Born 1947 in Akron, Ohio. Lives and work in Baltimore, Maryland.
EDUCATION
1974 MFA, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1970 BFA, Kent State University, Kent, OH
1968 Independent Study, University of the Americas, Mexico City, D. F.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Timothy App: States of Mind, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2017 Timothy App: The Lost Paintings, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD (catalog)
2015 Timothy App: Recent Paintings, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore MD
2013 Timothy App: The Aesthetics of Precision, Forty-Five Years of Painting,
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC (catalog)
Timothy App: The Aesthetics of Precision, Forty-Five Years of Works on
Paper, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2012 Threshold, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2009 The Homage Paintings, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD (catalog, essay by
Kristen Hileman)
2007 Homage, Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Alexandria, VA (catalog)
2005 A Selection of Work, 1998-2005, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
(catalog, essay by Terrie Sultan and Christopher French)
2003 District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2001 Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2000 Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 Wade Wilson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1989 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, NY
1988 A Survey of Paintings: 1968-1988, Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
(catalog, essay by William Peterson)
1987 Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1984 University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1983 Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1982 Johnson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1979 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2013 Geometry as Sign, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 The Grey Zone: Paintings and Drawings by Timothy App and Howie Lee
Weiss, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD
1995 Abstraction, with Alan Myers, York College Galleries, York College of
Pennsylvania, York, PA
1983 Mattingly-Baker Gallery, with Susan Crile, Dallas, TX
1980 Baum-Silverman Gallery, with Dennis Farber, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 From This Nature Springs, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2022 Share the Past, Create the Future: Selections from the Akron Art Museum Collection,
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
2016 Arterial Echoes, University of Missouri Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
Poetic Minimalism, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, MD, Curated by Julie Sasse
2014 Abstraction: Finding the Thread, Kaplan Gallery, VisArts, Rockville, MD
13-12 The Shape of Things: Four Decades of Painting and Sculpture, Tucson
Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2010 The 185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National
Academy Museum, New York, NY
2008 Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox
Gallery, Buffalo, NY (catalog, essay by Lilly Wei)
2007 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Platform Project Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Scott Malbaurn
Strictly Painting 6, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA, Curated by Kristen Hileman
2006 Point of View, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Shine On, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
By Any Means: Works from the National Drawing Invitationals (curated with
essay by Donald D. Perry) Traveled to J. Wayne Stark University,
University Center Galleries, College Station, TX; Perspective Gallery,
Blacksburg, VA; Art Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; Salt
Lake City Public Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Mapping the Alternative, 20th Annual Critics' Residency Program, Maryland
Art Place, Baltimore, MD (catalog, essays by Lilly Wei, Justin
Gershwin, Brooke Lampley, and Lauren Pennell)
2005 Soft Openings, American University Museum at the Katzen Center,
Washington, DC
Engaging the Structural, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY (essay by Lilly Wei)
The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
NY (catalog, essay by Lilly Wei)
2004 Sabbatical Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art,
Baltimore, MD
Conversations with the Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
03-04 Conversations: Influence and Collaboration in Contemporary Art,
(catalog, curated & essay by Barry Nemett) Traveled to: Evergreen
House, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; Delaware Center for
Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE; Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute
of Technology, Rochester, NY
2002 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN (curated by
Cynthia Thompson, catalogue essay by Faye Hirsch)
Poetic Minimalism, District Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Three Maryland Artists, Packing Shed Gallery, Washington, VA
Foyer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2001 Mixing Realities, Muzeum Okregowe W. Bydgoszcy, Bydgoszcz, Poland
Summer 2001: Prints & Drawings, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Crown Point Press and Goya-Girl Press: Selected Prints, Barbara Krakow
Gallery, Boston, MA
2000 In Good Form, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Strictly Painting III, (curated by Terrie Sultan), McLean Project for the Arts,
McLean, VA
1999 Painters Who Make Prints, traveled to University of Maryland, University
College, College Park, MD; Kennedy Museum of American Art, Ohio University,
Athens, OH (catalogue, essay by Barbara Rose)
More than Paper & Ink: Selected Prints from Goya-Girl Press, Villa Julie
College, Stevenson, MD
47th Annual Exhibition, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
That Certain Look: The Minimalist Tradition in New Mexico, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (curated by Jonathan Abrams)
Chance & Necessity (curated by Power Boothe; catalogue by Robert
Edelman), traveled to Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD; St Mary’s
College, St Mary’s City, MD; Ohio University, Athens, OH; Goya
Contemporary, Baltimore, MD; Columbia Festival for the Arts,
Columbia, MD
98-99 Chance and Necessity, (An Exhibition of Prints by Artists in the Traveling
Exhibition), Goya-Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
1998 22nd Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Eppink Art Gallery,
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS (catalog)
Sabbatical Exhibition, Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Virgin Atlantic Airways Clubhouse, Dulles International Airport, VA
Reed, Smith, Shaw, and McClay, Law Firm, Washington, DC
97-98 Not So Simple, Arts 901, Washington, DC
1997 Playing in the Dark Tower: Images from the Black Literary Landscape
(curated by Chezia Thompson), Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Summer 1997, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1996 Making Waves in the Mid-Atlantic, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1995 State of the Art, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Geometric Abstraction, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1994 Between the Sexes: How We Communicate Through the Art of Drawing,
(curated by Jay Fisher, Barbara Kornblatt, and Joyce Scott), Maryland
Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Zero Defect: The Recent Work of Timothy App & John Ruppert,
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
100 Works, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
93-94 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Albuquerque, NM
