Central to Tim Enthovens drawings, paintings, prints, situations, and books is his interest in how collective ideas mediate the way we see ourselves and the world around us. Known for his idiosyncratic and humorous line drawings of mundane scenes showing figures contorted by the systems they are a part of, Enthovens work addresses how ideology manifests itself in taken-for-granted everyday experiences. But while his work reveals, it also hides, deceives, and camouflages: "digital" repetitions are tediously executed by hand; spontaneous situations turn out to be scripted. Following his engagement with psychology, animal ethics, aesthetics & morality, his works are often intuitive, emotional responses to the visual representations of these systems; psychic evaluation forms; ethical worksheets; dog-breed charts; or architectural diagrams, rendering them highly ambiguous and pregnant with emotion. Enthoven employs a range of techniques, including watercolor, acrylic, digital sketching, printing, collage, and frequently references figures from his personal life, fiction and art history. His exhibitions - ensembles of drawings and paintings - are conceptual spaces that subtly immerse viewers and creep up on them to make them complicit. In the situations that he stages as part of these shows he uses invisible theater to - much like in his drawings - take human-system interactions to their logical limits, resulting in an atmosphere of ambiguity and heightened awareness.

Tim Enthoven received an MFA in sculpture from the Yale School of Art and a BA in communication from Design Academy Eindhoven. He has had solo exhibitions in institutions like Espacio Odeon in Bogota and MU Art Space in Eindhoven, as well as in galleries like YveYANG in New York and Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam. Enthoven participated in numerous group exhibitions including The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, at The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the By Art Matters museum in Hangzhou, Antenna Space in Shanghai and TEFAF New York. He is the recipient of, amongst others, the Rene Smeets Award and the Plantin Moretus Award, as well as grants from the Mondriaan Fund and The Prins Bernhard Foundation. With his illustrations Enthoven is also a longtime contributor to the New York Times and The New Yorker. He divides his time between Amsterdam and Brasilia.


Portrait Tim Enthoven

Photo Boudewijn Bollmann



Education

MFA in sculpture, Yale School of Art
BA in communication, Design Academy Eindhoven


Solo Exhibitions

2024:
morals as material, YveYANG Gallery, New York NY., USA
2021:
House, YveYANG Gallery, New York NY., USA
2019:
Repugnant Conclusion, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL
2018:
Puertas Adentro, Espacio Odeon, Bogota, Col
2012:
The Tiny Tim, MU Artspace, Eindhoven, NL
2011:
Binnenskamers, The Bries Space, Antwerp, BE


Group Exhibitions

2023:
West Bund Art Fair, YveYANG Gallery, Shanghai, CH
Speculative Speculum, Raum mit Licht, 2023, Vienna, AUS
Spring Break Art Fair with Yve Yang Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2022:
YY OS, Gold Canopy, YveYANG, New York NY., USA
Tangerine, Tefaf NYC, Carpenters Workshop Gallery, New York NY., USA
Building & Dreaming, By Art Matter Museum, Hangzhou, CH
West Bund Art Fair, YveYANG, Shanghai, CH
2021:
Every Day Is a New Day, OoEli Art Center, Hangzhou, CH
Sexy Sex, Gallery Perchee, New York NY., USA
West Bund Art Fair, YveYANG, Shanghai, CH
2020:
Spring Break Art Show, YveYANG, New York NY., USA
Art 21, Yve Yang Gallery, Shanghai, CH
Vivace, Balcony Gallery, Lissabon, PT
2019:
West Bund Art Fair, YveYANG, Shanghai, CH
Asymmetry Rug, Grafixx Festival, Antwerp, BE
A Seeds a Star, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, SE
Untitled Art Fair, YveYANG, San Francisco, USA
Go West, Amsterdam, NL
Daddys Reading Room, Marlboro Colleges Drury Gallery, Marlboro VT, VS
2018:
Workflow, CC Sint-Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas, BE
West Bund Art Fair, YveYANG, Shanghai, CH
Daddys Reading Room, Life Lessons Garage Far Rockaway NY, USA
Losdok, Pakhuis de Wilhelmina, Amsterdam, NL
Times Square, YveYANG, New York NY., USA
2017:
I Could See The Smallest Things, Antenna Space Gallery, Shanghai, CH
Talent, West Bund Art Fair, Shanghai, CH
Language of Time, Annual Reportt, Copenhagen, DK


Awards & Grants

2023:
AFK stipend for painting
2021:
Mondrian Fund grant
2019:
Mondrian Fund grant for established artists
2015:
Fundatie van Renswoude scholarship
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds scholarship
Niemeijer Fund scholarship
Hendrik Muller Fund scholarship
Het Vreedefonds, scholarship
2014:
Fundatie van Renswoude scholarship
Niemeijer Fund scholarship
2013:
Best Book Design
2012:
Best Book Design
Plantin Moretus Award
2010:
Rene Smeets Award