Biography

Timothy Harrier (b. Santa Monica, California), operates like a rogue cartographer of contemporary art—mapping, dismantling, and reconstructing visual language across painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and film. Over five decades, he has remained defiantly unpinned, an artist in constant flux, refusing the stasis of a signature style. His work lives in the space where abstraction and representation wrestle, collide, and—sometimes—momentarily agree to coexist.

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Trained at the Herron School of Art and later refining his printmaking at the revered Tamarind Institute, Harrier emerged with a relentless curiosity and a practiced hand. His influences are broad yet never derivative: Renaissance draftsmanship, the austere precision of photography, the audacity of Abstract Expressionism—all fractured and reassembled through his own idiosyncratic lens. His pieces don’t just sit on a wall; they challenge, provoke, demand that you return and look again.

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Harrier’s work is about process as much as it is about result. Look closely, and you’ll find the evidence: ghosted lines, overpainted gestures, the archaeology of an artist unafraid of revision. His canvases can vibrate with raw, almost furious energy, brushstrokes slashing and scraping their way toward something just beyond the surface. His photographs, meanwhile, are scalpel-sharp, their eerie precision forcing us to reckon with the strange dissonance between what we see and what we think we see.

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This is an artist who moves through mediums like a method actor inhabiting different roles—never imitating, always becoming. One moment he is in pursuit of the ephemeral, the next, the hyper-real. But through it all, there is a unifying thread: a deep and insatiable engagement with the mechanics of seeing. Harrier’s work pulses with the tension between spontaneity and control, presence and absence, material and idea.

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Critics and collectors alike have been drawn to his ability to distill something essential from the chaos—something urgent, something that feels like it matters. His work acknowledges the past, nods to it, but only as a springboard for pushing forward. There is no nostalgia here, only propulsion.

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To engage with Harrier’s art is to step into an ongoing conversation, one without easy resolution. He asks us to look harder, think deeper, and—above all—stay present. Because in the ever-shifting terrain of contemporary art, Timothy Harrier is not merely making work. He is making us see.

 

EDUCATION:

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Harrier studied art at Herron School of Art, Indiana University, Purdue University, and the Tamarind Institute.

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NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

 

• 2025 - Paris Photo Days -ART-ICON, Exhibition Sex and Politics, Paris France

• 2025 - Jean Cocteau Cinema -NMSA-The Story About a School’s Becoming, Santa Fe, NM

• 2025 - Contemporary Art Center - Journey of Healing: The Trauma-Informed Power of Art Exhibition, Cincinnati

• 2025 - Santa Fe International Film Festival: NMSA-The Story About A School’s Becoming

• 2025 - Eisele Gallery / LINNcinnati - Group Exhibition, The Figure in    Monochrome, Cincinnati

• 2025 - FHLB Gallery - Reclaimed Roots Exhibition, Indianapolis, IN

• 2025 - The Contemporary Dayton, Biennial Group Exhibition; Mike      Goheen Memorial Award, Dayton, Ohio

• 2025 - Cincy Nice Gallery Cinciannti, As Told By Humans Exhibition,    Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2025 - LinnCincinanti Gallery - The Figure in Monochrome -A Group    Art Exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2025 - Rencontres d'Arles - ART-ICON Exhibition 2025, Arles, France

• 2025 - Art Enclave - Group Show ‘Beyond Boundaries’ Mason, Ohio

• 2025 - Pop Revolution Gallery - Group Show ‘Amazing Visions’,            Mason, Ohio,

• 2024 - ART-ICON - ‘Corporeality’ Exhibition, Paris, France

• 2024 - FOTOFOCUS Biennial - ‘In Pursuit of Empathy’ ABB Gallery,    Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2024 - Eisele Fine Art Gallery - ‘Shamans & Spirit Guides’, Solo          Show, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2023 - FOTOFOCUS Biennial - ‘Backstories’ Art Beyond Boundaries    Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2023 - ABB GALLERY -  ‘Sweet 16’ Group Show, Cincinnati, Ohio

• 2022 - FOTOFOCUS Biennial - ABB Gallery, On The Line, Cincinnati,  Ohio

• 2022 - ABB GALLERY - Group Show, Cincinnati, Ohio

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Other Venues

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Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM, F-Space Gallery in Santa Ana, the I.D.E.A. in Santa Monica, Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, Solo Show at Eisele Gallery of Fine Art, Cincinnati, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, The MINT Gallery in Atlanta, Atlas Galleries Chicago,

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COLLECTIONS & INSTITUTIONAL RECOGNITION

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• The Contemporary Dayton: Mike Goheen Memorial Award for Emerging Photographers September 2025

• New Mexico History Museum

• New Mexico Museum of Art

• Indianapolis Museum of Art

• Santa Fe International Film Festival

• JP Morgan Chase

• PNC Bank

• The Joule Hotel (Dallas, TX)

• Hotel Riu Palace Baja California

• HALL Arts Hotel

• The ARIA Resort & Casino

• The Oppenheim Group Los Cabos, Mexico

• Esperanza, Auberge Resorts, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico & Los Angeles

• Palms Casino Resort

• The Phoenician, Scottsdale

• Madeline Hotel, Auberge Resorts

• The St. Regis Mexico City

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