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Tim Brawner, hailing from the Midwest and educated at Yale, produces a practice of painting that mines the space between terror and horror, between the uncanny and the grotesque, between satire and sardonic sincerity. Borrowing from a bricolage of cultural iconography, Brawner’s works utilize the idiom of illustration and logic of cartooned cinematics culled through a process of “trolling of the trash stratum of culture” as Brawner states, in order to reveal to the viewer an idiomatic menagerie of quasi-mythological nightmare forms, replete with mirthful laughter as much as the macabre.
Tim Brawner (b. 1991, Omaha, Nebraska) received an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2020. Exhibitions include Zang Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; PAGE (NYC), New York; Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT; Ashes On Ashes, New York; Yale Painting & Printmaking MFA, Galerie Perrotin; Papa Projects, Minneapolis, MN; Union Pacific, London; Unit London, London; Primary, Miami, FL. Brawner will have his first solo exhibition with Management in 2023.
Tim Brawner, Selfish, Little, 2022
Tim Brawner, Excerpts from Mercury (blue), 2022
Tim Brawner, Excerpts from Mercury (yellow), 2022
Tim Brawner, Excerpts from Mercury (green), 2022
Tim Brawner, Selfish, Little, 2022
Tim Brawner, Paperclip, 2022
Tim Brawner, Blue Bird, 2022
Tim Brawner, Holosint, 2022
Tim Brawner, Nyctalops, 2022
Tim Brawner, Rumo, 2022
EDUCATION
2020 Yale School of Art, MFA
2014 Nebraska Wesleyan University, BFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Managment, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2023
NADA, New York, NY
2019
Sometime Come the Mother, Sometime the Wolf, Union Pacific, London
2017
PAGE NYC, NADA Projects, New York, NY
2016
Untitled, PAGE (NYC), New York, NY
2014
Lee, Elder Gallery, Lincoln, NE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
OMGWTF, Primary Projects, Miami, FL
No Fear In Trying, Unit London, London
Companions, Union Pacific, London
Urgent, Papa Projects, Minneapolis, MN
2020
Philip Seibel, Aks Misyuta, Tim Brawner, Et AL: Brook Hsu & WSCHOD: Adam Shiu-Yang Shaw, Union Pacific, London
Yale Painting & Printmaking MFA, Galerie Perrotin, New York, NY
C.H.A.D., Ashes On Ashes, New York, NY
Only When You’re Called, Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT
2016
Three Rooms, GalleryELL, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, PAGE (NYC), New York, NY
2015
Triple Monster, August Zang Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2020/21 Viewing Program, The Drawing Center
2019 Dumfries House, Royal Drawing School
2013 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Art