1993 Elemental Abstraction: Three Painters, Salisbury State University, Salisbury, MD
Drawings From the Permanent Collection, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
1992 Freedom of Choice, An Exhibition Sponsored by Artists for Choice,
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Common Ground, Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
New Mexico Impressions: Printmaking 1880-1990, University Art Museum,
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
The Collection: New Acquisitions, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University,
Topeka, KS
Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, NY
Linda Durham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1991 Plane Truth: Three Contemporary Abstract Artists, Mulvane Art Museum,
Washburn University, Topeka, KS (catalog, essay by Donald Bartlett Doe)
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Abstraction and Non-Objective Art, Principle Financial Group, Des Moines, IA
Harold Segelstad Collection: Selected Work, Shasta College Gallery,
Shasta College, Redding, CA
90-91 Painting Without Words, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 The Centennial Suite, lithographs by 17 artists from the University of New
Mexico, published by the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque City &
County Government Building, Albuquerque, NM
The Art of Albuquerque: A Study in Discovery, Museum Of Albuquerque,
Albuquerque, NM
Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Five New Painters (curated by Sean Sully), John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, NY
Get It on Paper: An Exhibition of Works on Paper, Linda Durham Gallery,
Santa Fe, NM
The Huntington at 25: The Gallery Collects, Selected Acquisitions, 1983-87,
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas,
Austin, TX
1987 New Mexico ’87: A Fine Arts Competition, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe,
NM (catalogue)
Uncommon Spaces, Museum of Albuquerque, NM
App, Feinberg and Hahn: Work from Leaves of Absence, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Working Small, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
Statements ’87: A Perspective on Contemporary Art in New Mexico, Fine
Arts Gallery, New Mexico State Fairgrounds, Albuquerque, NM
1985 Five from New Mexico, Fox Fine Arts Center, University of Texas, El Paso, TX
1985 Invitational Exhibition, Roswell Museum & Art Center, NM
Statements ’85: A Perspective on Contemporary Art in New Mexico, Fine
Arts Gallery, New Mexico State Fairgrounds, Albuquerque, NM
1984 Recent Acquisitions in the Museum’s Permanent Collection, Museum of
Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
Sebastian-Moore Gallery, Denver, CO
1983 The Phoenix Biennial, Phoenix Art Museum, AZ (catalog, essay by Albert Stewart)
Gensler and Associates, sponsored by Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Houston, TX
1982 Geometric Formalism in American Art, University Art Museum, University of
New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1981 Meridian Invitational, Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, University Art Museum, University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1980 Gallery Gala, Baum-Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Los Angeles Abstract Painting, traveled to University Art Museum, University
of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; University Art Gallery, University of
California, Riverside, CA (catalog, essay by Melina Wortz)
Exhibition, Albuquerque United Artists and Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Qualities of Vision, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, CA
New Faculty, Teaching Gallery, Department of Art, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM
78-79 Abstract Drawings (From L.A. and Other Places), Baum-Silverman Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
1978 Summer Faculty, Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
A Painting Show, Mt San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1978 Armory Show, traveled to: Armory for the Arts, Santa Fe, NM;
Albuquerque Public Library, Albuquerque, NM
Abstract Painting from Southern California, traveled to: Emily H. Davis Art
Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH; University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks, ND (catalog, introduction by Timothy App)
Painting in the Contemporary Mode, Mt. San Jacinto College, CA
1976 The Old and the New: Drawings by the Claremont Faculty, Libra Gallery,
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
22nd All California Juried Show, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna
Beach, CA
Southern California Works on Paper, Moreau Gallery, St. Mary's College,
Notre Dame, IN
1975 Two On Paper, Southeast Arkansas Arts & Science Center, Pine Bluff, AK
Nine LA Artists, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
1974 New Faculty, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1973 Color at Tyler, Watson Art Gallery, Elmira College, NY (catalog by Richard Schiff)
26th Annual Award Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
1972 Drawing Invitational, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
1971 Six Artists, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
1970 47th Annual Juried Exhibition, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Alston and Bird, LLP., Atlanta, GA
Art & Automation, Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Atlantic Richfield Company, La Palma, CA
Avalere Health, Washington, DC
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bernalillo County Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Canopy by Hilton Hotel Art Collection, Baltimore, MD
Cloud Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Gensler and Associates, San Francisco, CA
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Kent State University, Kent, OH
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
McDermott, Will and Emory, Washington, DC
Monash University, Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS
Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA
Registry Hotel, Dallas, TX
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
Sheppard Pratt Health System, Baltimore, MD
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Transart Foundation for Art & Anthropology, Houston, TX
The Cordish Company, Baltimore, MD
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
The Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe NM
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Westin Galleria, Houston, TX
Ziger/Snead Architects, Baltimore, MD
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AWARDS
2016 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award
2007 McLean Project for the Arts Prize, VA (Juried by Kristen Hileman)
2003 Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2000 First Prize, McLean Project for the Arts Prize, VA (Juried by Terrie Sultan)
1999 Individual Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, MD
Nominee for the 1999 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1994 Trustees Award for Excellence in Teaching, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1987 Purchase Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Faculty Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1983 Faculty Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1982 Faculty Research Grant, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1976 Mellon Study-Leave Grant, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Summer Research Grant, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1974 Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1973 Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
PUBLICATIONS
“Timothy App: The Lost Paintings,” Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, Maryland, 2017.
