About Tim Kent (b.1975)
Tim Kent's work engages with issues related to power in art and history, global infrastructures and social relations.
"Tim Kent is an artist deeply cognizant of the relationship between art and power. From representations of gods and kings to the invention of spatial ordering systems like the perspective grid... and knowingly interferes with them, destabilizing the authority of the grid with suggestions of the metaphysical, the irrational, and the uncanny. ..."
~Excerpt from the catalog essay Enfilade by Lee Hallman
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Select Solo Exhibitions:
2024 2024 Histories in Flux, JD Malat Gallery, London, UK
2023 Chronos & Kairos, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, TR
Possession Pt.I, Pilevneli Yalikavak, TR
2022 Between the Lines, Hollis Taggart Gallery, NYC
2021 Vagaries of Precision, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, CA
2020 Enfilade, Slag Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Dark Pools and Data Lakes, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Tim Kent, Kunstverein Vierheim, Viernheim, DE
2016 Terra Infirma, Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Tim Kent, VOLTA, New York, NY
2015 A World After Its Own Image, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Temporal Strata, VOLTA, Basel. SZ
2013 The Gambit, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 This We Believe curated by Alice Gray-Stites, 21st Century Museum Hotels, Louiseville, KY
2023 Artweeks Artekuler, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Contemporary Istanbul. Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
Of the Past and Present, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York,
Land of Honey curated by Emann Odufu, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Digital Combines, Honor Fraser Gallery, LA
2021 Reunion, Hollis Taggart Gallery Southport, Southport, CT /
PILEVNELI x KÖNIG, Kaplankaya, TR, Artweeks Artekuler, Istanbul, TR, CPNTEMPORARY ISTANBUL 21, Istanbul, TR
Abstrakshn, Patrick Mikhail Gallery. Montreal, CA
2020 Figure as Form, Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, NY
Artweeks@Akaretler, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, TR
2019 Art Now 2019, Hearst Foundation, New York, NY
Structures of Power, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, CA
2017 Art Now 2017, Hearst Foundation, New York, NY
Kunstverein Worms, Worms, DE
ART@SAP Foundation, SAP Foundation, Walldorf, DE
2015 Artmix, Boulder MoCA, Boulder, CO
2014 Tim kent and Tirtzah Bassel, VOLTA 10, Basel, SZ
2013 A Pile of Clowns, Centotto Galleria, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Whitney Museum GREY AREA Instagram Project Studio Party, New York, NY
2010 Good Vibrations, MK Gallerie, Rotterdam, NL
Among Darkened Woods, Factory Fresh, Brooklyn, NY
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Pandemonium Gallery, Brooklyn,
2009 Gallery Benoit, Boston, MA
Wild Garden Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Momento Mori, The Artists Network, New York, NY
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Petworth, UK
2005 (T)Here Galleria Na Solyanke, Moscow, RU
Flux Project, Moncrieff-Bray Gallery, Petworth, UK
Reclamation, West Dean College, West Dean, UK
2004 Death to The Fascist Insect that Preys on the Life of the People, TAG Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Small Works Show, Washington Square Galleries New York University, New York, NY
What the Whitney Don't Know, TAG Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Press/Publications
2024 Estorick, Alex. “Tim Kent: Histories in Flux” ArtReview Summer Issue, June 2024 [ill.]
Motodieva, Joanna. “You Don’t Rebuild History, You Modify it”: Tim Kent ‘Histories in Flux’ At
JD Malat Gallery.” FETCH Magazine, May 23rd, 2024 [ill.][online]
Moffitt, Will. “Abstract Ideas: Tim Kent’s ‘Histories in Flux’ on View at JD Malat Gallery”
Mayfair Times, May 8th 2024. [ill.] [online]
“Tim Kent Disrupts Traditional Depictions of the Interior Space in his Enchanting Exhibition at
JD Malat Gallery” ArtDaily, May 6th 2024. [ill.][online]
2023 Zeller, Robert. “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting” Monacelli Press,
2023
Odufu, Emann. “Land of Honey” Catalogue Essay, Leila Heller Gallery 2023
2022 Ryan, Gary. “Tim Kent: Between the Line at Hollis Taggart” White Hot Magazine, July 2022
[ill,] [online]
Corwin, William “Between the Lines: An interview with Tim Kent” Brooklyn Rail, July 2022
Rimbert, Pierre. “Quelle Coalition Face au Bloc Bourgeois?” Le Monde- diplomatique,
February 2022 [ill.]
