Tim Bavington | Resume

Born in 1966 in England; Lives in Las Vegas

Education
1999 M.F.A. University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1990 B.F.A. Art Center College of Art and Design

One-Person Exhibitions
2021
The End Has No End (for Dave Hickey)

2010
Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA
Decade, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
PULSE New York: Contemporary Art Fair, Public Installation Project, New York, NY
New Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2009
Up in Suze's Room, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

2008
There We Were, Now Here We Are, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Hello, Hello, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, South Korea

2007
So it Goes………, Eleven Fine Art, London, UK Recent Paintings, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Modern Masters From The Chris Burmeister Collection, Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Painting <=> Design (catalogue), Peggy Phelps and East Galleries, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA

2006
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, FRA

2005
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Space Gallery, London, UK Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR Greg Kucera, Seattle, WA

2002
James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Pullium Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

2002
James Kelly Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2001
Feigen Contemporary, New York

2000
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Angstrom Gallery, Dallas

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010
Intervals, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2009
Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Bowie, Clark and Faria, Toronto, Canada
I Want You To Want Me, Marx & Zavattero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small is Beautiful, Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, South Korea
The Armory Show, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY

2008
Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From The Neon Homeland, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Art Basel, Jack Shainman Gallery, Miami, FL

2007
Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From The Neon Homeland, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Sound Waves - The Art of Sampling, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

2005
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Dating Data, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
The Raw and the Cooked, Claremont Center for the Arts, Claremont, CA
NADA Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL Rock, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Art Cologne, Mark Moore Gallery, Cologne, Germany Pink, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003
Patricia Faure Gallery, Structure, Santa Monica, CA
Heather Marx Gallery, Flair, San Francisco

2002
Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art, Neo Painting, Kwangu-City, Korea, (catalog)
Sala Diaz, Live Like There's Yes Tomorrow, San Antonio, TX
Portland Museum of Art, New in Town, curated by Bruce Guenther, Portland OR
Mark Moore Gallery, Western States, Santa Monica, CA
Neue Galerie, The Magic Hour: Dir Konvergenz von Kunst Und Las Vegas, Kunstlerhaus, Burgring
James Kelly Contemporary, (Las) Vegans, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Dave Hickey
Scott White Gallery, Eye Candy, San Diego

2000
Mark Moore Gallery, Paint, American Style, Santa Monica, CA
The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, New American Talent: The Fifteenth Exhibition, Austin, curated by David Pagel (catalog)
University of South Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Ultra lounge, Tampa, Florida, curated by Dave Hickey (catalog)

1999
Angstrom Gallery, Optopussy, Dallas, Texas, curated by David Quadrini
Action Space, Unctuous Youth, Los Angeles, California, curated by Steven Criqui
Contemporary Arts Collective, Bi-Design, Las Vegas, curated by Almond Zigmond

1998
DiverseWorks Artspace, Ultra lounge, Houston, Texas, curated by Dave Hickey (catalog)
Post, 1- 15, Los Angeles, California, curated by Jeffrey Vallance

Selected Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
CAA (Creative Artists Agency), Beverly Hills, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Fredrick R. Weisman Foundation Collection, CA
General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Marnell Corrao Corporation, Las Vegas, NV
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Neiman Marcus Corporation, Dallas, TX
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Progressive Insurance Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Summlung Mondstudio, Hamburg, Germany
Thomas & Mack Co., Las Vegas, NV
United Talent Agency, Beverly Hills, CA
Vivendi Universal, Los Angeles, CA

Catalogs
New American Paintings – Juried Exhibition in Print #42. (2002). Curated by Michael Auping. Boston: The Open Studios Press.
Neo Painting. (2002). Quangiu–City: The Young Eun Museum of Contemporary Art. Farquharson, Alex (Ed.). (2001).
The Magic Hour, The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas. Graz: Neue Galerie.
Hickey, Dave. (Essay). (2001). “Tim Bavington and Yek.” (Show announcement). New York: Feigen Contemporary.
New American Talent 15. (2000). Essay by David Pagel. Dallas: Texas Fine Art Association.
CAA Themes Out of School. (2000). Essay by David Pagel. Beverly Hills: Creative Artists Agency.
Ultralounge, The Return of Social Space (with cocktails). (1998). Essays by Dave Hickey and David Pagel. Houston: DiverseWorks.

Bibliography
Collins, Tom. (2002, November 22). “Neon in the Mist: Living in Las Vegas Colors Work of London-born Artist.” Journal North, Arts section, pp 5-6.
Indyke, Dottie. “Las Vegans,” ArtNews, May 2002, p. 176.
King, Sarah S. “Sin City Sampler”, Art in America, Report From Santa Fe, July, 2002, p 51 – 53, with images.
Knight, Christopher. “Tim Bavington Sprays Exuberant Visual Music”, Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2002, p 28.
_____. “Bavington’s Sophisticated and Savvy Abstracts Exude Joy”, Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2000, p F19.
Miles, Christopher. “Tim Bavington at Mark Moore Gallery”, ArtForum, November, 2002, p 192.
Machida-Gaikotsu, Atsushi. “Tim Bavington at Mark Moore Gallery”, Tenpyo (Japan), Autumn, 2002, p 40.
Odom, Michael. “‘Ultralounge,’ DiverseWorks,” Artforum, (New York) November 1998, p 119.
Pagel, David. “Aperto Las Vegas”, Flash Art, March / April 2002 p 57-59.
_____. “Tim Bavington at Mark Moore Gallery”, Art issues, September/October, 2000.
_____. “Artist on a Daring Mission,” Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2002.
Row, David. “Painting by Musical Numbers”, The Oregonian, Arts and Entertainment section, January 10, 2003, p 53.
Smith, Roberta. "Tim Bavington and Yek" The New York Times, September 28, 2001. Show at Feigen Contemporary, NY