Jose State University, Natalie and
James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose State University, CA
0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art. Organized by
North Carolina Museum of Art and Penland School of Crafts. Traveled to:
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (Catalogue)
Call of the Wild, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Labor and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA (Catalogue)
Transposition: Motion is Action, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2012
Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Semi-Permeable, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY
Death and Life of an Object: Lynn Aldrich, Laurie Frick and Tim Hawkinson,
Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Soft Machines, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Broodwork: It’s About Time, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design,
Los Angeles, CA
2010
Divine Comedy, Sotheby’s, New York, NY (Catalogue)
The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists, 1980–2010, Geffen Contemporary at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY (Catalogue)
Retro-Tech, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Look Again, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
A Sense of Humor, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Skin, Wellcome Collection, London, England
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Size DOES Matter, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY (Catalogue; curated by
Shaquille O’Neal)
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
2009
California Maximalism, Nyehaus, New York, NY
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Art and Electronic Media, Bitforms Gallery, New York, NY
I.D.: Individual Demographics, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2008
The Way Things Go, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
XXIc: Exhibition 3 “XXIst Century Man”, The Miyake Foundation, 21_21
Design Sight, Tokyo, Japan
Carl Andre / Tim Hawkinson, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
2007
All for Art! Great Private Collections Among Us, Museé des beaux-arts de Montréal,
Canada (Catalogue)
Skin of/in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (Catalogue)
Ensemble, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation for
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
From Africa to America, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Not For Sale, PS 1, New York, NY
2006
Heads, Pescali & Sprovieri, London, England
Swell, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY
EgoMANIA, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy
2005
Summer group show, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
A.B. Normal, Nyehaus, New York, NY
Laguna’s Hidden Treasures: Art from Private Collections, Laguna Art Museum,
Laguna Beach, CA
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
(Catalogue)
Material Matters, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY (Catalogue)
2003
We Are Electric, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2002
Fantasy Underfoot: The 47th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. (Catalogue)
2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (Catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
2001
The Americans: New Art, Barbican Gallery, London, England (Catalogue)
Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art, Williams College Museum
of Art, Williamstown, MA; traveled to Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery,
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (Catalogue)
Clenchclutchflinch, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York, NY (Catalogue)
Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2000
American Bricolage, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (Catalogue)
Hand-Made in the USA, Sprovieri Gallery, London, England
Arte Americana, Ultimo Decennio, Ravenna, Italy
The Greenhouse Effect, Serpentine Gallery, London, England (Catalogue)
1999
Group exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Persona, Galerie Carousel, Paris, France
Head to Toe: Impressing the Body, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, MA (Catalogue)
Dreaming III: Contemporary American Art and Old Japanese Ceramics, Akira Ikeda
Gallery, New York, NY
48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (Catalogue)
Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion,
Stamford, CT (Catalogue)
1998
Issey Miyake: Making Things, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Deep Thought, Basilico Fine Art, New York, NY
Être Nature, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
1997
Yard Sale, Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
CA 90001-185, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI;
traveled to: Aspen Art Museum, CO (Catalogue)
1996
Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
First Person, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Shirts and Skins: Absence/Presence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum,
Honolulu, HI
The Scream: Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
(Catalogue)
The Empowered Object, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum,
Escondido, CA (Catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
1995
Veered Science, Huntington Beach Art Center, California, CA (Catalogue)
California in Three Dimensions, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
(Catalogue)
Beyond 15 Minutes, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA (Catalogue)
1994
Current Abstractions, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In the Black, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA (Catalogue)
Hooked on a Feeling, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
This is My Body, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992
Imperfect Order, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA
1991
Evocative Objects, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1990
Group exhibition, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lead & Wax, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989
Modern Objects, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Self-Evidence, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1988
Excavations, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
Profound Visions, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Livestock, Los Angeles, CA
Two Person Exhibition, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Young American Artists V, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
1986
Abstract Dimensional Painting, Richmond Art Center, VA
All-California 86: On a Small Scale, Laguna Art Museum, CA
1985
Coming Attractions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
New Art in the West, Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paint in Space, Main Gallery, San Jose State University, CA
1984
Painted, Tinted, Tainted Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
1983
Painted Constructions, Main Gallery, San Jose State University, CA
Selected Bibliography
2021
Tim Hawkinson: Drip Drawings, (exhibition catalogue), Text by Doug Harvey.
PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, CA
Brewer, Gary, Tim Hawkinson: Drip Drawings at PRJCLA, Whitehot Magazine, Dec. 2021
Heitzman, Lorraine, Drawings That Drip, Ideas That Soar, Art and Cake, Nov. 19, 2021
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.
Selected Bibliography (cont.)
2016
Meier, Allison. Mechanized Art that Makes a Mop Talk and a Medicine Cabinet Tell Time.
Hyperallergic. March 25.
Roth, David M. Tim Hawkinson @ Hosfelt. Squarecylinder. April 17.
Willette, Jeanne. Tim Hawkinson and Patty Wickman. Visual Art Source. March.
2014
George, Herbert. The Elements of Sculpture: A Viewer’s Guide. London and New York:
Phaidon, 2014: p. 100, illustrated.
Unsparing Quality (exhibition catalogue). Dialogue by Susan Laxton and Farrah Karapetian.
Los Angeles: Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, illustrated.
2013
Labour and Wait (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Julie Joyce, Britt Salvesen, Glenn Adamson,
and William Cibson. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, pp. 120–123.
