Central to Tim Enthoven's drawings, books and installations are psychological tests, dog-breed charts and architectural diagrams that he appropriates to construct narratives drawn from his own life. His work depicts individuals contorted by the systems they inhabit and addresses how ideology manifests in our everyday lives. Enthoven creates meticulously hand-rendered drawings and watercolors, combining them with etching, digital collage and sculpture. Recently, he has focused on an autobiographical project based on his experiences in a group home, developing a series of watercolors into installations and books.
Tim Enthoven is a Dutch visual artist who holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art. Enthoven has had solo exhibitions at the By Art Matters Museum in Hangzhou, Espacio Odeon in Bogota and galleries including YveYANG Gallery in New York and Fons Welters Gallery in Amsterdam. His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions including The Lisbon Architecture Triennale, The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Antenna Space (Shanghai), and TEFAF New York. Enthoven is the recipient of the Rene Smeets Award and Plantin Moretus Award, and grants from the Mondriaan Fund and The Prins Bernhard Foundation. As an illustrator, he is a longtime contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker. Enthoven lives and works in Amsterdam.
Education
2014 - 2016 Yale School of Art, Sculpture MFA, New Haven, CT, USA
2004 - 2010 Design Academy, BA hons, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025:
Best Day Of My Life, By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, CH
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, Colombia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Art in General Benefit Auction, Art in General, New York, NY, USA
West Bund Art Fair (with YveYANG Gallery), Shanghai, China
2023
Speculative Speculum, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Austria
West Bund Art Fair (with YveYANG Gallery), Shanghai, China
Spring Break Art Fair (with YveYANG Gallery), New York, NY, USA
2022
Building & Dreaming, By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, China
YY OS, Gold Canopy, YveYANG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Tangerine, TAFAF New York (with Carpenters Workshop Gallery), New York, NY, USA
2021
Every Day Is a New Day, OoEli, Hangzhou, China
Sexy Sex, Gallery Perchee, New York, NY, USA
2020
Screeners, Helena Anrather Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Vivace, Balcony Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
Spring Break Art Show (with YveYANG Gallery), New York, NY, USA
2019
A Seeds a Star, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Daddys Reading Room, Marlboro Colleges Drury Gallery, Marlboro, VT, USA
Untitled Art Fair (with YveYANG Gallery), San Francisco, CA, USA
2018
Times Square, YveYANG Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Workflow, CC Sint-Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
West Bund Art Fair (with YveYANG Gallery), Shanghai, China
2017
I Could See The Smallest Things, Antenna Space Gallery, Shanghai, China
Language of Time, Annual Reportt, Copenhagen, Denmark
Selected Collections
By Art Matters Museum, Hangzhou, China
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
MACA Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Collection Li Lin, Hangzhou, China
Raad voor Cultuur, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Selected Awards & Grants
2024
Mondriaan Fund Basic Grant
2023
AFK, one year stipend
2019
Mondriaan Fund Grant Proven Talent
2014
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds grant
Niemeijer Fonds grant
2013
Best Book Design
2012
Plantin Moretus Award
VPRO Debuutprijs
2010
Rene Smeetsprijs