"Timothy App: The Aesthetics of Precision,
Forty-Five Years of Painting," Goya Contemporary, Baltimore,
Maryland, 2013.
“Embodied Line: The Recent Paintings of Carol Miller Frost,” Stephenson University, Lutherville, Maryland,
October, 2010.
“An Artists' Forum on Ad Reinhardt,” Artspace, Vol. 16, Nos. 1 and 2, January-April, 1992.
“Elen Feinberg,” Artspace, Vol. 8, No. 1, Winter 1983-84.
“Meditation on Painting,” Linda Durham Gallery Newsletter, No. 1, Fall, 1982.
“Constance Dejong,” Artspace, Vol. 5, No. 3, Summer, 1981.
“Karl Benjamin: Recent Paintings,” Catalog Essay, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 1978.
“Calculated Wit: The Recent Sculpture of David Furman,” David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1977.
“Six Approaches to Formalist Abstraction,” Artweek, Vol. 8, No. 10, March 5, 1977.
“The Gentle Rigor of Patsy Krebs,” Artweek, Vol. 7, No. 23, June 19, 1976.
“Chromatic Explorations,” (Paintings of Karl Benjamin), Artweek, Vol. 6, No. 38, November 8, 1975.
“Gallery as Studio,” Artweek, Vol. 6, No. 37, November 1, 1975.
“Four Claremont Painters,” Artweek, Vol. 6, No. 27, August 9, 1975.
LECTURES
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gallery Talk
on the Exhibition, “Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection,” December 18, 2009.
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, Critics’ Residency Program, Gallery Talk, June 21, 2006.
The Art Seminar Group, Baltimore Museum of Art, Studio Visit and Lecture, October 2005, 2008.
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, Pre-College Lecture, July 2004, 2002, 2001.
Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas, Art Forum Lecture Series, March 11, 1998.
York College of Pennsylvania, York, Pennsylvania, “The Architect and the Poet,” October 18, 1995.
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, Gallery Talk with John Ruppert for “Zero Defect,” May 28, 1994
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, “The Architect and The Poet,” June 2, 1993. Cranbrook Academy of Art,
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, February, 1992. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland,
March, 1989.
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November, 1985.
“Paint,” Panel Discussion (with Richard Hogan, Eugene Newman, Frank McCollough, and Margaret Farrell),
Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1982.
“Light in Art,” Department of Physics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1982.
“Light and Color in Painting,” Interdisciplinary Course, Department of English, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1982.
“Phenomena of Color,” Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1980.
“Tonality in Painting,” Department of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1979, 1980 and 1981.
Art Department, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, March, 1978.
Department of Art, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 1978.
“A Painting Show,” Panel Discussion (with Karl Benjamin and Dan Cytron), Mount San Antonio College, Walnut,
California, 1978.
“The Role of the Practicing Arts in the Liberal Arts College,” Panel Discussion, Pomona College, Claremont,
California, 1976.
“Classicism in Contemporary Art,” Scripps College, Claremont, California, 1976.
“Symmetry in Contemporary Art,” Symmetry Conference, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, 1976.
“Problems of the Artist-Teacher,” Panel Discussion, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1974.
CURATED AND JURIED EXHIBITIONS
The Art League’s 60th Anniversary Color Field Awards 2014. Juror.
Bethesda Painting Awards, Bethesda, Maryland, 2008. Juror.
Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia, New Members Exhibition, March, 2004.
Mattawoman Crook Art Center, Marbury, Maryland, “Sixth Annual Juried Exhibition,” (June 2 – July 9, 2000).
The Art League, Alexandria, Virginia, “April All-Media Membership Show,” (April 5 – May 1, 2000).
Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland, “The Poetry of Paint,” (A Juried Exhibition),
November 2-28, 1999.
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, “On Site/In Sight: A Drawing Exhibition.” June 8 – July 3, 1999.
(Co-curated with Allyn Massey.)
Teaching Gallery, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, “Paint,” March, 1987.
Fine Arts Gallery, New Mexico State Fairgrounds, Albuquerque, New Mexico, “A Juried Exhibition,” August, 1986.
Teaching Gallery Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico, “Works on Paper from
Los Angeles,” April, 1979.
Emily H. Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, (November 7- December 3, 1977); University of
North Dakota, Grand Fork, North Dakota, (January 31- February 17, 1978); “Abstract Painting from
Southern California.” Catalog.