Tim Hawkinson (exhibition catalogue). Interview by Jori Finkel. New York: Pace Gallery.
0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue).
Text by Jennifer J. Dasal. Raleigh and Penland: North Carolina Museum of Art and
Penland School of Crafts, pp. 82–85, illustrated.
2011
Albertini, Rosanna. White Owls: Artists I Found in Los Angeles 1994–2011. Los Angeles:
Oreste & Co. Publishers, illustrated.
2010
Divine Comedy (exhibition catalog). New York: Sotheby’s, pp. 118–119, illustrated.
50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalog). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace
Gallery, illustrated.
2008
Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine. Paris: Éditions du
Regard, p. 238.
Macnair, Jennifer, Thomas Frick, and Nola Butler, eds. BCAM/LACMA 2008. Los Angeles:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, p. 197.
2007
Art Works: The Progressive Collection. Texts by Dan Cameron, Peter B. Lewis, Toby Devan
Lewis, and Toni Morrison. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., p. 101, illustrated.
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today. London: Phaidon Press Limited, p. 81, illustrated.
Ensemble (exhibition brochure). Text by Christian Marclay. Philadelphia: Institute of
Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.
Harper, Glenn and Twylene Moyer. Conversations on Sculpture. Texts by Twylene Moyer,
Glenn Harper, and Jann Garden Castro. Hamilton, New Jersey: International Sculpture
Center Press, pp. 186–193, illustrated, discussed.
Skin of/in Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Art,
pp. 52–56, illustrated.
Tim Hawkinson (exhibition catalogue). Text by Steve Erickson. New York: Foundation 20 21.
Tim Hawkinson: How Man is Knit (exhibition catalogue). Text by John Yau. New York:
PaceWildenstein.
Selected Bibliography (cont.)
2007
Tim Hawkinson: Mapping the Marvelous (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Rachel Kent and
John C. Welchman. Sydney, Australia: Museum of Contemporary Art.
2006
Size DOES Matter (exhibition catalogue). New York: Flag Art Foundation, illustrated.
2005
Material Matters (exhibition catalogue). Ithaca, New York: Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art, Cornell University, p. 41, illustrated.
2004
Tim Hawkinson (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lawrence Rinder, Howard N. Fox
and Doug Harvey. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
2002
Binstock, Jonathan P. The 47th Corcoran Biennial: Fantasy Underfoot (exhibition
catalogue). Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Rinder, Lawrence.: Whitney Biennial 2002 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Whitney
Museum of American Art.
2001
Berry, Ian, ed. Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art (exhibition
catalogue): Saratoga Springs, New York: Tang Teaching Museum.
Directions: Tim Hawkinson (exhibition brochure). Text by Valerie Fletcher. Washington,
D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Nahas, Dominique. Clenchclutchflinch (exhibition catalogue). New York:
Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery.
Sladen, Mark et al. The Americans: New Art (exhibition catalogue). London:
Barbican Gallery and Booth-Clibborn Editions. 2001 Berwick, Rachel et al.
2000
The Greenhouse Effect (exhibition catalogue). London: Serpentine Gallery.
Lieber, David and Tom Sachs. American Bricolage (exhibition catalogue).
New York: Sperone Westwater.
Tim Hawkinson (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Doug Harvey, Laura Stewart
Heon and Philip Monk. Toronto: Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
Tim Hawkinson: New Work (exhibition catalogue). London: White Cube.
1999
Baysa, Ko’an Jeff et al. Zero-G: When Gravity Becomes Form (exhibition catalogue).
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art.
Fanelli, Franco. The Venice Biennale Live: 48th Edition (exhibition catalogue).
Turin, Italy: U. Allemandi.
Harkavy, Donna and Margaret Mathews-Berenson. Head to Toe: Impressing the Body
(exhibition catalogue). Amherst, Massachusetts: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
Selected Bibliography (cont.)
1999
Tim Hawkinson: New Works (exhibition catalogue). Taura, Japan: Akira Ikeda Gallery,
AIG Exhibition/Taura.
1997
Sobel, Dean. Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century (exhibition
catalogue). Text by Marc J. Ackerman. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum.
1996
Humongolous: Sculpture and Other Works by Tim Hawkinson (exhibition catalogue).
Text by Charles Desmarais. Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center.
Levin, Kim. The Scream: Borealis 8, Nordic Fine Arts 1995–1996 (exhibition catalogue).
Helsinki: Nordiskt Konstcentrum.
Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves (exhibition catalogue). Escondido, California:
California Center for the Arts Museum
Tim Hawkinson: Ahi Ikmnostw (exhibition catalogue). Interview by Jay Belloli.
Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts.
1995
Beyond 15 Minutes (exhibition catalogue). Spokane, Washington: Cheney Cowles
Museum.
Gaiter, Colette and Marilu Knode. Veered Science (exhibition catalogue). Huntington
Beach, California: Huntington Beach Art Center.
Moses, Myrella. In the Black (exhibition catalogue). Irvine, California: Irvine Fine Arts
Center.
Shaw, Reesey. California In Three Dimensions (exhibition catalogue). Escondido,
California: California Center for the Arts Museum.
1994
Tim Hawkinson (exhibition catalogue). Text by David DiMichele. Orange, California:
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University.
1991
Tim Hawkinson (exhibition catalogue). Lund, Sweden: Anders Tornberg Gallery.
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