Caws, Mary Ann. “ Tim Kent: Between the Lines” Catalogue Essay, Hollis Taggart 2022
2021 Various. “Technology” Lapham’s Quarterly, Winter 2021[ill.)
2020 Corwin, William. “Tim Kent: Enfilade” The Brooklyn Rail, August 1st [ill.] [online]
Endeweld, Marc. “Emmanuel Macron and the Deep State” Le Monde- diplomatique,
September 1st [ill.]
2018 Wagner, Virginia. “The Matrix: Tim Kent at Slag Gallery” Artcritical, October 4th [ill.] [online]
Corwin, Will. “Tim Kent: Dark Pools and Data Lakes at Slag Gallery”
McVey, Kurt. “Tim Kent Paints a New Perspective at Slag Gallery in Brooklyn" QuietLunch,
September 21st [ill.] [online]
2017. Wilder, Shelby. "Tim Kent- A Man and his Madness" Candid Magazine April 12th [ill.]
[online]
2016 Katz, Andrew. “Scenes from Pulse Miami” New American Paintings, December 4th [ill.]
[online]
D’Agostino, Paul. “Armory Week 2016: A Pile of Great,” Brooklyn Magazine, March 11th [ill.]
[online]
Jeffery, Jocelyn. “The Abstract Geometric World of Tim Kent,” Huffington Post, March 8th
[ill.] [online]
Kelly,Brian P. “Armory Week Round-Up,” New Criterion, March 4th. [ill.] [online]
Larkin, Daniel. “Dreamscapes for the 21st Century,” Hyperallergic, March 4th. [ill.] [online]
2015 McVey, Kurt. “Tim Kent - A World After Its Own Image”, Creem Magazine, February [ill.]
[online]
2014 Panero, James. “Gallery Chronicles”, New Criterion, April 14th [ill.] [online]
Kelly, Brian P. “The Other Fairs”, New Criterion, March 13th [ill.] [online]
Nicholson, Louise. “Tim Kent: A Room of His Own,” Fine Art Connoisseur, March 15th. [ill.]
[online]
Kobe, Stefan. “Knappe Kunst bei Freunden”, Art Magazine Online March 7th. [ill.] [online]
2013. La Rocco, Ben. “Paintings at 56 Bogart”, Brooklyn Rail, November 5th. [ill.] [online]
D'Agostino, Paul. “The Measure: 4 Art Exhbits You Need to See” L Magazine, October [ill.]
[online]
2012 Redd, Miles. Miles Redd’s Big Book of Chic, Assouline, 2012.
Schafer III, Gil. The Great American House, Rizzoli 2012
2010 Maitland, R.J. “Tim Kent: Painter Explores Rich Terrain of Interior Façade”, Flaunt Magazine,
December issue.
2010 King, Cynthia. “The Best of Tradition: Miles Redd Interiors & Gil Shafer Architect, A Classic
Country House with a Colorful Twist”, Elle Décor, November issue.
2009 Sutton, Benjamin. “Against Chelsea: A DIY Art Scene Grows in Brooklyn” L Magazine May
12th [ill.] [online]
Short, Aaron. “Artist Tim Kent Freshens Up”, New York Post, September 22nd
Rywalt, Chris. “All That is Solid”, Crywalt Review [ill.] [online]
2007 Winters, Edward. Aesthetics and Architecture, Continuum Press 2007
2003 Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review:Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys on the Life of the
People", New York Times, June 25th