GILLES CLEMENT GALLERY
BIOGRAPHY
TIM OKAMURA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Work in Progress, Red Bird Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Love Strength and Soul, Yeelen Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Her Story, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Survey 2009-2014, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2013 This Story Has Not Yet Been Told…, The Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum, The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
2012 Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2011 Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2011 VOLTA NY, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Brooklyn Walls: hopechangedreams, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Women in White / Bushwick Walls, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2006 Urban Portraits + Brooklyn Mythology, Axis Art, Calgary, Canada
2005 Urban Portraits + Brooklyn Mythology, Delgado-Tomei Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2003 New Urban Portraits + Bricks, Locks, & Obstacles, Kanvas Gallery, NY, NY
2002 Recent Work, Northsix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Urban Portraits, The Cutting Room, New York, NY
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016 Goddess, with Barron Claiborne, Gallery Josephine, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
2015 Begin Transmission, with Chris Marshall, Beelectric Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Recent Work, with Jerome Lagarrigue, White Room, Liquid Art System, Capri, Italy
2009 Love, Strength, & Soul, with TheKidBelo, Show & Tell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2007 Brooklyn Mythology: The First Nations Cycle, with TheKidBelo, Axis Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today Exhibition, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2015 Scope Art Fair 2015, Miami, Mika Gallery, Miami, FL
2015 ACT/ART EXHIBITION, East Wing of the White House, Washington, DC
2015 Sublime: Harlem, 345 Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Urban Development, Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2016 Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 Implicit Bias, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
2015 Power, Protest, & Resistance: The Art of Revolution, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Trophy Art, Azart Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Spring Preview, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2015 Light of the Ancestors, Pepco Edison Place Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2015 The Artists Gaze: Seeing Women in the 21st Century, Sirona Fine Art, Hallandale Beach, FL
2015 CONTEXT Art Fair, White Room, Liquid Art System, New York, NY
2014 Scope Art Fair, Miami Beach 2014, Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Liquid Art System, Istanbul, Turkey
2014 CONTEXT Art Fair, Miami Beach 2014, White Room, Liquid Art System, Miami, FL
2014 Identity, Snap! Orlando, Orlando, FL
2014 Behind Narrative, One Art Space, New York, NY
2014 For the Time Being, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Fixation, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2014 MIA in MIA, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Round Zero, The Art Director’s Club, New York, NY
2013 Body Politic, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
2013 From Motion to Stillness, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL
2012 Scope Miami 2012, Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 Toronto International Art Fair, Lyons Wier Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012 The Box That Rocks, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Pulse International Art Fair, Lyons Wier Gallery, Miami, Fl
2011 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2011 Here and Now, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Pulse International Art Fair, Lyons Wier Gallery, Miami, FL
2010 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2010 The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2009 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2008 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2007 Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2007 Fall Preview, Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2006 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2005 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2005 Figuratively Speaking: Seven Painters, Delgado-Tomei Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2005 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2004 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
2004 Commissioned / Non-Commissioned, Chung-Cheng Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
2004 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2003 After Matisse / Picasso, P.S.1/MoMA, Queens, NY
2002 The Sound of Art, The Puck Building, New York, NY
2002 Fresh 2002, Artspace Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2002 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2001 Face Value: Portraits for the New Century, The Chrysler Building, New York, NY
2001 BP Portrait Awards Exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
1999 Volte Face: Portraits, 450 Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Portrait and Figurative Exhibition, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
1996 10th Anniversary Exhibition, James McMullan Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
1992 Endangered, Art Directors’ Club, New York, NY
1991 After Hours, William Mackenzie Center Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
ARTWORK APPEARING IN FILM
2015 “Urge”, Central Park Films
2014 “HEAVYWEIGHTPAINT”, Martini Films
2007 “The Hottest State”, Barracuda Films
2005 “Prime,” Stratus Films/ Universal
2004 “Jersey Girl,” Miramax
2003 “The School of Rock,” Paramount Pictures
2003 “Just Another Story”, Roxbury Pictures
2003 “Pieces of April,” InDiGent Films
2002 “Unfaithful,” 20th Century Fox
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001-2011 Adjunct Professor, Drawing and Painting: Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1999-2006 Adjunct Professor, Drawing and Design: The City College of The City University of New York, New York, NY
2006 Guest Lecturer, The Art Students’ League, New York, NY
2004 Lecturer, Master’s Study Tour, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2000 Guest Lecturer, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
AWARDS
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Red Bird Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Received Letter of Commendation from Vice President of the United States Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
2015 Honored at the White House for Contributions to Contemporary Art for Social Justice
2004 Lily Auchincloss Foundation: NYFA Chosen Fellow in Painting
2004 New York Foundation for the Arts: Fellowship in Painting
1991 Alberta College of Art Board of Governors Award
1988-90 Louise McKinney Post-Secondary Scholarship
1989 Henry Clinton Memorial Scholarship for Achievement in Visual Arts
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Uma Thurman, actress
Anabella Sciorra, actress
Bryan Greenberg, actor
Vanessa Marcil, actress
Hill Harper, actor
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, musician (“The Roots”)
Ben Younger, screenwriter/director
John Mellencamp, musician
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA
Howard Tullman Collection, Flashpoint Academy, Chicago, IL, USA
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
Toronto Congress Center, Toronto, Canada
The Hotel Arts, Calgary, Canada
Standard Chartered Bank, London, England
EDUCATION
1996-99 New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1993 M.F.A., School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1991 B.F.A., Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada