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.

EDUCATION

2004
Master of Fine Arts Program (Ceramics) University of Washington

2002
Bachelor of Fine Art Degree (Ceramics) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

2001
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts with Arthur Gonzalez, Kiki Smith Scholarship

ONE–PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2018
Strickly Functional: Ceramic Vessel as Camera, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA

2015
Hidden Father, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY

2014
An Overview of Work, Kimura Gallery, University of Anchorage, AK

2012
The Butcher's Block, Nasim Weiler Contemporary, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
An Overview of Works by Tim Roda, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington

2011
Cooperations Ferenbalm-gurbrustation, Karlsruhe, Germany

2010
Games of Antiquities Gasser Grunert, New York, NY
Famiglia Lavenderia / Family Laundry Angell Gallery, Toronto Canada

2009
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York

2008
Photographs – Art Agents Gallery – Hamburg, Germany (May 28)
Photographs – Ferenbalm–Gurbrustation – Karlsruhe, Germany (January)

2007
Family Album — Gasser Grunert – New York, NY (October 9)
Limited Edition, Chashama Artist Residence Program – Harlem, NY
Family Matters, Charleston Heights Art Center Gallery – Las Vegas, NV
Family Album, Museum of Contemporary Photography – Chicago, IL

2006
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc., New York, NY
Collaborations: Photographs by Tim Roda, Ohio State University, Newark, OH
Sculpture, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2005
Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
NCECA, The American Dime Museum, Baltimore
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Klemens Gasser Tanja Grunert Inc., New York, NY

2004
Timothy Roda, Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
Family Album, The Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA

2003
Reverberation, UC Gallery, University of Montana, Missoula

2002
Adam & Art, Interactive Thesis Exhibition, Bellefonte, PA

2001
Clay Objects, Patterson Gallery, Penn State University

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Let There Be Light Contact Photo Fair, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SuperMud / FutureMud NCECA Union Project Space, Pittsburgh, PA
Postcards From The Edge, A Benefit For Visual Aids Gallery 524, New York, NY

2017
black I white + friends, Galerie Burster, Berlin, Germany
Postcards From The Edge, A Benefit For Visual Aids Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Homecoming Luis Leu, Karlsruhe, Germany

2015
Contact, Angell Gallery Toronto, Canada

2014
2nd Annual Fall Fete, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Where Are They Now, Demuth Museum, Lancaster PA
Faculty Biennial, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster PA

2013
Uncanny Congruences, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA

2012
Polish Biennale 2012, Poland
Selected Group Show, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY

2009
Artist as Performer, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX

2008
Confrontational Ceramic — Westchester Arts Council, Westchester Arts Exchange, New York

2007
Jamie Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Photography Biennial, Nine to Watch from the Pacific Northwest, Whatcom Museum Bellingham, Washington
FOTO.KUNST vorläufiger Arbeitstitel, Essl Museum – Austria, Europe
Other Artists participating: Gezeigt werden u.a. Werke von Valerie Bélin, Jean Marc Bustamente, Gregory Crewdson, Judy Dater, Elger Esser, Nan Goldin, Andreas Gursky, Mike Kelley, Marie—Jo Lafontaine, Brandon Lattu, Paul McCarthy, Miao Xiaochun, Tracey Moffat, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Sam Talor Wood.
smART Moody Gallery- Houston, TX
Harlem HOAST, Gallery 461, Harlem, NY
Summertime and the, Ferenbalm-Gurbru Station, Karksruhe, Germany
Coercive Atmospherics, D.U.M.B.O. Art Center – Brooklyn, NY

2006
Top 10, Jamie Angell Gallery – Toronto, Canada
Fascade, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
Made in Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, WA.
Sensibility, NCECA Conference, Portland, OR.
Deconstruction and Reconstruction: The Family Experience, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL

2004
The Archie Bray Foundation: Present and Past, The Clay Studio of Missoula, MT
Perchance to Dream, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
MFA Annual 2004, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
C.A.A. Northwest Regional, Jacob Lawrence Gallery Juror: Beth Sellars

2003
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Juror: Greg Kucera, University of Washington, Seattle
Young Seattle Artists, Howard House, Seattle WA
Fall Opening, Ceramic Metal Arts Building, University of Washington
Ceramic Metal Arts Building, University of Washington
Germinate, Bemis Gallery, Seattle; juried by Doug Jeck
Osmosis, Ceramic Metal Arts Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Works in Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
19th Annual Lewis–Clark Juried Art Exhibition, Lewiston, ID; juried by Junette Dahmen, Bernice Harris, Julie Hartwig, and Jane Herwegh

2002
Penn State Juried Show, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University

2001
Faces III, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
39th Annual Summer Arts Festival Exhibition of Lancaster County, Lancaster Art Gallery, PA

The Pittsburgh Clay Place, Pittsburgh PA

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, National Society of Arts and Letters, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA

2000
38th Annual Summer Arts Festival Exhibition of Lancaster County, Lancaster Art Gallery, PA

1995
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; juried by Tim Rollins and others

AWARDS

2012
Kennedy Family Fellowship, Artist in Residence University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

2008
Fulbright Full Grant

2005 - 06
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, New York City

2004
Nordstrom Recognition Award and Grant

2003
The Marsh Scholarship in Art

2001
Kiki Smith Scholarship, Full Scholarship to Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Barbara J. Gohn Award for outstanding artistic achievement

PUBLICATIONS

2004
Seattle Post–Intelligencer, WA June 11th page 18, by: Regina Hackett
Seattle Weekly, WA June 2-8, page 74 by: Andrew Engelson
The Stranger, WA May 27th by: Emily Hall
MFA Catalog, page 6 by: Jim Demetre

2003
The Seattle Times, WA December 12th by: Mathew Kangas
Montana Kaimin, MT December 5th by: Ira Sather-Olson
Ceramics Monthly December page 83
University Week, WA, January 23rd by: Kathy Sauber

2001
Lancaster New Era, PA, June 14th by: Jane Holahan “Eye Opener”

2000
Lancaster New Era, PA June 22nd “Canvassing the Creators”
The Daily Collegian, PA, John McGregor

1995
Lancaster New Era, PA, February 10th , 1995, by: David O’ Connor
Lancaster New Era, PA, February 16th , 1995, by: Diane M. Bitting “Best of the Best” Juried Show

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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