Tim Roda has a BFA from Pennsylvania State University (2002) and an MFA from the University of Washington (2004), both in ceramics. His work is in the collections of Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria; Gaia Collection, Turin, Italy; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL. His work is also part of numerous private collections. Roda lives and works in New York.

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December 13, 2023

Visual Art Source

Tim Roda, "Vantage Points"

by Matthew Kangas

March 2, 2012

The Seattle Times

Primal meets parody in Tim Roda photo show at Greg Kucera

by Michael Upchurch

April 2008

Modern Painters

Introducing Tim Roda

by Dan Torop

January, 2010

ARTFORUM

Tim Roda at Daniel Coney Fine Art

by Emily Hall

“The black in Tim Roda's black and white photographs is inky, saturated, and absolute, and the whites are moony, stark, and often, although not always, provided by intense spotlights. Within these atmospheric extremes Roda stages tableaux reminiscent of myths, fables, fairy tales, and parables, often starring his son Ethan, and using a mixture of intensive props, costumes, and prosthetics to create a whatever's-at-hand aesthetic--so that his stage is cluttered with bits of wood, wire, string, and wallpaper, a sort of art-studio noir. The images in his recent exhibition "Family Matters" (all titled Untitled followed by a number, and made within the past four years) are echoes of tales of ill-favored fathers and sons, of antiheroes and their sidekicks: the father slaughtering a papier-mache cow while the son, wearing a crown and cradling a lamb in his arms, calls to someone off to the side; the father seemingly suspended from the wall in some sort of full body breathing apparatus while the son lounges, bored, in a chair; the two of them in serene silhouette, under the translucent wings of a windmill….”

Friday, January 27, 2006

Special to The Seattle Times

Family participates in compelling images

by Gayle Clemans

In your family photographs, there are probably lots of smiling faces, some vacation scenes, kids playing and important family events. In Tim Roda's photographs of his family, there are hints of danger, layers of meaning, fragmented narratives and a collision between fact and fiction. Roda's recent large-scale, black-and-white photographs, on view at Greg Kucera Gallery, are beautiful and alarming….”

January 19-25, 2006

THE STRANGER

Father Knows Best - Tim Roda Photographs His Family

by Jen Graves

“Tim Roda's latest photographs are hot, muscular, witty, and can't be trusted. They push you around and then apologize. They promise you everything but keep the best of the secrets. Nearly every time they say something serious, they were only kidding. I don't like them. I do love them. And so do a lot of other people, because they're going like crazy at Greg Kucera Gallery, the little red "sold" dots piling up salaciously next to their untitled titles….”

January 25-31, 2006

The Seattle Weekly

Tim Roda Photographs

by Suzanne Beal

“…Spanning generations with a single flash, Roda makes his own history.”

Portrait of a Family Snapshot
by Carrie E.A. Scott

“…That Roda's images pivot back and forth between salient truths garnered from the memory of a child and the life his family is now living is testament to his fearless subject. Using a truly universal theme "the family" Roda captures a painful but poignant truth: We all spend a great deal our adult lives trying to make sense of what happened in our youth and, indeed, we use the families we make as adults to reprocess the things we went through as children. In short, Roda's work uses the family he has made to sort through the undigested moments of a family that made him.”

Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Seatle Post-Intelligencer
In Seattle Galleries: Roda's pictures move the heart and soul
by Regina Hackett

August 12 - August 18, 2004
The Stranger
Hell Is for Children: Tim Roda's Family Matters
by Nate Lippens

Friday, August 20, 2004

The Seattle Times: Visual Arts
THOUGHT-PROVOKING IMAGINARY WORLDS AT GREG KUCERA GALLERY
by Matthew Kangas