TIM BEST
tim@timcbest.com * www.timcbest.com
Education
1995 University of Illinois at Chicago, Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Selected Awards
2009 Louisiana Artworks National Artist Residency
2009 Puffin Foundation Grant
2008-2009 Gallery 500x Membership
2007 Pollock-Krasner Grant: Santa Fe Art Institute Artist Residency.
2007 Top Ten Cultural Events, Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee.
2007 Rhodes College visiting artist program.
1995 Tuition award spring semester and fall semester.
1993-1995 University of Illinois at Chicago Honors College
Community Projects
2007-2008 “NOVA Projects”, Co-founded with Dan Tague, New Orleans artist registry to promote, catalogue, and exhibit New Orleans artists.
2006-2007 “Alternative Arts New Orleans”, Co-founded with Courtney Egan to open critical discourse in New Orleans to the artists and writers in the community.
Selected Solo Shows
2007 “Manufacturing Expectations, Site Specific Installation”, The Medicine Factory, Memphis, Tennessee.
2005 “Business Man”, Apt 3 Gallery, 43 Aspinwall Ave, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Selected Group Shows
2009 “Caliente” Juror José Torres-Tama, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2009 “Texas National 2009″ Juror Mel Chin, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas.
2009 “Guardrail Damage Ahead” 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2008 “Me Myself and I” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 “St Claude Collective – a Prospect.1 Biennial site” Universal Furniture Building, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 Dallas Film and Video Fest Angelika Film Center, Dallas, Texas.
2008 “Me, Myself and I” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 St. Claude Collective Exhibition A Prospect.1 Biennial Venue, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2008 500x Gallery Member’s Show “Under New Management” Annual exhibition of 500x Members Dallas, Texas.
2008 Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival Experimental category for “One Liners” video.
2008 “500x 30th Anniversary Show” 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
2007 “Identity” New Orleans Photo Alliance Curated By Deborah Luster.
2007 “Day Jobs” Three Walls Chicago, Illinois Curated by Kristin Freeman, Caroline Picard, Rachel Wakeman and Sarah Wambold.
2007 “Unusual Suspects” Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA Curated by Dan Tague.
2007 “Megabytes 6″ Juried screening Contemporary Arts Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
2007 “The ‘I’ Show” New Orleans Digital Darkroom, New Orleans, Louisiana Juried by David Halliday.
2006 “The Human Body” New Orleans Digital Darkroom, New Orleans, Louisiana juried by David Houston, Chief Curator of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
2006 “The Virus Show” The Green Room, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Surge” The Brooklyn Lyceum, Brooklyn, New York.
2006 “Just a Perfect Day, works by Tim Best and Jillienne Buena” The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Likeness – Alternative Portraiture” Barrister’s, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2006 “Arty Gras” The Warehouse, Washington D.C.
2006 “Sustained Winds” Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana.
2005 “No Place Like Home” Giola Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2005 “All that Art” 8 New Orleans Artists showing during Jazz Fest, Fair Grinds Cafe New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 “Hydriotaphia – New Orleans Artists Design their Funeral Urns” Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2005 “New Art For a New Year” 18 New Orleans Artists at Ashe Cultural Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2004 “Mermaid Lounge Closing Bash” An Evening of performance and Video, Mermaid Lounge, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2004 “Snap to Grid” Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, California.
Lectures
2008 “ArtSpeak” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2007 “Manufacturing Expectations” Part of the Rhodes College visiting artists program, Memphis, Tennessee.
Juror
2003-2006 New Orleans Film Festival animation and experimental genres.
Gallery Affiliations
Gallery 500x, 500 Exposition Ave, Dallas, Texas, 214-828-1111 http://www.500x.org
APT 3 Gallery, 47 Aspinwall, Brookline, Massachusetts 02446 Aaron Goranson 617-739-8425
Big Top Gallery, 1638 Clio St, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Adele Borie 504-410-0207
Barrister’s Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana 70117 Andy Antipas 504-525-6246
New Orleans Center for Photographic Arts, 1927 Sophie Wright, PL. New Orleans, Louisiana 70130, Charles Megnin 504-522-3211
Registries
Nurture Art, 910 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211, 718-782-7755, http://www.nurtureart.org/
ThreeWalls, Artist Files, 119 N Peoria St #2A, Chicago, Illinois 60607, 312-432-3972, http://www.three-walls.org
Bibliography
“Constance” Publication of New Orleans Artists and Writers, 2008.
“Sustained Winds” Catalogue of the show at Acadiana Center for the Arts, 2008.
“Arresting Developments” Review of “Unusual Suspects” by Eric Brookhardt, The Gambit, July 1st issue 2007.
“Exceeding Our Expectations” Review of “Manufacturing Expectations” by Fredric Koeppel, Memphis Commercial Appeal, April 13th, 2007.
“Magic Mirrors” Review of “Just a Perfect Day” by Doug MacCash, New Orleans Time Picayune, July 7th, 2006.
“Art Recommended” Review of “Just a Perfect Day” by Eric D Brookhardt, New Orleans Gambit Weekly, July 11th, 2006.
“Show Gives Gulf Coast Land to Build On” Review of “No Place like Home” by Jenn Q Goddu, Chicago Tribune December 2, 2005.
Selected Collections
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ashley Haspel and Mitch Meyers, New Orleans, Louisiana
Aaron Goranson, Boston, Massachusetts
Steve & Joyce Goranson, Houston, Texas
John Schaefer, Los Angeles, California
Heather Weathers, New Orleans, Louisiana
References Available upon request.